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It’s a Gift

over half of them women of color

and compiled all of her extensive writings and papers

Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing FICTION / Coming of Age Month-by-monthDuring the thirty years following ratification of the U. S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those gestures and conventions by which Samuel Richardson, Jane