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Book Synopsis This literary history focuses on five women writers--Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Laura Adams Armer, Peggy Pond Church and Alice Marriott--whose work appeared from around 1900 through the 1980s. All came from or lived and worked in California, Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma. The book situates them in their time and place and examines their interactions with landscapes, people, art and history. Their interest in fine arts and native arts and crafts is stressed, as well as their concern for the environment.
Trade ReviewNeglected and overlooked as a California author, Laura Arner deserves a second life. Brosman gives that to her. The Arizona years, the years lived in close conjunction with the Navajo, are spellbinding.""-Constance Rowell Mastores, author of
A Deep But Dazzling Darkness""Brosman explores deftly and sympathetically the fiction of five women who wrote of the American Southwest, revealing that these ostensibly 'regional' works, so rich in texture of time and place, deal compellingly with universal themes.""-Allen Frederick Stein, North Carolina State University, author of
After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism.
