Sarah Knott is a British-born feminist, writer and historian. Her first book explored how sensibility, a way of being that celebrated human sympathy, was central to the American Revolution.
Sensibility and the American Revolution suggested
that revolutionaries sought the transformation of citizens and society, as much as to create new republican forms of government.
Her second book,
Witnessing the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1804, explores first-person narratives of events in the United States, France and Saint Domingue, as a means of telling the cultural history of the Age of Revolutions.
Knott's new book is
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History.
At the
Guardian, she tagged
five of the best books about motherhood, including:
What do we read to find out about other mothers’ lives? Sarah Moss blends history and fiction stylishly in Night Waking, which I picked 
up a little feverishly with an infant close at hand, looking for something clever and non-prescriptive. In the 1870s, a nurse travels to a remote Scottish island where infant mortality is desperately high. She brings her modern medicine, but not much understanding of island life, to hardscrabble homes. In the novel’s present day, a new mother in Scotland, an academic on a working holiday, digs up one of those infant skeletons. Her attempts to cope with small children, and with a husband whose parenting plays second fiddle to his work, unfold next to her struggle to understand what happened to the buried baby.
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another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
that revolutionaries sought the transformation of citizens and society, as much as to create new republican forms of government.
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