Catharine Littlefield Greene

Catharine Littlefield Greene was the wife of Revolutionary general Nathanael Greene and later a plantation manager and supporter of Eli Whitney’s work. 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.