Research Catalog

Title

Cherokee sister : the collected writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 / Catharine Brown ; edited and with an introduction by Theresa Strouth Gaul.

Author

Brown, Catharine, 1800?-1823

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Gaul, Theresa Strouth.

Description

xvii, 289 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Catharine Brown (1800?-1823) became Brainerd Mission School's first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime. After her death from tuberculosis at age twenty-three, the missionary organization that had educated and later employed Brown commissioned a posthumous biography, Memoir of Catharine Brown, which enjoyed widespread contemporary popularity and praise. In the following decade, her writings, along with those of other educated Cherokees, became highly politicized and were used in debates about the removal of the Cherokees and other tribes to Indian Territory. Although she was once viewed by literary critics as a docile and dominated victim of missionaries who represented the tragic fate of Indians who abandoned their identities, Brown is now being reconsidered as a figure of enduring Cherokee revitalization, survival, adaptability, and leadership. In Cherokee Sister Theresa Strouth Gaul collects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown's biography and a drama and poems about her. This edition of Brown's collected works and related materials firmly establishes her place in early nineteenth-century culture and her influence on American perceptions of Native Americans. "--
• "A collection of writings by and about Catharine Brown, the first Cherokee to convert to Christianity who wrote extensively about her conversion and faith"--

Series Statement

Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers.

Subject

• Brown, Catharine, 1800?-1823 > Diaries
• Brown, Catharine, 1800?-1823 > Correspondence
• Brainerd Mission > History > 19th century
• 1800-1899
• Cherokee women > Tennessee > Biography
• Cherokee Indians > History > Tennessee > 19th century
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
• HISTORY / United States / 19th Century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Diaries
• History
• Records and correspondence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"My beloved people": early life and Cherokee contexts -- "The dear missionaries": education, conversion, and missionary contexts -- "A means of great good to our people": interpreter and teacher -- Brown's writings. "With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you": Brown's letters -- "I jest sit down to address you with my pen": the rhetorics of Brown's letters -- "O painful is it to record": Brown's diary -- Other textual representations -- Memoir of Catherine Brown.

ISBN

• 9780803240759 (pbk.)
• 0803240759 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013027957

OCLC

• 839395946
• SCSB-11941640

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library