Columns:: Historical epic released in paperback

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Columns::October 29, 2001

Weekly Reader

Historical epic released in paperback

The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset: A Novel book cover

$17.95 (paper)
University of Georgia Press

Set in Revolutionary War-era Charleston, The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset is a comic historical epic with a memorable heroine. The novel, while parodying the style of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding and William Thackeray, charts the growth of the beautiful Jenny Dorset as she matures from a headstrong child into a tenacious freedom fighter and leader of the Daughters of Liberty as the Revolutionary War approaches. Henry Hawthorne, an astute and witty family servant, narrates this adventure that follows the rise of and humorous feud between two eccentric low-country plantation families.
Written by Philip Lee Williams, director of communications for the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Jenny Dorset has been called “part family saga, part historical novel, part picaresque adventure and all grand burlesque” by the Orlando Sentinel, which says it “comically mirrors the exuberant, brash spirit of the fledgling America in which it is set.”

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