Lucinda; Or, The Mountain Mourner (Writing American Women),New

Lucinda; Or, The Mountain Mourner (Writing American Women),New

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In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P. D. Manvilles Lucinda; or the Mountain Mourner. Over the next five decades now fewer than ten printings of the novel appeared in three different states. In the book, the eponymous heroine is one of seven children left to the ailing and povertystricken widower Adrian Manvill. Although it is a memoir, Lucinda reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, where the heroine is seduced, abandoned, and then dies in isolation shortly after her illegitimate child is born. Mischelle B. Anthonys critical edition rescues this once popular cautionary tale from obscurity and positions it among such classic early American narratives as Charlotte Temple and The Coquette. In her introduction, Anthony sheds light on the texts multiple functions among its nineteenthcentury readership and draws attention to its unique status as a narrative written by a participant in the events.

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