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Additional authors

1. Parker, Sandra (Sandra A.)

Description

1. viii, 240 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. This chronologically selected anthology of eight literary women provides an inclusive text that makes accessible a literary tradition which begins with lost aspects of frontier life in the 1830s written by contemporaries Julia L. Dumont and Pamilla W. Ball and ends with Jessie Brown Pounds' retrospective re-creation of the Western Reserve's frontier culture at the century's close. Ohio (as well as New England and the South) was a region where a self-conscious literary tradition was cultivated.
2. The writers in this volume explore Ohio's places and contemporary idioms in a variety of styles, yet they all attempt to define the frontier experience from their particular perspectives as Ohio women.

Subject

1. Frontier and pioneer life > Ohio > Fiction
2. Domestic fiction, American > Ohio
3. American fiction > Women authors
4. American fiction > 19th century
5. Country life > Ohio > Fiction
6. American fiction > Ohio
7. Ohio > Social life and customs > Fiction

Contents

1. The Picture -- Aunt Hetty / Julia L. Dumont -- A Tale of Early Times -- Maid of the Muskingum / Pamilla W. Ball -- The Indian Martyrs / Caroline Lee Hentz -- In Which It Appears That the Senator Is But a Man / Herriet Beecher Stowe -- Mrs. Wetherbe's Party / Alice Cary -- The Stirring Off -- Rose Day / Mary Hartwell Catherwood -- Solomon -- Wilhelmina / Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Hillsbury Folks - The Scalawag -- Trouble at Craydocks Corners.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.