Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century (2019)

Edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius

From Routledge.com: “Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, is a collection of essays that offer a fresh perspective and original analyses of texts by American women writers of the long nineteenth century. The essays, which are written both by European and American scholars, discuss fiction by marginalized authors including Yolanda DuBois (African American fairy tales), Laura E. Richards (children’s literature), Metta Fuller Victor (dime novels/ detective fiction), and other pioneering writers of science fiction, gothic tales, and life narratives. The works covered by this collection represent the rough and ragged realities that women and girls in the nineteenth century experienced; the writings focus on their education, family life, on girls as victims of class prejudice as well as sexual and racial violence, but they also portray girls and women as empowering agents, survivors, and leaders. They do so with a high-voltage creative charge.”

Now available from Routledge.

Khristeena’s article, “Embracing Ambiguity: Navigating the Liminal Waters of Grace King’s ‘The Little Convert Girl’” is Chapter 4.