ABSTRACT
The epilogue summarizes the book’s argument and addresses the reputation of American women’s writing in twenty-first-century Britain as a symptom of a wider search among Britons for what British identity might mean in the twenty-first century. The epilogue considers cases such as the success of Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Edith Wharton in entering British university curriculum and criticism; the relative dearth of books by other US women writers in UK university libraries; and shifting ideas about whether US books should be on school examination lists. I argue that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reviewers read American women’s writing astutely and found new things in texts, and twenty-first-century Britons can as well.
