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Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution by Kacy Dowd Tillman (review)

Despite the steady pressure on the category of the nation in US literary history in recent decades and some recent attention to loyalism by literary historians (e.g. a recent special issue of Early American Literature on the subject), the principle of to-the-victor-the-spoils still largely prevails in the field and in the broader cultural imagination. In Kacy Tillman’s book on the textual productions of relatively unknown loyalist women, she thus faces challenges on several fronts. Her subjects—elite class white women in the Delaware Valley, mostly married, many (but not) of them Quakers—wrote primarily for manuscript circulation; the works Tillman analyzes are thus primarily in the genres of the letter, the journal, and the petition. I have studied and taught early American fiction, but because of this focus I faced the book with some trepidation.