Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels

Nineteenth-Century American Women''s Serial Novels explores the prolific careers of four exemplary novelists - E. D. E. N. Southworth, Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Laura Jean Libbey. These commercially successful writers helped to shape the popular tradition of serial magazine fiction by drawing on readers'' tastes along with their cultural concerns. Their astonishing productivity led magaz...