sentences: "Alexander Medlicott notes that "The Female Marine" is the "first American novel to employ a woman warrior as the focal point of the action" – though the "History of Constantius and Pulchera; or, Virtue rewarded" bears small similarities.Although "Constantius and Pulchera" was published anonymously in 1795, an 1831 edition included a poem by Nathaniel Hill Wright, and is often listed in library catalogs as, including the Constantius and Pulchera novel, being authored by Wright.