Jealousy and Public/Private Rebellion in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History
American novelist and friend or mistress of Thomas Jefferson’s one-term Vice President and Alexander Hamilton-killer, Aaron Burr, Leonora Sansay embeds the Horrors of St. Domingo within the...
Strictures on the Modern System of Miss Thoughtless, Miss Milner and Miss Price’s Educations
Searching in the “time of Covid” for a scholarly edition to aid in situating within the scholarly conversation, of Hannah More’s time and now, her Strictures...
“You’re a real woman now; you’re making babies.” Homeownership, body-ownership, in Jane Austen’s Persuasion/now
"You're a real woman now; you're making babies," a 74-year-old male/know-it-all from whom I purchased my house called after me as I walked away from...
Severing sex from violence in Colonial/North America: a legacy
On reading the first sentence of Sharon Block's book chapter, "Violence or Sex? Constructions of Rape and Race in Early America,"--"Is rape an act of sex...
Investigation (part 1 of 2): Untangling the mystery of Salem’s witches
Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis show that while the law pretended to be gender- and color-blind, the execution of that law was not the case,...