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Review Of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women In America, 1850-1900, Melissa J. Homestead
Review Of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women In America, 1850-1900, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Like Naomi Z. Sofer's Making the America of Art (2005) and Anne E. Boyd's Writing for Immorality (2004), Susan Williams Reclaiming Authorship seeks to recreate and analyze how American women authors in the second half of the nineteenth century understood their own authorship. All three include Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Constance Fenimore Woolson as subjects, but Williams includes authors who did not conceive of their authorship in a high cultural mode (Maria Cummins, Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Abigail Dodge), and she traverses the careers of Alcott and Phelps so as to emphasize their movements in and out of …
Willa Cather [From The Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History], Melissa J. Homestead
Willa Cather [From The Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History], Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
American novelist, Born in Virginia, Cather moved with her family to Nebraska in 1883 and is best known as a novelist of the American prairie. However, her life history and literary output belie this characterization. As a student at the University of Nebraska she published short stories and poems and worked as a journalist. This experience earned her a position at the Home Monthly magazine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When the magazine failed, she stayed in Pittsburgh, first returning to newspaper journalism and then teaching high school. For several years she lived in the family home of Isabelle McClung, a young …
Louisa May Alcott [From Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History], Melissa J. Homestead
Louisa May Alcott [From Oxford Encyclopedia Of Women In World History], Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
American fiction writer best known as the author of the girls’ novel Little Women (1868-1869). Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, to Abigail May Alcott and the progressive educator Bronson Alcott. The March family of Little Women was an idealized version of her own family, which was far less stable and more mobile. Alcott’s father’s idealistic education, and reform ventures regularly failed, necessitating the family’s frequent moves, and she and her mother increasingly provided the family’s economic support. Her childhood and adolescence were split primarily between Concord and Boston, Massachusetts, where she was deeply influenced by members of her father’s …