American Women Short Story Writers
Subtitle: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780815313380
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Short stories, American; American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Essays; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; History and criticism
First sentence: Fifteen months after retiring from a tumultuous two-year editorship of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, Lydia Maria Child voiced astonishment over the literary success of Letters from New York (1845), a collection of journalistic transcedental essays first printed in the pages of her abolitionist newspaper.