Title: Southern women's writing : colonial to contemporary /
Authors: Weaks-Baxter, Mary.; Perry, Carolyn.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 1995
Subjects: American literature Southern States; Women Southern States Literary collections.; American literature Women authors; Southern States Literary collections.; Southern States Civilization.
Abstract: Discusses the lives of major southern women authors and presents an example of the work of each.
Contents: [The Antebellum South (to 1861)] -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722?-1793) -- Eliza Wilkinson (1757-?) -- Anne Newport Royall (1769-1854) -- Caroline Howard Gilman (1794-1888) -- Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) -- Susan Petigru King Bowen (1824-1875) -- Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) -- Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) -- Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) -- [The Civil War South (1861-1865)] -- Mary Boykin Chestnut (1823-1886) -- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) -- Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897) -- Elizabeth Keckley (1825-1905) -- [The Postbellum South (1866-1917)] -- Katherine McDowell (Sherwood Bonner) (1849-1883) -- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddack) (1850-1922) -- Grace King (1851?-1932) -- Kate Chopin (1851-1904) -- Julia Mood Peterkin (1880-1961) -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) -- [The modern South (1918-1960)] -- Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) -- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) -- Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960) -- Carson McCullers (1917-1967) -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) -- Eudora Welty (1909- ) -- [The contemporary South (1961-to the present)] -- Margaret Walker (1915- ) -- Doris Betts (1932- ) -- Sonia Sanchez (1934- ) -- Alice Walker (1944- ) -- Bobbie Ann Mason (1940- ) -- Mab Segrest (1949- ) -- Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) -- Leigh Allison Wilson (1959- ).