Description
The first complete collection of Sukey Vickery's writing, consisting of the epistolary novel "Emily Hamilton", poetry, letters, a diary fragment, and a few responses to her work
About the Author
Sukey Vickery was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, on June 12, 1779. At age twenty-two she became a published author when her poems appeared in the Massachusetts Spy. Two years later her novel Emily Hamilton appeared in print. After her marriage in 1804 she ceased to publish but continued to write. She died at the untimely age of forty-two. Scott Slawinski is an assistant professor of English at Western Michigan University and the author of Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy, and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review.
Reviews
"Emily Hamilton . . . adds to our knowledge of early republican novels while opening lines of inquiry into established ideas about American realism and American women's writing."-Jill Kirsten Anderson, Legacy
"The careful editing and cogent and engaging introduction to this volume will guide students and scholars alike, thus helping Sukey Vickery's work to receive the attention that it deserves." -Amy E. Winans, Women's Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780803217850
Author Sukey Vickery
Format Paperback
Page Count 278
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Weight(grams) 327g