The Other Daughters of the Revolution: The Narrative of K. White (1809) and the Memoirs of Elizabeth Fisher (1810)

by Elizabeth Fisher

Early in the nineteenth century, New York residents K. White and Elizabeth Fisher wrote and published two of the earliest autobiographies written by American women. Their lives ran along parallel courses: both were daughters of Loyalists who chose to remain in the United States; both found themselves entangled in unhappy marriages, abandoned for extend periods, and forced to take on the role of sole provider; and both became involved in property disputes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791468178
• ISBN13: 9780791468173
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"