In 1893, a literary critic in the "Galveston Daily News" lamented that the many women writers in the state, "women of noble talents," had largely gone unnoticed by the literary industry. Her lament has reverberated throughout the past century, as women's letters in Texas have been further marginalized by the male canonmakers who paid tribute to the Texas Mystique--oil derricks, cowboys, and the Alamo: masculine western icons that shaped a region's literature. "Texas"" Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own" is a sweeping account of a rich yet largely ignored literary history covering...
In 1893, a literary critic in the "Galveston Daily News" lamented that the many women writers in the state, "women of noble talents," had largely gone...
