num_pages: 149
description: The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister is the journal/writings of sixteen year old Sarah Wister's experiences during the Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania. This volume is published in a modern scholarly edition containing an introduction (with sections on biography, Quakerism and Quaker education, eighteenth-century literary Philadelphia, and Wister's literary contributions), a new transcription of the text based on the original manuscript, and comprehensive annotations. It also includes two annotated appendixes of previously unpublished the devotional journal that Wister kept from 1796-1797 and a collection of her poetry and prose.
language: English
title: The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister
titlecomplete: The Journal and Occasional Writings of Sarah Wister
ratings_count: 1
publisher: UNKNO