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Hardcover Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America Book

ISBN: 0801878756

ISBN13: 9780801878756

Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

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Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves...

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