Before her marriage, Tabitha Gilman's circle of friends included the younger Patty (or Martha) Rogers
. From at least April 1785 Patty was romantically involved with Samuel Tenney
(a former soldier in his late thirties...
Textual Features
Tabitha Tenney
With Charlotte Lennox
's The Female Quixote as starting-point, this story follows a novel-reading heroine whose response to events and people in actual life is distorted by what she reads. It seems quite likely that...
