Kamensky, Jane

"An intimate portrait of the artist [John Singleton Copley] and his extraordinary times ... [this book] reveals the world of the American Revolution, a place in time riven by divided loyalties and tangled sympathies"--Dust jacket.

This book tells the stories of women in these changing and growing settlements, American women regardless of their region, color or status.

Uses personal stories and primary source material to focus on the changes in the lives of American women of all ethnic and economic backgrounds and to discuss the variety and importance of their experiences.

In 1764, Scottish portrait painter Stewart Jameson, trying to avoid debtors, relocates to Boston, where he takes Fanny Easton, the disgraced daughter of a leading citizen, as his apprentice and together, with the help of runaway slave Dr. Ignatius Alexander, the investigate the murder of an abolitionist.