Wide-ranging, admirably researched, and accessible, this volume of essays locates women writers firmly in the center of the hurly-burly of literary and economic

Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for women's unprecedented literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of E.D.E.N.

Nineteenth-century American women’s culture was immersed in religious experience and female authors of the era employed representations of faith to various cu

Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Webe

Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.