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After the Western Reserve: The Ohio Fiction of Jessie Brown Pounds
After the Western Reserve The Ohio Fiction of Jessie Brown Pounds Author:Jessie Brown Pounds, Sandra Parker This chronologically selected anthology provides a representative selection of texts that makes accessible the literary achievement of a "lost" author who wrote to preserve Ohio's rural village culture as the nineteenth century drew to a close. The anthology explores contemporary idioms in a "local color" style and deserves to be resurrected in ... more »order to remind modern students how Middle-Western culture, indeed, included women writers as social critics and mythmakers. Included are five short stories written in 1889, five sketches that compose "Hillsbury Folks" and were written in 1911, one undated short story published posthumously in 1921, and a first-person historic novel written in 1904, Rachael Sylvestre, that depicts the emerging culture of Ohio's Western Reserve in the 1820s. All deserve reprinting because they offer superb, realistic insights into Ohio's village life.« less