num_pages: 103
description: A fierce and elegant plea for the rights of women.Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is bet know for his Gothic novels — Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Ormond, and Edgar Huntly — but Alcuin was his first book. The first half appeared in 1798; the second half was published posthumously, in 1815. Until now the parts have never been reunited, making this edition of Alcuin, a reproduction of the limited edition by Leonard Baskin, something more than the first significant argument for women's rights published in this country: it is the first complete edition of the first published work of America's first professional writer.
language: English
title: Alcuin: A Dialogue
titlecomplete: Alcuin: A Dialogue
ratings_count: 17
publisher: Grossman Publishers