Introduction — a roundtable on The Woman of Colour (1808) : pedagogic and critical approaches (Roundtable) by Sinanan, Kerry

“…Instead we have a concluding dialogue in which the fictional editor tells “a friend” that the purpose of the novel is to show how “virtue, like Olivia Fairfield’s, may truly be said to be its own reward.”1 And so The Woman of Col-our explicitly resituates eighteenth-century female virtue in an independent, legally unmar-ried woman—a woman of color, who leaves England for her home in Jamaica to pursue a better life. …”
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