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ByNina Baym

Woman's Fiction

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“Outside of a dog a book is man’s best friend. Inside a dog it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx

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This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on works by a dozen especially productive and successful writers.