Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Description

Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.

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Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Catharine Maria Sedgwick,Carolyn L. Karcher (Introduction by),Carolyn L. Karcher (Notes by)
Published: 11/01/1998
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780140436761
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 0.80″ H x 7.70″ L x 5.10″ W

About the Author
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) was one of the first American women authors to gain prominence. She was born in Massachusetts, where she set several of her works. She published six novels and later wrote on domestic and social issues.