Description
Book SynopsisCollects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown's biography and a drama and poems about her.
Trade Review"
Cherokee Sister perfectly captures what a scholastic collection of archival papers should be."—Joshua M. Rice,
Great Plains Quarterly"
Cherokee Sister is an essential intervention into, and addition to, the canon of nineteenth-century American Indian writers. The introductory essay is exemplary, serving not only as a recalibration of Brown's importance but also as a field- defining treatise on how we should approach nineteenth- century Native writing in general."—Bethany Schneider,
Legacy"
Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 offers to Americanists and Native Americanists alike a versatile collection of perhaps the earliest published Native American woman author in the United States. . . .
Cherokee Sister's ability to speak to so many interconnected contexts and issues will service a range of college classrooms toward a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of agency and adaptation in nineteenth-century Native American literatures."—Michael P. Taylor,
Early American LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 000Acknowledgments 000Statement of Editorial Method 000List of Abbreviations 000Editor’s Introduction 000 “My beloved people”: Early Life and Cherokee Contexts 000 “The dear missionaries”: Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts 000 “A means of great good to our people”: Interpreter and Teacher 000 Brown’s Writings 000 “With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you”: Brown’s Letters 000 “I jest sit down to address you with my pen”: The Rhetorics of Brown’s Letters 000 “O painful is it to record”: Brown’s Diary 000 Other Textual Representations 000 Memoir of Catharine Brown 000 Part 1. Collected Writings, 1818-1823Letters 000Diary 000 Part 2. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine BrownCatharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819) 000
A Lady of ConnecticutExcerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) 000 Lydia Sigourney“Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown” (1825) 000 Anonymous“The Grave of Catharine Brown” (1825) 000 H.S.Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825) 000 Rufus Anderson Source Acknowledgments 000Notes 000Works Cited 000
