Reviews
"This is a book that will hold any reader. The material is exciting, amazing, lovely, hard, painful, and fascinating."
--Florida Times-Union
"This rich collection offers a divers chorus of voices." "Don't miss British-born actress Fanny Kemble's firsthand observations of plantation life, nor excerpts from Harriet Jacobs slave narrative: "Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block."
--Orlando Sentinel
This anthology is ambitious -- first, in its time-frame and, second, in the inclusion of letters, journals, autobiograpgy, and poetry. ...a scholarly anthology as well as an entertaining one.
--Kliatt
"A fascinating anthology" "these testimonies both enthrall and disturb. Many of the early pieces are so riveting, and their writers so brilliantly detail the peculiarities of their era, that oneis oddly disappointed when, in the last half of the collection, one turns to favorite but familiar fiction writers like Carson McCullers and Zora Neale Hurston."--Virginia Quarterly Review
--Virginia Quarterly Review
"those seeking a short introduction to Southern women writers will find this work a good choice."
--Florida Historical Quarterly
"Southen Women's Writing: Colonial to Contemporary is a remarkable anthology in a feminine literary tradition not satisfactorily explored in previous anthologies of southern literature." ""the first work of solid critical scope that presents an excellent representational selection of writings from both established and once 'lost' writers." "This book not only alters and expands the southern literary canon, it reshapes it, and ,via particular arrangement of analysis and text, makes profound sense of it all. This is a vital collection that will likely prove influential and indispensable, opening new doors for further exploration and important studies."--Southern Quarterly
--Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts of the South