Reviews for Domestic novelists in the Old South

The average rating for Domestic novelists in the Old South based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-13 00:00:00 James Walkley Women who broke with the tradition of silence and invisibility to write and be heard: Eudora Welty, Willa Cather, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett. Important women's studies, domestic science work. Some treatment of cooking and occasionally of quilting, and more commonly housework as ritual that maintained order and gave women a sense of control. Really good.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-12 00:00:00 Renate Scott These were not the sorts of women authors I was hoping to encounter, but their perspective is really interesting to me. They had so much anxiety over finding a balance between being a writer, and adhering to the norms of society that relegated them to the home and hearth.