Emily J Clark

Amish Christmas at North Star: Four Stories of Love and Family

One night four lives entered the world by the hands of an Amish midwife, just outside North Star, Pennsylvania. Rebekah’s Babies, as they are called, are now grown adults and in four heartwarming novellas each young person experiences a journey of discovery, a possibility of love, and the wonder of...

Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)

This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their deserved place in its written record. The women whose absorbing life stories are told here range from Felicité Girodeau of old Natche...

By Emily Clark The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic Worl (1st Edition)

A Luminous Brotherhood: Afro-Creole Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans

In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the C...

Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early ... History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

During French colonial rule in Louisiana, nuns from the French Company of Saint Ursula came to New Orleans, where they educated women and girls of European, Indian, and African descent, enslaved and free, in literacy, numeracy, and the Catholic faith. Although religious women had gained acceptance a...

The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon", she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interraci...

Emerging From the Darkness

Eight poems written by Emily P. Clark, a girl emotionally abused as a child. Now as a young adult she is working through her problems to try and lead a normal, healthy life. Featuring 'D.D.', and 'A Photo, a Memory'.D.D.Sometimes, I look at you,I see the smile on your face,But then I look closer,and...

Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727--1760

In 1727, twelve nuns left France to establish a community of Ursuline nuns in New Orleans, the capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Notable for founding a school that educated all free girls, regardless of social rank, the Ursulines also ran an orphanage, administered the colony's military hos...