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Wordsworth described poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.emotion recollected in tranquility.He could have been describing this book. Filled with a young woman's admiration for her mentor; her drive to experience the greater world; growth of her artistic self and her keen observations of colonial expansion and British occupation in Albany and the Hudson Valley. Grant captures all the inherent tension with an historian's passion and an artist's eye.Grant, Anne MacVicar is the author of 'Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America as They Existed Prior to the Revolution', published 2007 under ISBN 9780548105221 and ISBN 0548105227.
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