American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology

by Fetterley, Judith; Pryse, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780393313635
• ISBN10: 0393313638
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Uncle Lot	p. 4
The Pearl of Orr's Island	p. 24
Oldtown Folks	p. 37
The Minister's Housekeeper	p. 47
Preface to Clovernook	p. 60
Uncle Christopher's	p. 61
Passages from the Married Life of Eleanor Homes	p. 80
Freedom Wheeler's Controversy with Providence	p. 94
Miss Beulah's Bonnet	p. 122
How Celia Changed Her Mind	p. 137
Among the Isles of Shoals	p. 156
Deephaven	p. 187
A White Heron	p. 197
The Country of the Pointed Firs	p. 205
The Queen's Twin	p. 220
The Foreigner	p. 234
The Star in the Valley	p. 256
Over on the T'other Mounting	p. 272
The 'Harnt' That Walks Chilhowee	p. 286
On the Walpole Road	p. 306
A Mistaken Charity	p. 314
Sister Liddy	p. 323
A Village Singer	p. 333
A Church Mouse	p. 344
A New England Nun	p. 356
A Poetess	p. 365
The Balcony	p. 380
A Drama of Three	p. 381
La Grande Demoiselle	p. 386
"One of Us"	p. 390
The Old Lady's Restoration	p. 394
Pupasse	p. 399
At the 'Cadian Ball	p. 411
Madame Celestin's Divorce	p. 418
A Gentleman of Bayou Teche	p. 421
Odalie Misses Mass	p. 426
Ozeme's Holiday	p. 430
Lilacs	p. 435
The Awakening	p. 444
The Storm	p. 447
A Little Country Girl	p. 451
The Goodness of Saint Rocque	p. 461
M'sieu Fortier's Violin	p. 465
Mr. Baptiste	p. 470
Sister Josepha	p. 474
The Praline Woman	p. 480
The Stones of the Village	p. 481
The Sing Song Woman	p. 502
Mrs. Spring Fragrance	p. 505
The Inferior Woman	p. 515
"Its Wavering Image"	p. 526
Impressions of an Indian Childhood	p. 535
The School Days of an Indian Girl	p. 548
The Trial Path	p. 559
The Land of Little Rain	p. 567
The Basket Maker	p. 572
The Walking Woman	p. 577
The Return of Mr. Wills	p. 583
The Land	p. 588
Old Mrs. Harris	p. 597
List of Works Cited	p. 639
Chronology of First Regional Publications	p. 640
Selected Bibliography	p. 641
Index	p. 647
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