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

" For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as "little" magaz

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work - written and social, tangible and intangible - produced by American women. Furthe