Fetterley, Judith : State University of New York at Albany
Judith Fetterley teaches American literature and women's studies at the State University of New York at Albany.
Pryse, Marjorie : State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
Marjorie Pryse teaches American literature and women's studies at the State University of New York College at
Plattsburgh.
Summary
A vibrant tradition�long neglected�is brought back to readers in this generous and rich collection.
Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to
trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by
writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will
find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices.
Included in the collection are works by New Englanders Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, Tennessean
Mary Noailles Murfree, New Orleans writers Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Native American Zitkala-Sa, and
Western writers Sui Sin Far and Mary Austin, among others. Together these writers enable readers to reconstruct
a women's tradition of sketches and short stories from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Willa Cather.
To help contextualize the stories and sketches, Pryse and Fetterley provide a general introduction, biographical/critical
headnotes, and bibliographies for further reading.