Episode 21: Stuff A Child With Learning

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston to William Martin Johnston, January 15, 1784 In which an exiled wife of a British loyalist teases her husband for maybe not knowing how old his son is, tries to figure out what to do once Britain cedes Florida to the Spanish, and tries to avoid ending up in Jamaica. Kathryn is joined by her friend from graduate school Sian Leach, who used this letter along with hundreds of others in her graduate thesis about loyalist women. Further Reading: Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist, Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, New York and London, M. F. Mansfield & company, 1901. 217-219 for this letter. On Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/elizabeth-lichtenstein-johnston-1764-1848 “Shot Round the World but not Heard” Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston, by Ben Marsh, University of Stirling, December 2007. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9049509.pdf The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire, Maya Jasanoff, The William and Mary Quarterly Third Series, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Apr., 2008), pp. 205-232. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25096784