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American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869
American Women Authors and Literary Property 18221869 Author:Melissa J. Homestead Melissa Homestead's exhaustively researched study traces the very different ways in which five successful white women writers maneuvered within coverture--which applied to women only--and economic and legal circumstances experienced by all antebellum American writers. Homestead not only shows how essential gender is to any account of American li... more »terary history worth its salt. She models the kind of intensive historical research required for understanding how property rights, gender and race played out in individual writers' work and lives.« less