A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800–1922 (Voice in the American West) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896726185 ISBN 13: 9780896726185

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In this book are bits and pieces of dreams, lives, experiences, and vistas, like squares cut from old cloth and assembled into a crazy quilt of writing styles and forms. The patchwork design mirrors both the complexity of the chroniclers and the stark lines and angles of the American frontier. ―Susan Cummins Miller, from the introduction In this anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier, Miller assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity. Variously addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism, these writers offer up a different frontier, one that focuses on women’s experiences as much as men’s. In brief biographical and historical introductions to each writer, Miller shares insights and context as engaging as the selections themselves.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Cummins Miller, a former field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and college instructor, is a research affiliate and SIROW Scholar with the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women. In addition to the Frankie MacFarlane mysteries, she is the editor of A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800–1922 (TTUP, 2007). She lives in Tucson.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896726185
• ISBN 13: 9780896726185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 462
• Editor: Miller Susan Cummins