Karen Swallow Prior
American author and literary scholar who writes and teaches on literature, Christianity, ethics, and contemporary culture; contributor of essays and books on reading, morality, and faith.
Books
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1. Fierce Convictions
A spirited biography that restores to view an 18th– and early‑19th‑century English writer and moral reformer who used poetry, plays, and popular tracts to shape debates about virtue, education, and slavery; she founded schools for the poor, collaborated with leading evangelicals and abolitionists, and wielded formidable cultural influence while negotiating the limits placed on women in the public sphere. The portrait highlights both her achievements and the contradictions of a figure whose later conservatism complicated her reputation, arguing that her faith, literary gifts, and fierce convictions merit renewed attention.
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