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Excerpt from The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell I have been entrusted by my aunt, Miss Elizabeth Sewell, with her autobiography, and feel that I am carrying out her wishes in having it published, so that many to whom the record Of her life will be Of interest may have it in her own words. Some Of my friends have urged me to add to this record further extracts from her journal, so I have inserted them with the chapters in the auto biography, to correspond as nearly as possible with regard to dates. Any account Of her life would be incomplete without some notice Of her educational and literary work, and Of the deep interest she manifested in all schemes for women's welfare therefore a fe...
Thomas Young was born in about 1747 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He married Naomi Hyatt, daughter of Seth Hyatt and Priscilla, in about 1768. They had four children. Thomas died in 1829 in North Carolina. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
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Annotation Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have challenged contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women's fiction shows how 19th century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and alternative of single or professional life.