The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Authoresses

"Authoresses." New York Saturday Press, December 12, 1865, 282-283.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
literary criticism
Abstract

Insufferably chauvinistic opinion that women should abstain from writing unless truly talented. The author discusses the many complexities of the novel and plot that women are ill-disposed to comprehend.