Frances Newman: Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel

by Barbara Ann Wade

Book Overview

This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance.

Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic H. L. Mencken. Her experimental novels The Hard-Boiled Virgin (1926) and Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers (1928), have recently begun to receive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817309020
• ISBN13: 9780817309022
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"