Title: Sharing secrets
Description: "In this book, Palumbo-DeSimone considers the place of American women's short fiction in nineteenth-century literary and popular culture. Resisting the narrow focus on content prevalent in feminist criticism, the book instead explores the long-overlooked role of short-story structure in women's popular fiction.".

"The study reveals how the female world ultimately defined what constituted a "story" for nineteenth-century women, and presents a way for today's reader to approach these sometimes puzzling works of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Short stories, History and criticism, Women authors, English Short stories, Women and literature, English fiction, American fiction, History, Female friendship in literature, Nouvelles américaines, Histoire et critique, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Roman américain, Roman anglais, Nouvelles anglaises, Amitié féminine dans la littérature, Écrits de femmes américains, Écrits de femmes anglais, Frauenprosa, Kurzgeschichte, Geschichte 1800-1900, Friendship in literature, Women in literature, American fiction, history and criticism, American fiction, women authors
Places: English-speaking countries
Time periods: 19th century