The novel incorporates some spiritual elements, such as deep discussions of God, religious revelations, and visions of ghosts. The story's themes include adoption, schooling, love, death, marriage, and familial secrets.

"A fine introduction to the bold, contentious, complicated women who categorically refused to be good little girls, and thereby changed the way our culture defines male-female relations".--Voice Literary Supplement.

This book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War.

This book contains an historical essay and short biographies on those who stayed loyal to Britain during the American Revolution in the American colonies.

This book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War.

Defines why women have been blocked from participating in the mainstream of American comedy yet have overcome hurdles to produce a humor that is sustaining and spells survival for women in society.

One of the earliest American writers of realistic fiction, Davis wrote about poor and working class women, factory life and social oppression, with the hope of affecting social change.

For notes and corrections to this work by E. B. O'Callaghan, see New York Genealogical and biographical record, Jan. 1906, vol. 34, p. 50- 51.

In this novel, Abraham Lincoln appears as a literary character--Prime Editions blurb.

" -The Nation "Where Michael Jackson meets spirituality, where Martin Luther King meets Malcolm X, where the consolidating 'narrative of racial unity' meets the 'perplexing and chaotic politics of racial identity': These are the border ...