- ISBN: 9780812235494 | 0812235495
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/1/2000
"Rachel Van Dyke's journal helps us to see just how porous were the boundaries of literary culture, aesthetics, sociability, and self-fashioning. . . . Above all, it reminds us of the willful and determined self-creation demanded of any young woman, however privileged, who harbored intellectual ambitions in the early republic."--William and Mary Quarterly