At under fifteen HW
crossed the Atlantic from South Carolina to London—without her family, though they came later.
Literary historian Robert Bechtold Heilman
thinks she was never a resident of Charleston; however, this does...
Textual Features
Helena Wells
HW
's narrator represents a youthful reader exclaiming in disgust, And this is called a novel? . . . Why there is not an old castle to be pried into, nor a rusty key found...
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Texts
Heilman, Robert Bechtold. America in English Fiction, 1760-1800: The Influences of the American Revolution. Octagon, 1968.
