Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927

by Nina Baym

Book Overview

Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035976
• ISBN13: 9780252035975
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"