The Fenwick letters a transnational feminist life reconstructed Volume I 1797-1821 edited by Lissa Paul ; with the assistance of Jennifer Slagus, Adrienne Kitchin, and Murray Wilcox

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenwick, E. (Eliza), author.

Contributor:

Paul, Lissa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fenwick, E. (Eliza)--Correspondence.

Fenwick, E.

Fenwick, E. (Eliza).

Genre:

Personal correspondence

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Newark University of Delaware Press [2026]

Summary:

"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"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

1797–1800 : things fall apart

1801–1805 : imagining an independent life

1806–1810 : from author to teache

1811–1813 : toward a colonial life

1814–1821 : Barbados

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 12, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Fenwick, E. (Eliza) Fenwick letters

ISBN:

9781644534090

1644534096

OCLC:

1572410361

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license