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Here is a Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering the intellectual and institutional character of women s literary culture in eighteenth-century America. Moore s commonplace book shows that a network of women were engaged in literary communication in manuscript and that they articulated a distinct women s interest prior to the revolution an entirely novel finding in early American intellectual history. </p> David S. Shields, The Citadel</p>

Here is a Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering the intellectual and institutional character of women s literary culture in eighteenth-century America. Moore s commonplace book shows that a network of women were engaged in literary communication in manuscript and that they articulated a distinct women s interest prior to the revolution an entirely novel finding in early American intellectual history. David S. Shields, The Citadel

Here is a Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering the intellectual and institutional character of women's literary culture in eighteenth-century America. Moore's commonplace book shows that a network of women were engaged in literary communication in manuscript and that they articulated a distinct women's interest prior to the revolution--an entirely novel finding in early American intellectual history. --David S. Shields, The Citadel

Here is a Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering the intellectual and institutional character of women's literary culture in eighteenth-century America. Moore's commonplace book shows that a network of women were engaged in literary communication in manuscript and that they articulated a distinct women's interest prior to the revolution--an entirely novel finding in early American intellectual history. --David S. Shields, The Citadel Available in paperback, Milcah Martha Moore's Book is a welcome addition to the few collections of eighteenth-century women's documents and could be readily integrated into literature and history courses. --Betsy Homsher, The Book (American Antiquarian Society) Whether examining the merits of single life, the bonds of friendship, the life of the spirit, or the painful process of revolution, the 126 works in this commonplace book represent a lively conversation among Moore's contemporaries. . . . This glimpse into the complex world of Revolutionary-era Quakers casts in a new light the value of the circulating manuscript as a literary exercise. . . . Fine essays by Blecki and Wulf explore the biographical, historical, and literary contexts of this exciting addition to the growing body of recovered women's texts. --Choice

Here is a Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering the intellectual and institutional character of women's literary culture in eighteenth-century America. Moore's commonplace book shows that a network of women were engaged in literary communication in manuscript and that they articulated a distinct women's interest prior to the revolution-an entirely novel finding in early American intellectual history. -David S. Shields, The Citadel Whether examining the merits of single life, the bonds of friendship, the life of the spirit, or the painful process of revolution, the 126 works in this commonplace book represent a lively conversation among Moore's contemporaries. . . . This glimpse into the complex world of Revolutionary-era Quakers casts in a new light the value of the circulating manuscript as a literary exercise. . . . Fine essays by Blecki and Wulf explore the biographical, historical, and literary contexts of this exciting addition to the growing body of recovered women's texts. -Choice Available in paperback, Milcah Martha Moore's Book is a welcome addition to the few collections of eighteenth-century women's documents and could be readily integrated into literature and history courses. -Betsy Homsher, The Book (American Antiquarian Society)

Available in paperback, Milcah Martha Moore s Book is a welcome addition to the few collections of eighteenth-century women s documents and could be readily integrated into literature and history courses. Betsy Homsher, The Book (American Antiquarian Society)

Available in paperback, Milcah Martha Moore's Book is a welcome addition to the few collections of eighteenth-century women's documents and could be readily integrated into literature and history courses. --Betsy Homsher, The Book (American Antiquarian Society)

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