A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf - Hayes, Kevin J.
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Despite major advances in women's history, literary history, and the history of the book, the intellectual life of women in colonial America has been a largely neglected area of scholarship. Kevin J. Hayes draws upon an impressive array of primary materials to describe in detail the kinds of books these women read and the reasons why they read them.

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Despite major advances in women's history, literary history, and the history of the book, the intellectual life of women in colonial America has been a largely neglected area of scholarship. Kevin J. Hayes draws upon an impressive array of primary materials to describe in detail the kinds of books these women read and the reasons why they read them.
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Kevin J. Hayes, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma, now lives and writes in Ohio. He is the author of several books about American literature, history, and culture, including Folklore and Book Culture; The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson , a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize; and The Library of William Byrd of Westover, for which he received the Virginia Library History Award presented by the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Center for the Book. He is also the recipient of research fellowships from the Boston Athenaeum, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Lilly Library, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, and the Virginia Historical Society.