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Elaine Showalter talked about her book, The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography, about the life of suffragist and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, whose accomplishments included writing …

Elaine Showalter, professor emerita of English at Princeton University, presents an anthology of American women writers from the 17th century to today. Ms. Showalter explores the obstacles t…

Elaine Showalter talked about her book A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Knopf; February 24, 2009). In her book she presents a history of fema…