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The Women Who Make Our Novels

The Women Who Make Our Novels

by Grant M. OVERTON (1887 - 1930)

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918. (Summary taken from the Introduction by MaryAnn)


00 - Introduction

01 - Edith Wharton

02 - Alice Brown

03 - Ellen Glasgow

04 - Gertrude Atherton

05 - Mary Roberts Rinehart

06 - Kathleen Norris

07 - Margaret Deland

08 - Gene Stratton-Porter

09 - Eleanor H. Porter

10 - Kate Douglas Wiggin

11 - Mary Johnston

12 - Corra Harris

13 - Mary Austin

14 - Mary S. Watts

15 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

16 - Anna Katharine Green

17 - Helen R. Martin

18 - Sophie Kerr

19 - Marjorie Benton Cooke

20 - Grace S. Richmond

21 - Willa Sibert Cather

22 - Clara Louise Burnham

23 - Demetra Vaka

24 - Edna Ferber

25 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

26 - Amelia E. Barr

27 - Alice Hegan Rice

28 - Alice Duer Miller

29 - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

30 - Harriet T. Comstock

31 - Honore Willsie

32 - Frances Hodgson Burnett