the feminist librarian reads

“My book is a radical experiment that only a professional historian would attempt–can we recenter early American history not just on women’s history, but on the experiences of a little girl and a woman who forgets how to speak English by age 10?  How much farther from the so-called “Founding Fathers” can we get?  The books written by journalist-historians in my field, by contrast, tend to be just-so tales about the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous in eighteenth-century Anglo-America.” (via Writers, readers, publishers, and money | Historiann). Image: Esther Wheelwright. Oil on canvas by unknown artist, c. 1763. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.