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Synopsis
A compelling biography of an important but long-neglected figure in the history of American feminism.
Resources for American Literary Study
"The great strength of the biography is that, within a relatively short compass, Farrell communicates the complexity of the life of a woman who was widely traveled and well connected and who wrote voluminously. . . .The University of Massachusetts Press is to be commended for giving Farrell the latitude to present in its fullest expansion the material of the last two chapters, titled "On Being Lost" and "Literary Detection: A Postscript on Process," as an integral portion of the book. These chapters might well be assigned as required reading for all graduate students working in nineteenth-century sources."