The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. D. E. N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day she published nearly fifty novels during her career but that very popularity, combined with her gender, led to her almost complete neglect by the critical establishment before the emergence of academic feminism. Even now, most scholarship on Southworth focuses on her most famous novel, The Hidden Hand. However, this new book the first since the 1930s devoted entirely to Southworth shows the depth of her career beyond that publication and reassesses her place in American literature.
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