"This valuable collection... should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." Publishers Weekly

This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices."

"Fetterley's questions are often so crucial, her observationsrepeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in thepast." -- Women's Studies International Quarterly

..".thoughtful, informed, and well written." -- Choice

Sixty-four stories and sketches by fourteen writers are brought together in this groundbreaking anthology to trace a tradition of women's writing in America. Crossing boundaries of region and ethnicity, these works are by writers popular in their time but neglected in the twentieth century. In American Women Regionalists readers will find writing that charts the imagination and talent of some of our most compelling voices. Included in the collection are works by New Englanders Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett, Tennessean Mary Noailles Murfree, New Orleans writers Kate Chopin and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Native American Zitkala-Sa, and Western writers Sui Sin Far and Mary Austin, among others. Together these writers enable readers to reconstruct a women's tradition of sketches and short stories from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Willa Cather. To help contextualize the stories and sketches, Pryse and Fetterley provide a general introduction, biographical/critical headnotes, and bibliographies for further reading.