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- Emily Hamilton and Other Writings
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
summary
Sukey Vickery’s Emily Hamilton is an epistolary novel dealing with the courtship and marriages of three women. Originally published in 1803, it is one of the earliest examples of realist fiction in America and a departure from other novels at the turn of the nineteenth century. From the outset its author intended it as a realist project, never delving into the overly sentimental plotting or characterization present in much of the writing of Vickery’s contemporaries. Emily Hamilton explores from a decidedly feminine perspective the idea of a woman’s right to choose her own spouse and the importance of female friendship. Vickery’s characterization of women further diverges from the typical eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century didactic of the righteous/sinful woman and depicts, instead, believable female characters exhibiting true-to-life behavior.
A presentation of this novel accompanied by Vickery’s poetry, letters, a diary fragment, and a few nineteenth-century responses to her work, Emily Hamilton and Other Writings is the first complete collection of Vickery’s writings.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-lii
- Emily Hamilton
- pp. 1-154
- Poems Published in the Massachusetts Spy
- Address to PIETY
- pp. 160-131
- To FIDELIA [1]
- p. 163
- To THEODORUS
- pp. 164-165
- Resignation
- p. 166
- To FIDELIA [2]
- pp. 169-170
- To THEODORUS
- pp. 171-172
- Evening Reflections
- pp. 173-175
- To FIDELIA [3]
- pp. 179-180
- To THEODORUS
- pp. 181-182
- To CONTENT
- p. 183
- Lines, Occasioned by the Death of Miss E****
- pp. 184-185
- Sonnet to FIDELIA
- p. 189
- To FREDERIC
- p. 190
- Unpublished Manuscripts
- Ode for the New year. Jan. 1st, 1784.
- pp. 193-195
- [Letter to Adeline Hartwell]
- pp. 196-199
- A tale for those who deal in the marvelous
- pp. 201-202
- To Adelaide—
- p. 205
- Appendix 1: Tribute to Merit
- pp. 209-210
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- pp. 223-224
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803226517
MARC Record
OCLC
593234933
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No