A Sherwood Bonner Sampler 1869-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively, Snappy Young Woman Can Say on a Variety of Topics

by Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell

The Mississippi-born author Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) has long been recognized as one of the pioneers in dialect fiction, but she and her work faded from memory as literary tastes shifted away from this popular nineteenth-century genre. Although her career was cut short by her early death, Bonner left a significant body of published work, most of it buried in periodical archives. This book, which adds significantly to the current...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572330678
• ISBN13: 9781572330672
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"