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Paperback Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South Book

ISBN: 0801456789

ISBN13: 9780801456787

Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South

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In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary...

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