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Pioneers & Caretakers: A Study of 9 American Women Novelists
Pioneers Caretakers A Study of 9 American Women Novelists Author:Louis Auchincloss Louis Auchincloss here offers essays, written with the special sensitivity of a fellow novelist, on nine first-rank American writiers -- all of them women. His assessments of their books, and of how each writer fits into the larger scheme of our national literature, are gracefully presented and exceptionally acute. — Auchincloss offers new insigh... more »ts into well-known authors Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, and Mary McCarthy. His appraisals of the less well-known Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jean Stafford, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts serve as useful introductions to these writers and will surely lead many to read their books for the first time. These essays are, in the best sense of the word, appreciations.
In a new preface written especially for this paperback edition, Auchincloss explains his position in the ongoing debate about special critical considerations for fiction by women.« less