Lucinda; or, The mountain mourner
Subtitle: being recent facts, in a series of letters, from Mrs. Manvill, in the state of New-York, to her sister in Pennsylvania
By: P.D. Manvill ; edited and with an introduction by Mischelle B. Anthony.
Contributors: Anthony, Mischelle B.
Edition: 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
Series: Writing American women
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780815632085
Description: "In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P.D. Manvill's Lucinda; or, The Mountain Mourner. Over the next five decades no fewer than ten printings of the book appeared in three different states. Although it is a memoir, Lucinda reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, wehre the heroine is seduced, abandoned, and then dies in isolation shortly after her illegitimate child is born ... In addition to providing insight into nineteenthpcentury reading culture, Lucinda as a historical document, provides a glimpse into one family and one community dealing with radical social and economic issues in early America."--Cover.
Notes: "First published in 1807 by W. & A. Child, Johnstown, N.Y."

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