Description:
The first intellectual history of early southern women, situating their reading and writing within the literary culture of the wider Anglo-Atlantic world.
Brief description: Catherine Kerrison is Associate Professor of History at Villanova University.
Review Quotes:
Catherine Kerrison's wonderful new book challenges scholars on a host of points. She asks us to think about how the history of the book, print culture, and reading can inform a broader intellectual history. She prods us to broaden our understanding of intellectual history to include the prescriptive literature, letters, journals, and commonplace books that formed the minds of eighteenth-century women. And she poses these questions on a ground unfamiliar and even alien to American historians: the intellectual history of women in the early South.
--Beth Barton Schweiger "The Book: Newsletter of the American Antiquarian Society"