num_pages: 360
description: Includes pieces by Lisa Alther, Doris Betts, Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons, Gail Godwin, Caroline Gordon, Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Eudora WeltyThis anthology reveals the pattern of friendship and sustaining encouragement that unites many of the most distinguished women authors of the American South.Included here are essays, reviews, and appreciations that express the reciprocal admiration, the encouragement, the beneficial influence, and the tutelage that nurtured them and fostered their careers.In showing the interweaving of the social and artistic relations between these writers, this collection makes a consequential revelation that will enrich southern literary history.
language: English
title: Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers
titlecomplete: Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers
ratings_count: 2
publisher: University Press of Mississippi