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True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset
Philip Lee Williams
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Description for True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset
Paperback. This novel is a comic historical epic with a memorable heroine. While parodying the style of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding, it charts the growth of the beautiful Jenny Dorset as she matures from a headstrong child into a tenacious freedom fighter. Num Pages: 512 pages, music. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 34. Weight in Grams: 676.
A comic epic of a brazen and beautiful heroine set in vibrant Revolutionary War-era Charleston; Set in a city as lively and absorbing as the novel's writing, The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset is a comic historical epic with a memorable heroine. The novel, while parodying the style of eighteenth-century novelists such as Henry Fielding and William Thackeray, charts the growth of the beautiful Jenny Dorset as she matures from a headstrong child into a tenacious freedom fighter and leader of the Daughters of Liberty as the Revolutionary War approaches. Henry Hawthorne, an astute and witty family servant, ... Read more
A comic epic of a brazen and beautiful heroine set in vibrant Revolutionary War-era Charleston; Set in a city as lively and absorbing as the novel's writing, The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset is a comic historical epic with a memorable heroine. The novel, while parodying the style of eighteenth-century novelists such as Henry Fielding and William Thackeray, charts the growth of the beautiful Jenny Dorset as she matures from a headstrong child into a tenacious freedom fighter and leader of the Daughters of Liberty as the Revolutionary War approaches. Henry Hawthorne, an astute and witty family servant, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820323343
SKU
V9780820323343
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About Philip Lee Williams
Philip Lee Williams has published eight novels, including The Heart of a Distant Forest. He is also a widely published poet and is most recently the author of the autobiographical Crossing Wildcat Ridge: A Memoir of Nature and Healing (Georgia). Williams and his family live in Oconee County, Georgia.
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