American women prose writers to 1820 /

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Imprint:Detroit : Gale Research, c1999.
Language:English
Series:Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 200
Subject:American prose literature -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
American prose literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
Women and literature -- United States -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
Women authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11022795
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Other authors / contributors:Mulford, Carla, 1955-
Vietto, Angela.
Winans, Amy E.
ISBN:0787618551 (alk. paper)
Notes:"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."
Includes cumulative index to DLB, vols. 1-200, DLB yearbook, 1980-1997, and DLB documentary series, vols. 1-18).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-468).
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Review by Choice Review

As an introduction to women writers in Colonial and early national periods of American society, this volume is invaluable. Acknowledging the predominance of white Anglo-American writers in the 59 entries, editors Mulford and Vietto (Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Winans (Susquehanna Univ.) selected a broad range of writers who receive scholarly attention. Other criteria include location (New England, southern states, the Western frontier, and the Caribbean) and use of major prose genres--diaries, letters, memoirs, captivity narratives, conduct literature, botanical and religious writing. An appendix, "Woman's Work, Woman's Sphere: Selected Comments from Women Writers," offers primary material. Highly recommended. N. Knipe Colorado College

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Volume 200 in the series profiles early writers, such as Mary Rowlandson, famous for her captivity narrative; and popular sentimental novelists Hannah Foster and Susanna Rowson. Among those discussed in volume 201 are Ian Fleming and Graham Greene, apparently avid book collectors as well as novelists. The foreword to volume 200 states: "The Editorial Directors are frequently asked when the DLB will run out of material. Never."

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