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LOVE STORIES FROM EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY America are rare and often fragmented. Fortunately enough of the correspondence of Lucy Flucker Knox (1756–1824) and Margaret (Peggy) Shippen Arnold (1760–1804) has been preserved to trace their controversial marriages and dramatic lives.
Born four years apart to wealthy parents in pre–Revolutionary Boston and Philadelphia, Lucy and Peggy were intelligent, well-educated girls. As each developed into an attractive teenager in the mid-1770s, the political ferment of the American Revolution reached the boiling point. In the midst of that turmoil, both might have married men of their privileged class and led docile, if historically invisible, lives.
Thankfully that did not happen. As the title of this double biography, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married, implies both teenagers bucked social convention. One married radical patriot and poor bookseller Henry Knox in 1774; the other wed the then-military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779. Coupled with the young women's fateful marriages was their feistiness. Under different circumstances, Lucy and Peggy might have become friends.
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Biography, History, Arnold, benedict, 1741-1801, Knox, henry, 1750-1806, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, biographyPeople
Margaret Shippen Arnold (1760-1804), Benedict Arnold (1741-1801), Lucy Flucker Knox (1760-1824), Henry Knox (1750-1806)Places
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Defiant brides: the untold story of two revolutionary-era women and the radical men they married
2012, Beacon Press
in English
0807001171 9780807001172
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