A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams

by Gary D. Schmidt

Book Overview

In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer and to establish a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. Hannah Adams dared to enter--and in some ways was forced to enter--a sphere of literature that had, in eighteenth-century America, been solely a male province. Driven by poverty and necessity, and aided by an extraordinarily adept mind and keen sense of business, Adams...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922720
• ISBN13: 9780813922720
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher