Widely read in their time, these works by a pioneering American feminist are now available in a Broadview Edition.
This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith's successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh with many of Oakes Smith's other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive is a captivity narrative portraying the Shawnee leader as an American hero and as the white heroine's spiritual soulmate.