Charles Brockden Brown 
Ormond 
Or, The Secret Witness

Get a first-hand look at life in the decades following the birth of American in the well-written period novel Ormond by Charles Brockden Brown, whom many scholars describe as one of the most important literary voices in early America. Spirited heroine Constance Dudley faces one tribulation after another as her family struggles to find its footing in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War.