This collection of critical essays examines the contributions to and influences on literature that have been made by Southern women writers.--From publisher des

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

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