ABSTRACT
In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of women’s nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. The essays in this collection consider the development of women’s public voices, relationships between women essayists and their editors and readers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |20 pages
“Thumping Against the Glittering Wall of Limitations”:
Lydia Maria Child’s “Letters from New York”
chapter |20 pages
“We Must Be about Our Father’s Business”:
Anna Julia Cooper and the In-Corporation of the Nineteenth-Century African-American Woman Intellectual
chapter |16 pages
“I Thought From the Way You Writ, That You Were a Great Six-Footer of a Woman”:
Gender and the Public Voice in Fanny Fern’s Newspaper Essays
chapter |16 pages
Excising the Text, Exorcising the Author:
Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
