The Wilderness: or, The Youthful Days of Washington

Year of Publication
1823
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
521 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Solomon Secondsight
Publisher
E. Bliss & E. White
City
New York
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Abstract
Follows an Irish family from Ulster struggling on the frontier at the Forks of the Ohio. In a subplot George Washington, who is passing through on his historic mission of 1753, falls in love with a Pittsburgh maiden named Maria Frazier. When she refuses him, Washington rededicates himself to passion for his country.
Notes
Solomon Secondsight is a pseudonym of James McHenry
(1785-1845). Lawrenceville is referred to as Shannopin Town, as it was then known.
Author Biography
James McHenry (1785-1845), born in Ireland, was educated in Glasgow and Dublin and by 1817 practiced medicine in Philadelphia. In 1842 he was appointed U. S. counsel in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, a post he held until his death.
Time
1750s
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