Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920
- ISBN-10
- 0813917794
- ISBN-13
- 9780813917795
- Series
- Writing Home
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 254
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Mary Suzanne Schriber
Description
"Writing Home is an important contribution to American literary studies. Schriber does a fine job of embedding American women's travel writing in the larger tradition of the genre, and her forthright and accessible style will make this book valuable to scholars and students in the field". -- Richard S. Lowry, College of William and Mary
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