New England local color literature : a women's tradition / [print]
Josephine Donovan.
- New York : F. Ungar Pub. Company, (c)1983.
- ix, 158 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Toward the local colorists: a theoretical sketch of their sources -- Toward the local colorists: Early American women's traditions -- Annie Adams Fields and her network of influence -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the emergence of a female Arcadia -- Rose Terry Cooke: impoverished wives and spirited spinsters -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: burglars in paradise -- Sarah Orne Jewett and the world of the mothers -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the tree of knowledge.
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American literature--History and criticism.--New England American literature--History and criticism.--19th century Women and literature--History--New England--19th century. Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England. Local color in literature. Realism in literature. Feminism and literature.