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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index
Introduction : women writers, personal politics, and literary professionalism -- "What the day's work means to me": Zona Gale's municipal housekeepers and the revolt from Friendship Village -- Tourists accommodated, with reservations : Vermont tourism, eugenics, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher's no-vacancy signs -- "Stand entirely on my own feet" : Rose Wilder Lane's literary declarations of independence -- Sisterhood is powerful : the unhappy marriage of women's writing and women's sexuality in Josephine Herbst's fiction -- Personal politics, still small voices, and literary criticism