Mary Austin
Mary Austin "This book seamlessly combines biography and criticism. Like other females of her period, she received too little recognition for her original prose style and social critiques. Lanigan]…
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Mary Austin
"This book seamlessly combines biography and criticism. Like other females of her period, she received too little recognition for her original prose style and social critiques. Lanigan] adeptly analyzes Austin's life...and also offers insightful analyses of Austin's writing.
Singley in American Literature " Lanigan] provides illuminating sociological background and lucidly marshals the existing biolgraphical data." --Choice "Mary Hunter Austin was a well-known and respected author and activitst in her lifetime but is little known in ours. Thanks to Song of a Maverick, we hear Mary Austin's voice more clearly and appreciatively." --Carol J. In this excellent biography...
Lanigan] chose to focus on a few central relationships in Austin's life, to explore in some depth a few central texts, and to understand the interior life of her subject. She has done a