April 10, 2009
The Literary Tradition of Women
Q&A With Elaine Showalter
It's time to move on to the next stage of assessing women's literature. That's Elaine Showalter's message in her new book, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Knopf), a 600-page survey of known and not-so-known authors. The title comes from an early 20th-century play-turned-short story by a Des Moines reporter, Susan Glaspell. In it, two farm women accompany county officials to the home of a miserly recluse who
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