Private woman, public stage

By Mary Kelley

Subjects: American fiction, Women authors, American fiction, women authors, Biography, Women, Intellectual life, American Authors, American Domestic fiction, Books and reading, Domestic fiction, history and criticism, American fiction, history and criticism, Sex differences, Women in literature, Authorship, History and criticism, American Women authors, History, Women and literature, Privacy in literature, Public opinion in literature, Sex role in literature

Description: "Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance."--BOOK JACKET.