Faraway Women and the "Atlantic Monthly"

by Cathryn Halverson

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 Thomas J. Lyon Award from the Western Literature Association
In the first decades of the twentieth century, famed Atlantic Monthly editor Ellery Sedgwick chose to publish a group of nontraditional writers he later referred to as "Faraway Women," working-class authors living in the western United States far from his base in Boston. Cathryn Halverson surveys these enormously popular Atlantic contributors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625344554
• ISBN13: 9781625344557
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher