Modern Women, Modern Work
Subtitle: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 (Rethinking the Americas)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780812237436
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 19th Century; Gender Studies; Social Science; English; Sociology; USA; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Employment; Women and literature; American literature; History; History and criticism; United States; Women; Women Authors
First sentence: In her preface to the 1893 edition of Deephaven, Sarah Orne Jewett describes her call to vocation some twenty years earlier as having arisen out of her "dark fear that townspeople and country people would never understand one another."