Conflicts of Interest: The Letters of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered nineteenth-century novelist, broke many of the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Hispanics in the southwestern territories of the United States. Not only was she the first Hispanic novelist to write in English, but her courage and resolve took her into the circles of governmental and financial power where very few women had tread before.
Conflicts of Interest captures the conflicted personality of María Amparo Rui...