When Britain’s thirteen North American colonies embarked on the organised resistance to the crown that would result in first a revolution and then their independence, their leadership was wildly impressive but disparate. Samuel Adams, a Puritan tax collector from Boston, and Benjamin Franklin, writer, printer, inventor, traveller and polymath, were the radical elder statesmen; the young farmer and bibliophile Thomas Jefferson joined forces with John Jay, a rich New York merchant; Virginian lawyer Patrick Henry provided the rhetoric that inflamed them all, famously calling for liberty or death.

Literary Review

Dec 2015

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Lucy Moore

Objects in the Rear-View Mirror

On the Trail of the Duke of Otranto

You Are What You Wear

Ladies of the Raj

Founding Mothers

Loom & Bust

Honour among Thieves

Jewel Identitites

Contempt of Court

Ladies Bountiful

A Life Less Ordinary

Halved Lives

Front Row at the Revolution

Stitches in Time

The Ice-Breakers

When the Ship Goes Down

In Vogue

Alone in New York

Reach for the Skies

Martinique to Malmaison