| Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers Contributor(s): Magee, Rosemary M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0878055452 ISBN-13: 9780878055456 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1992 Annotation: An anthology of reviews, essays, and appreciations that reveal the links uniting the careers of many noted southern women writers |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 810.997 |
| LCCN: 91025615 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.95" W x 9.04" (1.15 lbs) 360 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Includes pieces by Lisa Alther, Doris Betts, Ellen Douglas, Kaye Gibbons, Gail Godwin, Caroline Gordon, Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, Bobbie Ann Mason, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty This anthology reveals the pattern of friendship and sustaining encouragement that unites many of the most distinguished women authors of the American South. Included here are essays, reviews, and appreciations that express the reciprocal admiration, the encouragement, the beneficial influence, and the tutelage that nurtured them and fostered their careers. In showing the interweaving of the social and artistic relations between these writers, this collection makes a consequential revelation that will enrich southern literary history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Magee, Rosemary M.: - Rosemary M. Magee is associate dean of Emory College and is editor of Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers and Conversations with Flannery O'Connor, both published by University Press of Mississippi. |