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I am now into about the first 150 pages of Fanny Seward: A Life and still loving it. It is so much more than just a biography of an intelligent young lady; it is proving to be an excellent overview of life between Auburn, New York, and Washington, D.C. during our country's most turbulent decades. It's covering military aspects as well as familial and social events in the life of Fanny and others of her age. Thank you, Trudy!

May I ask a personal question? I have yet to google your name for your bio, but I am trying to decide whether you are a professor of history or English literature? I was assuming history until the chapter where you discuss Fanny's literary growth. That turned me to thinking of literature because you review her work much like a teacher of 19th-century writing would -- especially her poem on Dead! Dead?