What is Hobomok?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Hobomok 1824.jpg|thumb|1st edition title page]] '''''Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times''''' is a book by [[Lydia Maria Child]]. It was published anonymously in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in [[1824]] by Cummings, Hilliard & Co. The story is about the marriage between a [[white]] woman and a [[Native American]] man. They have a son. The [[heroine]] later remarries, and rejoins [[Puritan]] society with her child. The theme of [[miscegenation]] crearted a [[scandal]]. The book was not a critical success.<ref>Samuels, Shirley. ''The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America.'' New York: Oxford UP, 1992: 59.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==More reading== * {{cite book|title=Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times|year=1824|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p03SAAAAMAAJ|last1=Child|first1=Lydia Maria}} [[Category:American novels]] [[Category:1820s books]] {{lit-stub}}