High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield, is a novel, originally published in 1767, under the pseudonym of the main character/narrator, Unca Eliza Winkfield and edited in recent editions by Michelle Burnham. The novel describes the adventures of a half-Native American, half-English woman, who is shipwrecked on a deserted isle. The protagonist uses her knowledge of Christianity to convert the indigenous inhabitants on the island as part of her survival mode.