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Modernism and Mildred Walker is the first full-length critical study of the major fictional works of this American author whose life spanned the twentieth century (1905 98) and whose literary production spanned almost three-quarters of a century. A highly regarded chronicler of New England and the American West, she is also appreciated for her portrayal of women characters and the complexity of women s roles. Long beloved by readers of Montana fiction, Mildred Walker s novels have been dismissed by some critics as only of regional interest, and, as Carmen Pearson argues, have not been...

As in Chekhov s play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker s Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives and yet from such a seemingly ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues. Editing Walker s last novel, which the author reworked for nearly two decades, Carmen Pearson has found indications that the Chekhov play had in fact been a template that Walker contemporized in The Orange Tree.

The novel centers on two families living in Boston in the 1970s: an older couple, Tiresa and Paulo Romano, and the...