Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029912584X ISBN 13: 9780299125844

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990

Synopsis

Four early American women tell their own stories:  Mary Rowlandson on her capture by Indians in 1676, Boston businesswoman Sarah Kemble Knight on her travels in New England, Elizabeth Ashbridge on her personal odyssey from indentured servant to Quaker preacher, and Elizabeth House Trist, correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, on her travels from Philadelphia to Natchez.  Accompanied by introductions and extensive notes.

"The writings of four hearty women who braved considerable privation and suffering in a wild, uncultivated 17th- and 18th-century America.  Although confined by Old World patriarchy, these women, through their narratives, have endowed the frontier experience with a feminine identity that is generally absent from early American literature."—Publishers Weekly

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth L. Banks (1870-1938) was raised on a Wisconsin farm and graduated from the Milwaukee-Downer Female Seminary to work as a part-time reporter. During her career she worked as secretary to the American ambassador in Peru, ""stunt girl,"" yellow journalist, author, investigative reporter, and freelance writer in both England and the United States. Mary Suzanne Schriber is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Writing Home and Gender and the Writer's Imagination and editor of Telling Travels. Abbey Zink is assistant professor of English at Western Connecticut State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 029912584X
• ISBN 13: 9780299125844
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Andrews William L., Kolodny Annette, Shea Daniel B., Bush Jr. Sargent, Lang Amy Schrager