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Book Synopsis Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-sufficiency in days when they had little. By way of their poetry, essays, advice columns, investigative journalism and more, women like Helen Keller, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Shirley Jackson wrote not only to entertain and inform, but often to simply keep a roof over their heads.
This text offers a unique examination of female New England writers, focusing on their homes. The women wrote in many genres and became literary entrepreneurs, bargaining with editors for higher fees and royalties, participating in marketing campaigns, and seeking advice and help. The homes women bought with their earnings included cottages, suburban houses, farms, and an occasional mansion. Whether modest or luxurious, these houses provided the room of her own that Virginia Woolf said every woman needs in order to write. Sometimes
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Connecticut
- 1. Helen Keller
- 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 3. Ida Tarbell
- Maine
- 4. Sarah Orne Jewett
- 5. Mary McCarthy and Elizabeth Hardwick
- 6. Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 7. Celia Thaxter
- Massachusetts
- 8. Louisa May Alcott
- 9. Emily Dickinson
- 10. Sojourner Truth
- 11. Edith Wharton
- New Hampshire
- 12. Mary Baker Eddy
- 13. Sarah Josepha Hale
- 14. Grace Metalious
- Rhode Island
- 15. Elleanor Eldridge and Frances Green
- 16. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 17. Cynthia Taggart
- Vermont
- 18. Shirley Jackson
- 19. Grace Paley
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
