Women's Early American Historical Narratives

This fascinating collection presents a rare look at women writers’ first-hand perspectives on early American history. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many women authors began to write historical analysis, thereby taking on an essential role in defining the new American Republicanism. Like their male counterparts, these writers worried over the definition and practice of both public and private virtue, human equality, and the principles of rationalism. In contrast to mal…