The Fenwick Letters: Reconstructing a Transnational Feminist Life, Volume I: 1797-1821 Volume 1

By Eliza Fenwick

The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marked the initial phase of Eliza Fenwick's transnational odyssey, as she transformed from promising author to conservative schoolmistress and savvy businesswoman; from traveling in radical circles in London to establishing herself in colonial slave-dependent Bridgetown, Barbados; and from wife of radical journalist and author John Fenwick to single, working mother, trying to establish an independent life for herself and her children, Eliza Ann and Orlando. Eliza's letters are consistently riveting, filled with sharply drawn portraits of the people, places, environment, politics, industries, and culture of each community she lived in.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164453407X
• ISBN13: 9781644534076
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher