Private Woman, Public Stage
Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America
By Mary Kelley
With a new preface by the author
432 pp., 6 x 9, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-5422-8
Published: September 2002 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1738-1
Published: November 2017 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7682-9
Published: November 2017
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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.
About the Author
Mary Kelley is a Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among her most recent books are The Portable Margaret Fuller and The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
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Reviews
"Kelley offers a richly detailed account plentiful with new findings."--American Historical Review
"The beauty of Private Woman, Public Stage is its artful merging of U.S. history, women's history, and literature."--Choice
"An illuminating and sensitive analysis of those complex women and their place in American culture."--Journal of American History
"In Kelley's deft hands, the writers' contributions to subsequent generations seem even more profound. . . . Those who enter the world of Southworth, Stowe, and the other literary domestics will be grateful that these women novelists did not after all remain (to paraphrase one of them) in the obscurity of their homes."--Women's Review of Books