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Doing Literary Business

American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century

Susan Coultrap-McQuin

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/2000
Pages: 269
Subject: History | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807860892

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Coultrap-McQuin investigates the reasons for women's unprecedented literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gail Hamilton, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. She examines the cultural milieu of women writers, the ideals and practices of the literary marketplace, and the characteristics of women's literary activities that brought them success.

Originally published in 1990.

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