i take it from the discussion so far that no one saw Russell Shorto's review
of a book about Jamestown some weeks ago in the NYTimes Book Review. Shorto
says the bias that has made "colonial American history" synonymous with New
England for so long arose because NE is "easier to sanitize" and fits more neatly
the myth of America's founding. I agree and have been provoked by the
"sanitizing" to work on a historical fiction about tobacco brides and the 17th
century= for which I have fruitfully been picking all your brains for some time now,
gratefully. Louise Bernikow
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