The Hermaphrodite (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers)

Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe’s novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time—or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised a…

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