A critical study of 19th century women writers of New England, (orig. pub. 1983) evaluates the originality of the group that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Annie Fields, Rose Terry Cooke, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orner Jewett, Mary E. Wilkes [Freeman].
Author Biography
Josephine Donovan is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maine, USA. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including the groundbreaking Feminist Theory (Continuum, 3rd ed, 2000), Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (St. Martin's Press, 1999), and After the Fall (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989).
