E.D.E.N. Southworth

The prolific nineteenth-century writer E.D.E.N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day - she published nearly fifty novels during her career - but that very popularity, combined with her gender, led to her almost complete neglect by the critical establishment. This new book - the first since the 1930s devoted entirely to Southworth - shows the depth of her career and reassesses her place in American literature.