Julie Flavell

Julie Flavell

Born the U.S. and raised in Massachusetts, Julie Flavell has pursued a lifelong interest in Anglo-American relations in the age of the American Revolution, as reflected in her first book, When London Was Capital of America (Yale University Press, 2010). A Fellow of the Royal Society, she obtained her Ph.D. from University College London. She has lectured in American history at Edinburgh and Dundee Universities. Flavell lives with her husband in Britain.

A recently discovered portrait believed to be of Jane Strachey, English School, c.1788

What an Englishwoman's Letters Reveal About Life in Britain During the American Revolution

A new book highlights the writings of Jane Strachey, a middle-class woman whose husband worked for the famed Howe family

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