The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in America
By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Publisher: Harper Perennial Legacy Editions
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780062356130
Subjects: Fiction; American loyalists; History
Other titles: Linwoods; "Sixty years since" in America
Description: A novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence during the American Revolution. In The Linwoods, Catharine Maria Sedgwick illuminates the American character and explores issues of civic virtue and national identity in the early republic, through the lives of two families: the Linwoods, dutiful loyalists, and the Lees, passionate revolutionaries. At the novel's heart is Isabella Linwood, a bright and independent young woman who will transform from a proud Tory to ardent Rebel, challenging not only British rule but its accepted social, economic, and political institutions, including the aristocracy, slavery, and patriarchal authority.