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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 that room was an elegant study, and sometimes a corner of the kitchen.
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
