Nancy Rubin Stuart

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

Nancy Rubin Stuart, award-winning author and Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center, on her book Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married, which covers the histories of Margaret (Peggy) Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flucker Knox.

[Recorded on July 1, 2021.]

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      Nancy Rubin Stuart

      Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography, and social history. She has appeared on national television and NPR and has written for the New York Times, among other publications. Stuart is a board member of the Women Writing Women’s Lives Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center and executive director of the Cape Cod Writers Center. She is currently completing a book on Benjamin’s women which will be published in February 2022.

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