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<p>In 1893, a literary critic in the <i>Galveston Daily News</i> 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.</p> <p><i>Texas</i> <i>Women Writers: A Tradition of Their Own</i> is a sweeping account of a rich yet largely ignored literary history covering over 160 years of women's writing in the Lone Star State. Their writings vary widely in theme, setting, and voice; nevertheless these writers share a distinct tradition that is in part defined by their isolation due to both geography and gender and is wholly different from their male counterparts'.</p> <p>The survey begins with pioneer diarists who chronicled their experiences on the Texas frontier, and it ends with the postmodernists and a glimpse of the new directions in which Texas' women writers are now heading. In between are critical-biographical portraits of the lives an

Author

Sylvia Ann Grider & Lou Halsell Rodenberger

Publisher

College Station: Texas A & M University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780890967652

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24