Title Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South / Catherine Kerrison.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HQ1438.S63 K47 2006	Available	---

Description	xiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-258) and index.
Contents	Toward an intellectual history of early Southern women -- "The truest kind of breeding" : prescriptive literature in the early South -- Religion, voice, and authority -- Reading novels in the South -- Reading, race, and writing -- The enduring problem of female authorship and authority.
Subject	Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	Women.
	Southern States.
	Intellectual life.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Women -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
	Women -- Books and reading.
	History.
	Women authors, American -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
	Women authors, American.
	Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
	Women and literature.
	American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	080144344X cloth alkaline paper
	9780801443442 cloth alkaline paper