One of my reading concentrations for next year is to be Antebellum America (non-fiction). Yet historical fiction set during a period or fiction from the period itself can do a lot to enhance understanding of a time and lay the groundwork for stodgier tomes and also provides an option when something lighter is needed.
So I thought I'd ask for recommendations. I have an elastic definition of antebellum, as I'm stretching it to include going back to colonial times (or earlier), my one real criterion is that the book not be what I've seen called "mistorical," i.e., not written with modern sensibilities or with clanging anachronisms.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Having recently read Kate Alcott's novel The Daring Ladies of Lowell and Rachel Urquhart's novel The Visionist
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I read
The Visionist after having seen this. It was a new slant on the Shakers for me. I'm in Shaker territory and have visited several villages; the official take tends to be quite laudatory. The song sung by the children about their biological families was chilling.