- Published: 1 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780807033265
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 264
- RRP: $60.00
Defiant Brides
The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married
- Published: 1 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780807033265
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 264
- RRP: $60.00
"An ingenious means of bringing new life to the oldest story in our nation's past: the American Revolution from the perspective of the young and clear-sighted wives of generals Benedict Arnold and Henry Knox. Tracing the parallel lives of two couples with conflicting loyalties, Nancy Rubin Stuart achieves a you-are-there verisimilitude in Defiant Brides that is rare and not to be missed." --Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
"In this lively double-biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals the resilient lives of a leading Patriot and a notorious Loyalist: both of them women. Lucy Flucker Knox and Peggy Shippen Arnold deftly performed the parlor politics that helped to shape the American Revolution in surprising ways." --Alan Taylor, author of The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies