American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology

Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices. Included in the collection are works by New Englanders Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, Tennessean Mary Noailles Murfree, New Orleans writers Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Native American Zitkala-Sa, and Western writers Sui Sin Far and Mary Austin, among others. Together these writers enable readers to reconstruct a women's tradition of sketches and short stories from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Willa Cather. To help contextualize the stories and sketches, Pryse and Fetterley provide a general introduction, biographical/critical headnotes, and bibliographies for further reading. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896): Uncle Lot; Pearl of Orr's island Alice Cary (1820-1871): Preface to Clovernook; Uncle Christopher's Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892): Freedom Wheeler's controversy with Providence; Miss Beulah's bonnet Celia Thaxter (1835-1894): Among the isles of shoals Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909): Deephaven; White heron Mary Noialles Murfree (1850-1922): Star in the valley; Over on the t'other mounting Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930): On the Walpole Road; Mistaken charity Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932): Balcony; Drama of three Kate Chopin (1851-1904): At the 'Cadian Ball; Madame Celestin's divorce Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935): Goodness of Saint Rocque; M'sieu Fortier's violin Sui Sin Far [Edith Maud Eaton] (1867-1914): Sing song woman; Mrs. Spring fragrance Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (1876-1938): Impressions of an Indian childhood; School days of an Indian girl Mary Austin (1868-1934): Land of little rain; Basket maker Willa Cather (1873-1947): Old Mrs. Harris List of works cited Chronology of first regional publications