Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the
American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women
were effectively silenced - unable to officially align themselves
with either side or avoid being persecuted for their family ties.
In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman argues that women's letters and
journals are the key to recovering these voices, as these private
writings were used as vehicles for public engagement. Through a
literary analysis of extensive correspondence by statesmen's wives,
Quakers, merchants, and spies, Stripped and Script offers a new
definition of loyalism that accounts for disaffection, pacifism,
neutralism, and loyalism-by-association. Taking up the rhetoric of
violation and rape, this archive repeatedly references the real
threats rebels posed to female bodies, property, friendships, and
families. Through writing, these women defended themselves against
violation, in part, by writing about their personal experiences
while knowing that the documents themselves may be confiscated,
used against them, and circulated.
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