LIT6216 Blogs

Please explore the blogs of my classmates.



Blake: Fighting Like a Man
Herman Mann, The Female Review (1797)
 
Jen: Noise n Glory
Lydia Maria Child, “Hilda Silfverling” (1845); “Elizabeth Wilson” (1845); “Rosenglory” (1846)
 
Lesley: The Hotel Nunnery
Maria Monk, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery (1836)
 
Lindsay: Escaping Life as a Nun: the Story of Rebecca Reed
Rebecca Reed, Six Months in a Convent (1835)
 
Mark: Lucy Brewer the American Woman Warrior
[Lucy Brewer], The Female Marine (1815)
 
Ruddy: [coming soon]
Mrs. P.D. Manvill, Lucinda; or, the Mountain Mourner (1810)
 
Spencer: "Who Reads an American Book?"
John Neal, Rachel Dyer (1828)
 
Stephen: _Female Quixotism_: Research Project
Tabitha Tenney, Female Quixotism (1801)
 
Zach: Crime Narratives of "Unruly" Women
The Declaration & Confession of Esther Rodgers (1701); A Faithful Narrative of Elizabeth Wilson (1786); Life, Last Words, and Dying Confession of Rachel Wall (1789)



Original list of texts provided:

1. Jane Fenn Hoskens, The Life and Spiritual Sufferings of that Faithful Servant of Christ, Jane Hoskens, &c. (1771)
2. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
3. Martha Ballard’s Diary (1785-1812) (unpublished diary of a midwife now available online)
4. The Declaration & Confession of Esther Rodgers (1701); A Faithful Narrative of Elizabeth Wilson (1786); Life, Last Words, and Dying Confession of Rachel Wall (1789)
5. Milcah Martha Moore’s Book (unpublished commonplace book now in a modern edition edited by Karin Wulf and Catherine Blecki)
6. Herman Mann, The Female Review (1797)
7. Tabitha Tenney, Female Quixotism (1801)
8. Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Dorval; or the Speculator. A Novel, Founded on Recent Facts (1801)
9. John Davis, Captain Smith and Princess Pocahontas (1805)
10. Leonora Sansay, Laura (1809)
11. Mrs. P.D. Manvill, Lucinda; or, the Mountain Mourner (1810)
12. Rebecca Rush, Kelroy (1812)
13. [Lucy Brewer], The Female Marine (1815)
14. Nathaniel Coverly Jr., The Surprising Adventures of Almira Paul (1816)
15. John Neal, Rachel Dyer (1828)
16. Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok (1824)
17. Mary Prince/Susanna Strickland, The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave (1831)
18. Rebecca Reed, Six Months in a Convent (1835)
19. Maria Monk, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery (1836)
20. Eliza Buckminster, Naomi; or, Boston 200 Years Ago (1848)
21. Lydia Maria Child, “Hilda Silfverling” (1845); “Elizabeth Wilson” (1845); “Rosenglory” (1846) (Each of these stories is based on an historical “fallen woman”; “Rosenglory” treats the 1844 case of Amelia Norman, and one could also use newspaper accounts, editorials, and trial transcripts as primary texts for the project.)