PIONEERS AND CARETAKERs: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists
by Auchincloss, Louis
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Minneapolis:: University of Minnesota Press,, (1955). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a good dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj, price-clipped).. First printing. A collection of essays which focus on the work of 9 major American women writers of the late 19th and 20th centuries - Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy - in their dual roles as conservationists of American culture and as literary pioneers. Index. 202 pp.
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- Title
- PIONEERS AND CARETAKERs: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists
- Author
- Auchincloss, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a good dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj, price-clipped).
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press,
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis:
- Date Published
- (1955)
- Keywords
- Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, Carson McCullers, Mary McCarthy , essays, women authors,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary criticism and theory;
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