Rebecca Dickinson: Independence for a New England Woman

by Marla R. Miller

Book Overview

Rebecca Dickinson's powerful voice, captured through excerpts from the pages of her journal, allows colonial and revolutionary-era New England to come alive. Dickinson's life illustrates the dilemmas faced by many Americans in the decades before, during, and after the American Revolution, as well as the paradoxes presented by an unmarried woman who earned her own living and made her own way in the small town where she was born. Rebecca Dickinson:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813347653
• ISBN13: 9780813347653
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"