The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in America

Alternate Titles

• Linwoods
• "Sixty years since" in America

Description

A novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence during the American Revolution. In The Linwoods, Catharine Maria Sedgwick illuminates the American character and explores issues of civic virtue and national identity in the early republic, through the lives of two families: the Linwoods, dutiful loyalists, and the Lees, passionate revolutionaries. At the novel's heart is Isabella Linwood, a bright and independent young woman who will transform from a proud Tory to ardent Rebel, challenging not only British rule but its accepted social, economic, and political institutions, including the aristocracy, slavery, and patriarchal authority.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction

Series Statement

• Hardscrabble books

Other Editions

• The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in AmericaMicroformHarper1835-01-01
• The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in AmericaUniversity Press of New England2002
• The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in AmericaMicroformHarper1970-01-01
• The Linwoods, or, "Sixty years since" in AmericaMicroformHarper & Brothers1970-01-01
• LinwoodsCreative Media Partners, LLC2011-01-01