The Female American: Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza... - Unca Eliza Winkfie...

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nWhen it first appeared in 1767, this novel was called a \u201Csort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders.\u201D Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield\u2019s novel is her protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era\u2019s popular novels typically featured women in the confining contexts of the home and the bourgeois marriage market, Winkfield\u2019s novel portrays an autonomous and mobile heroine living alone in the wilds of the New World, independently interacting with both Native Americans and visiting Europeans. The Female American is also one of the .