"The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama"

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Title"The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama"
Year for Search1868
Authors[Curtis], [Ariana Randolph Wormeley](1833-1922), and [Curtis], [Daniel Sargent](1825-1908)
Secondary TitleThe Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama, Followed by A Change of Base. And Doctor Mondschein
Pagination3-73
Date Published1868
PublisherLittle, Brown
Place PublishedBoston, MA
KeywordsFemale author, Male author, US author
Annotation

Humorous gender-role reversal satire in which the women have forcefully replaced men, burned all books written by men, and after only a few years cannot even remember the previous order, although the men can. The usual man from outside and a young woman fall in love, an out-of-date emotion.
Additional Publishers

The book went through over twenty editions with the same pagination. Rpt. in On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement. Ed. Bettina Friedl (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1987), 55-82 with editor's notes on 15-18.
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Author Note

Curtis, Ariana Randolph Wormeley (1833-1922). Daniel Sargent Curtis (1825-1908).
Full Text

1868 [Curtis, Ariana Randolph Wormeley (1833-1922) and Daniel Sargent Curtis (1825-1908)]. “The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama.” In their The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama, Followed by A Change of Base. And Doctor Mondschein (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1868), 3-73. The book went through over twenty editions with the same pagination. Rpt. in On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement. Ed. Bettina Friedl (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1987), 55-82 with editor’s notes on 15-18. PSt

Humorous gender-role reversal satire in which the women have forcefully replaced men, burned all books written by men, and after only a few years cannot even remember the previous order, although the men can. The usual man from outside and a young woman fall in love, an out-of-date emotion. Female co-author.