@article{Bixby2012,
       author = "Bixby, Brian L. and Mudgett, Jill",
       title =  {{Daniel Pierce Thompson and "The Shaker Lovers": Portraying the Shakers in Fiction and on the Stage}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/1cce5fcc-cac9-4aa6-b591-a1f964d79a9e}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2012,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {6},
       number = {2},
       pages = {75--92},
}

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April 2012

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2015-04-01

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When Vermont author D. P. Thompson’s short story "The Shaker Lovers” was first published in the periodical The New World in 1841, it joined a growing body of literature on American Shaker communities. However, Thompson’s story was unusual in three ways. First, it was the product of a man whose upbringing and opinions gave him a unique perspective on the Shakers. Second, it was a fictional literary treatment of the Shakers, of which there had been very few up to that date. And last, Thompson’s story was destined to be turned into a stage play, albeit one with a somewhat different set of messages than in the original story.

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

6

Issue

2

First Page

75

Last Page

92

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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