Hagar

The first female novelist to top twentieth-century best-seller lists, Mary Johnston was also one of the most prominent and interesting southern suffragists. Hagar, an extraordinary prescient novel published in 1913, brings together her fictional flair and her serious committed feminism. An introduction by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler locates the novel in its historical context and enhances its value to the study of women in southern, and American, history and literature.

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Reprint of the novel, previously published by Houghton Mifflin in 1913, with a new (36 p.) introduction and bibliographic notes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mary Johnston's best-known book, To Have and To Hold, was twice made into film. Two of her other more popular novels, The Long Roll and Cease Firing have been compared to Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage. Marjorie Spruill Wheeler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi and author of New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States.