Women in History: A New Vein in the Revolutionary War Era

That Cynthia Kierner provides a palpable sense of the world Jane Welborn Spurgin inhabited in early America is a triumph, restoring to history a woman otherwise overlooked.

Via Wikimedia Commons
A Currier & Ives lithograph of another notable woman of the Revolutionary War, the Heroine of Monmouth, Molly Pitcher. Via Wikimedia Commons

‘The Tory’s Wife: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America’
By Cynthia A. Kierner
University of Virginia Press, 224 pages

‘The Line of Splendor: A Novel of Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution’
By Salina B. Baker
Culver Press, 622 pages

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