The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution. With an introduction and notes by John Adams Vinton.

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Massachusetts-born soldier Deborah Sampson (later Gannett, 1760 Ð 1827) enlisted in the Continental Army in 1782 and was assigned to the Light Infantry Company of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment. She served for eighteen months, disguised as a man under the identity of ÒRobert Shirtliff,Ó until she was injured in battle and honorably discharged at West Point in 1783. After her service, ÒSampson won some recognition in her lifetime as a pioneering female soldier and public speaker,Ó (Hiltner, p. 93). In 1805, she successfully petitioned the Massachusetts State Legislature for a pension, which had been initially denied because she was a woman. Quarto. 267 [[/ . With an engraved frontisportrait (reproduced from the first edition). Primary title-page printed in red and black. With a separate title-page for the text of the original 1797 account. Also with reproductions of two signatures (Sampson and John Hancock). Original brown paper wrappers with parchment paper spine. Some soiling to spine. Chipping to edges of wrappers and first couple leaves. Unopened. Some light foxing to edges of frontisportrait. A very good, wide, and internally bright copy of this scarce large paper edition. One of thirty-five royal quarto (large paper) copies, numbered and signed ÒWiggin and LuntÓ in ink above edition statement. 250 small quarto copies were also issued. The account of Deborah Sampson, reprinted here, was written by Herman Mann and originally published as The Female Review: or, Memoirs of an American Young Lady in 1797 In ÒThe Example of Our Heroine,Ó Judith Hiltner writes, ÒMannÕs 1797 SampsonÉwas a fictional construct shaped to inculcate the early republican values virtues of industry, reason, and self-sufficiency, and to establish the limits of female patriotism while endorsing the popular ideology of chaste female influence,Ó (p. 98). It was a sensationalized account that only partially reflected SampsonÕs experiences in the Continental Army. Mann (1771 Ð 1833) was a publisher, bookseller, and newspaper editor. Though he claimed to be SampsonÕs friend, Mann was likely seeking profit by pretending that his account was reliably sourced from SampsonÕs own recollections. Hiltner, Judith. ÒÔThe Example of Our HeroineÕ: Deborah Sampson and the Legacy of Herman MannÕs The Female Review.Ó American Studies, vol. 41, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 93-113. N° de ref. del artículo 16916

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