Lucinda; Or, the Mountain Mourner

(Part of the Writing American Women Series)

by P.D. Manvill

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In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P. D. Manville's Lucinda; or the Mountain Mourner. Over the next five decades now fewer than ten printings of the novel appeared in three different states. In the book, the eponymous heroine is one of seven children left to the ailing and poverty-stricken widower Adrian Manvill. Although it is a memoir, Lucinda reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, where the heroine is seduced,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0815632088

ISBN13:9780815632085

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Syracuse University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"

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