Cherokee Sister

Theresa Strouth Gaul is a professor of English at Texas Christian University. She is the editor of To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823–1839 and a coeditor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.

• List of Illustrations 000Acknowledgments 000Statement of Editorial Method 000List of Abbreviations 000Editor's Introduction 000 "My beloved people": Early Life and Cherokee Contexts 000 "The dear missionaries": Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts 000 "A means of great good to our people": Interpreter and Teacher 000 Brown's Writings 000 "With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you": Brown's Letters 000 "I jest sit down to address you with my pen": The Rhetorics of Brown's Letters 000 "O painful is it to record": Brown's Diary 000 Other Textual Representations 000 Memoir of Catharine Brown 000 Part 1. Collected Writings, 1818-1823Letters 000Diary 000 Part 2. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine BrownCatharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819) 000 A Lady of ConnecticutExcerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) 000 Lydia Sigourney"Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825) 000 Anonymous"The Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825) 000 H.S.Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825) 000 Rufus Anderson Source Acknowledgments 000Notes 000Works Cited 000

"Cherokee Sister perfectly captures what a scholastic collection of archival papers should be."-Joshua M. Rice, Great Plains Quarterly "Cherokee Sister is an essential intervention into, and addition to, the canon of nineteenth-century American Indian writers. The introductory essay is exemplary, serving not only as a recalibration of Brown's importance but also as a field- defining treatise on how we should approach nineteenth- century Native writing in general."-Bethany Schneider, Legacy "Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 offers to Americanists and Native Americanists alike a versatile collection of perhaps the earliest published Native American woman author in the United States. . . . Cherokee Sister's ability to speak to so many interconnected contexts and issues will service a range of college classrooms toward a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of agency and adaptation in nineteenth-century Native American literatures."-Michael P. Taylor, Early American Literature