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"Rachel Van Dyke's journal helps us to see just how porous were the boundaries of literary culture, aesthetics, sociability, and self-fashioning. . . . Above all, it reminds us of the willful and determined self-creation demanded of any young woman, however privileged, who harbored intellectual ambitions in the early republic."--William and Mary QuarterlyVan Dyke, Rachel is the author of 'To Read My Heart The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811', published 2000 under ISBN 9780812235494 and ISBN 0812235495.
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