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Told in a unique first-person creative nonfiction narrative, "Women Writers of the West profiles five women driven to write and succeed at a time when ambition in women was viewed as a flaw, not an asset. Although most of their writing occurred more than a hundred years ago, many of their works--poems, stories, novels, and essays--have lasted and can still be read and enjoyed today. Helen Hunt Jac... More

Told in a unique first-person creative nonfiction narrative, "Women Writers of the West profiles five women driven to write and succeed at a time when ambition in women was viewed as a flaw, not an asset. Although most of their writing occurred more than a hundred years ago, many of their works--poems, stories, novels, and essays--have lasted and can still be read and enjoyed today. Helen Hunt Jackson wrote-hard-hitting, fact-filled reform literature about the ugliness of America's Indian policy, as well as an unforgettable novel on the subject "Ramona. Thanks to Jessie Benton Fremont's vivid descriptions, we can still follows her husband's famous expeditions across the unexplored frontier West. Louise Clappe's exuberant letters home share the happiness and hardship of life in a remote California mining camp. Accomplished illustrator and writer Mary Hallock Foote helped her audience experience the West through her words and her pictures. Finally, Sioux writer Gertrude Bonnin's autobiographical stories reveal the sweetness of her childhood in South Dakota and the bitterness of leaving that life for a government school in Indiana. "Women Writers of the West provides a deeper understanding of how each writer was shapded in relationship to the time, geography, and culture in which her writing was produced.

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