The Women Who Make Our Novels
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Grant M. Overton
(4,5 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)
”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918. (Summary taken from the Introduction by MaryAnn) (10 hr 20 min)
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sarahm
(4 Sterne)
This book kept me company while doing my holiday baking. I have listened to it twice in a quest to discover new authors and books for my listening pleasure. The opening years of the Twentieth Century certainly produced a diverse selection of American women authors. While Edna Ferber related the challenges of ordinary working women, Edith Wharton... I don't know what to say about her books. They don't make me laugh or cry. They seem as un-living as portraits, portraits the hold your attention. Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anna Katharine Green entertained with memorable mysteries. They could make me smile. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gene Stratton-Porter, Eleanor H. Porter and Kate Douglas Wiggin gave the world memorable young characters. As a child, The Secret Garden and Little Princess were my absolute favorite books. I love them still and cannot read either with a tear or two. I have rarely been to Indiana, but have fallen in love with Stratton-Porter's Limberlost. These are the authors I knew best before listening to this book. Many of their novels are available for download. I am grateful for these author sketches. They introduced me to many more authors whose books I desire to read.