Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860 (Garland Studies in Amrican Popular History and Culture)

About this book

Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women like Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, and Sophie Treadwell-there is evidence that a feminist tradition rooted deep in the nationalistic and democratic impulses of the American nation existed more than a hundred years before these women started writing.