A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922
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 introductionIn 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.
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A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922
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 introductionIn 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.
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A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922

A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922

by Susan Cummins Miller (Editor)
A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922

A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922

by Susan Cummins Miller (Editor)

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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 introductionIn 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780896726185
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2007
Series: Voice in the American West
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 462
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Susan Cummins Miller is also the author of the Frankie MacFarlane Mysteries (TTUP). She worked as a field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and taught geology and oceanography before turning to writing full time. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, where the kinship she feels to frontier women writers continues to inspire her work.
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