Letters from an age of reason.
Letters from an age of reason.
By
:
Hague, Nora.
Publication Date
:
2001
Subject Term
:
Racially mixed people -- Fiction.
Americans -- England -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Slaves -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Love stories.
Summary
:
An eloquent debut novel set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention Miss Arabella Leeds, the high-spirited teenage daughter of a prominent New York family, and Aubrey "Brie" Paxton, the "high yellow" pampered house servant of wealthy French-American slave-holders, are destined to fall in love.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780060184919
9780060959852