edited by Carolyn L. Karcher
by Lydia Marie Child,
Rutgers University Press, 1986
Cloth: 978-0-8135-1163-4 | Paper: 978-0-8135-1164-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-5689-5
Library of Congress Classification PS1293.A6 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.2

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature. In addition, this collection contains seven remarkable short stories; an extract on Indian women from Child's groundbreaking History of the Condition of Women in Various Ages and Nations (1835); a selection from her best-selling volume of journalistic sketches, Letters from New-York (1843); and her eloquent Appeal for Indians (1868). This revised edition of "Hobomok" and Other Writings on Indians includes three new stories: "The Church in the Wilderness," "Willie Wharton," and "The Indians"--as well as explanatory notes and an updated bibliography.