Fiction by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Subtitle: A New England Sampler (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780815331896
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Fiction anthologies & collections; Literary studies: 19th century; Women's studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Women As Authors (American Literature); Literary Criticism; American English; Fiction; USA; New England; Anthologies (multiple authors); Literary Criticism & Collections / General; American fiction; 19th century; Women; Women Authors
First sentence: Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, the seventh child of Lyman Beecher and his first wife Roxanna Foote, Harriet Beecher spent her early years, and for that matter most of her life, in an environment dominated by ministers and educators.