Domesticity with a difference
Marriage in literature
American prose literature, history and criticism
Prose
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
Families in literature
Family in literature
Prosa
American prose literature
Historiographie
Sex role in literature
Historiography
Essays
Frau
Women and literature
Femmes
Literary collections
Women authors
Histoire et critique
Criticism and interpretation
Women
History and criticism
History
This study of nonfiction written by four of nineteenth century America's first professional women writers investigates the paradoxes posed by the conflict of their texts with their lives. They were not homemakers yet in their works they prescribed ideal domesticity for the women of their day. They w…
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