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Subtitle: Ohio's nineteenth-century regional women's fiction
By: [compiled by] Sandra Parker.
Contributors: Parker, Sandra
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bowling Green, OH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Domestic fiction, American; American fiction -- Women authors; American fiction -- 19th century; Country life -- Fiction; American fiction -- Ohio; Ohio -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: This chronologically selected anthology of eight literary women provides an inclusive text that makes accessible a literary tradition which begins with lost aspects of frontier life in the 1830s written by contemporaries Julia L. Dumont and Pamilla W. Ball and ends with Jessie Brown Pounds' retrospective re-creation of the Western Reserve's frontier culture at the century's close. Ohio (as well as New England and the South) was a region where a self-conscious literary tradition was cultivated.

The writers in this volume explore Ohio's places and contemporary idioms in a variety of styles, yet they all attempt to define the frontier experience from their particular perspectives as Ohio women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The picture / Julia L. Dumont; title: Aunt Hetty / Julia L. Dumont; title: A tale of early times / Pamilla W. Ball; title: Maid of the Muskingum / Pamilla W. Ball; title: The Indian martyrs / Caroline Lee Hentz; title: The senator is but a man / Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: Mrs. Wetherbe's quilting party / Alice Cary; title: The stirring off / Mary Hartwell Catherwood; title: Rose day / Mary Hartwell Catherwood; title: Solomon / Constance Fenimore Woolson; title: Wilhelmina / Constance Fenimore Woolson; title: Hillsbury folks; title: the scalawag / Jessie Brown Pounds; title: Trouble at Craydocks Corners / Jessie Brown Pounds.