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Cherokee sister : the collected writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 /
"Catharine Brown (1800?-1823) became Brainerd Mission School's first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime. After her death from tuberculosis at age twenty-three, the missiona...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Statement of Editorial Method; List of Abbreviations; Editor's Introduction; "My beloved people": Early Life and Cherokee Contexts; "The dear missionaries": Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts; "A means of great good to our people": Interpreter and Teacher; Brown's Writings; "With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you": Brown's Letters; "I jest sit down to address you with my pen": Th e Rhetorics of Brown's Letters; "O Painful is it to record": Brown's Diary.
- Other Textual RepresentationsMemoir of Catharine Brown; Part 1. Collected Writings, 1818-1823; Letters; Diary; Part 2. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine Brown; Catharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819); Excerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) ; "Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825); "Th e Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825); Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825); Source Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited.