American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870

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American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870 is written by Barbara A. White and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136290923 (ISBN 10) and 9781136290923 (ISBN 13).

An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately 325 19th century writers who meet those criteria. There are indexes by pseudonym, editor, and subject. The sources provide information not only about the individual authors but also about the history of criticism and literary politics, especially women's place in the American literary canon.