Sarah Revere

Sarah Revere was a daughter of Paul Revere who grew up in Boston during the American Revolution and appears in family records from the period. The surviving record places this person within the historical events represented in Ann Rinaldi’s fiction.

Historical fiction may reconstruct private conversations, motives and emotional responses that sources do not preserve. The relationship is included because the person is portrayed under a real historical identity, while invented details should not be treated as documentary biography.