Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family - Paperback

by Lynn A. Bonfield (Author)

Roxana's Children is a well-researched and well written biography of Roxana Brown Walbridge Watts (1802-62) and her descendants. The book is constructed from the descendants' 300 preserved letters, 30 diaries, and photographs from the family's village life during 19th-century Vermont. Bonfield and Morrison use these sources to discuss social change and movement in American life.

Author Biography

An archivist for thirty years, Lynn A. Bonfield has worked at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, the California Historical Society, and San Francisco State University. Mary C. Morrison, great-granddaughter of Roxana, is a writer and teacher.