Lucinda; or, the Mountain Mourner

P. D. Manvill

Original title: Lucinda; or, The mountain mourner

first published 1810 Syracuse University Press, 2009

Writing American women

"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 book appeared in three different states. Although it is a memoir, Lucinda reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, wehre the heroine is seduced, abandoned, and then dies in isolation shortly after her illegitimate child is born... In ad...

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Lucinda : Or the Mountain Mourner edition · 2022 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781018224282
Lucinda; or, The mountain mourner edition · 2009 · Syracuse University Press · 102 pages · 9780815632085
Lucinda; or, the Mountain Mourner edition · 2009 · Syracuse University Press · 9780815651130

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