Grace Aguilar’s works include children and young adult literature comprising poetry, short stories, novels, drama, religious polemics, essays, and biographies. She was regularly published in religious and popular journals, during and after her lifetime, alongside popular writers like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens. In the American literary marketplace, she was active in nineteenth-century literary circles via the Jewish communities and intellectual hubs of the East Coast, thanks to Jewish American writers and thinkers, both male and female. Her Jewish and English historical romances revise many of the gender and nationalist concerns of popular Gothic novels, like Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian (1797), and popular Historical Novels, like Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs (1809). Aguilar’s literature also anticipates the Victorian gender and religious concerns in popular novels, like Charlotte Bronte’s Villette(1853). Though she died very young at 31, Aguilar’s canon was...