[1] In both of Read's novels, a virtuous teenage female protagonist suffers various tribulations in Philadelphia before triumph and marriage.

A teenage Monima Fontanbleu must care for her elderly father, once a planter in Saint Domingo, and suffers from a difficulty to find work and the plotting of her former employer.

[2] The downfall of proud and wealthy characters in this novel might have been inspired by Federalist relatives of Read who lost influence upon the election of Thomas Jefferson.

[3] Margaretta; or, the Intricacies of the Heart (1807) begins in Elkton, Maryland but its protagonist soon relocates to Philadelphia, then Santo Domingo, and finally England.

She is the subject to the attention of a pair of rakes, imprisoned on a plantation, and nearly marries a man whom she discovers is her own biological father.