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Lucinda - or, The Mountain Mourner (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Lucinda - or, The Mountain Mourner (Paperback, Revised ed.)
Series: Writing American Women
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In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition
of P. D. Manvill's ""Lucinda""; or, ""The Mountain Mourner"". Over
the next five decades no fewer than ten printings of the novel
appeared in three different states. In the book, the eponymous
heroine is one of seven children left to the ailing and
poverty-stricken widower Adrian Manvill. Although it is a memoir,
""Lucinda"" reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, where the
heroine is seduced, abandoned, and then dies in isolation shortly
after her illegitimate child is born. Mischelle B. Anthony's
critical edition rescues this once-popular cautionary tale from
obscurity and positions it among such classic early American
narratives as ""Charlotte Temple"" and ""The Coquette"". In
addition to providing insight into the Republican and
nineteenth-century reading culture, ""Lucinda"", as a historical
document, provides a glimpse into one family and one community
dealing with radical social and economic issues in early America.
In her introduction, Anthony sheds light on the text's multiple
functions among its nineteenth-century readership and draws
attention to its unique status as a narrative written by a
participant in the events.
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