Author: Julie Flavell

Born 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.

Letters and Correspondence Posted on June 2, 2021June 4, 2021

A Howe Woman Celebrates the Glory of the First of June, 1794

The letters of Caroline Howe in the British Library have for the first time revealed the private life of her brother, Adm. Richard Lord Howe, the hero of the Glorious First of June and commander-in-chief of the British fleet in America, 1776-1778. Howe has so baffled naval historians that Sam Willis labelled him “obsessively secretive” […]

by Julie Flavell