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Ezell critically examines these successful women's literary histories and applies to them the same self-conscious feminism that critics have applied to more tra

Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship bent on rediscovering lost and abandoned women writers, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women'

"The essays provide new research into women's literary history from the late seventeenth century to the Modernist period covering topics such as women's science

Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty