Women Writers Project

By Claire Lavarreda, NULab/DITI Research Fellow and World History Ph.D. student I. Introduction In the first entry of the “Reading Between the Lines” series, we investigated how Mary Jemison (a white woman captured and adopted by a Seneca family) portrayed women and gender in her work, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. Jemison was strongly influenced by her biological and adoptive mothers, as well as her adoptive sisters, and these bonds reveal the complex way Jemison viewed fellow women. Brave, tender, intelligent—in…

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By Claire Lavarreda, NULab/DITI Research Fellow and World History Ph.D. student   I. Introduction “Mother, from the time we were taken, had manifested a great degree of fortitude, and encouraged us to support our troubles without complaining; and by her conversation seemed to make the distance and time shorter, and the way more smooth. But father lost all his ambition in the beginning of our trouble, and continued apparently lost to every care—absorbed in melancholy. Here, as before, she insisted on the…

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