Eliza Fenwick – författare

The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marked the initial phase of Eliza Fenwick’s transnational odyssey, as she transformed from promising author to conservative schoolmistress and savvy businesswoman; from traveling in radical circles in London to establishing herself in colonial slave-dependent Bridgetown, Barbados; and from wife of radical journalist and author John Fenwick to single, working mother, trying to establish an independent life for herself and her children, Eliza Ann and Orlando. Eliza’s letters are consistently riveting, filled with sharply drawn portraits of the people, places, environment, politics, industries, and culture of each community she lived in.

The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marked the initial phase of Eliza Fenwick’s transnational odyssey, as she transformed from promising author to conservative schoolmistress and savvy businesswoman; from traveling in radical circles in London to establishing herself in colonial slave-dependent Bridgetown, Barbados; and from wife of radical journalist and author John Fenwick to single, working mother, trying to establish an independent life for herself and her children, Eliza Ann and Orlando. Eliza’s letters are consistently riveting, filled with sharply drawn portraits of the people, places, environment, politics, industries, and culture of each community she lived in.

In volume 2 of The Fenwick Letters,the scholarly annotations to the letters written by Eliza Fenwick (1764-1840) and her granddaughter Elizabeth Rutherford Savage (1817-1899) between 1822 and 1840 reveal an immigration success story. Eliza remade herself in North America as a businesswoman and educator, and her progressive arts-based philosophies and practices still read as a template for academic excellence."."

In volume 2 of The Fenwick Letters,the scholarly annotations to the letters written by Eliza Fenwick (1764-1840) and her granddaughter Elizabeth Rutherford Savage (1817-1899) between 1822 and 1840 reveal an immigration success story. Eliza remade herself in North America as a businesswoman and educator, and her progressive arts-based philosophies and practices still read as a template for academic excellence."."