num_pages: 672
description: Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices. Included in the collection are works by New Englanders Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, Tennessean Mary Noailles Murfree, New Orleans writers Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Native American Zitkala-Sa, and Western writers Sui Sin Far and Mary Austin, among others. Together these writers enable readers to reconstruct a women's tradition of sketches and short stories from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Willa Cather. To help contextualize the stories and sketches, Pryse and Fetterley provide a general introduction, biographical/critical headnotes, and bibliographies for further reading.Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896): Uncle Lot; Pearl of Orr's islandAlice Cary (1820-1871): Preface to Clovernook; Uncle Christopher'sRose Terry Cooke (1827-1892): Freedom Wheeler's controversy with Providence; Miss Beulah's bonnetCelia Thaxter (1835-1894): Among the isles of shoalsSarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909): Deephaven; White heronMary Noialles Murfree (1850-1922): Star in the valley; Over on the t'other mountingMary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930): On the Walpole Road; Mistaken charityGrace Elizabeth King (1852-1932): Balcony; Drama of threeKate Chopin (1851-1904): At the 'Cadian Ball; Madame Celestin's divorceAlice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935): Goodness of Saint Rocque; M'sieu Fortier's violinSui Sin Far [Edith Maud Eaton] (1867-1914): Sing song woman; Mrs. Spring fragranceZitkala-Sa [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938): Impressions of an Indian childhood; School days of an Indian girlMary Austin (1868-1934): Land of little rain; Basket makerWilla Cather (1873-1947): Old Mrs. HarrisList of works citedChronology of first regional publications
language: English
title: American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology
titlecomplete: American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology
ratings_count: 23
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company