Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo

Leonora Sansay (1773–c.1821) was an early American novelist, best known for her epistolary novel 'Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo' (1808). Her work is often valued for its insights into the complexities of gender relations and colonial politics during the turbulent revolutionary era in the Caribbean. Sansay was born Leonora Barry in Philadelphia, and her life is largely reconstructe...