Halverson beautifully balances questions raised across a number of scholarly domains, including periodical studies, studies of letters and letter writing, American literary regionalism, and western American literature. She refuses to settle for easy categorical statements about the complex web of relationships in which the four faraway women's texts were embedded.–Melissa J. Homestead, author of
American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 This book redraws the map of American literary history by focusing on working-class, western women writers. Halverson uncovers the ways her subjects' writing shaped the pages of the
Atlantic and American literary production more generally.–Janet Dean, author of
Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy Using an impressive blend of historical sources, Halverson provides detailed yet readable accounts of how four little-known Western women writers (whom Sedgwick labeled faraway women), along with Gertrude Stein, worked in collaboration with both Sedgwick and the magazine's community of readers to create fascinating, extremely popular texts for serialization in the
Atlantic.–
CHOICE Provides insight into female writers' relationships with editors a century ago . . . making the book of interest to magazine historians, particularly those interested in the
Atlantic, and researchers interested in gender and literature.–
Journalism History Halverson's book,
Faraway Women and the 'Atlantic Monthly, ' offers a vivid overview of the work and adventures of four western women writers, all of whom enjoyed what they saw as the good fortune of publishing their life-writing–developed from correspondence and diaries–in the prestigious
Atlantic Monthly . . . Halverson's study breaks important new ground.–
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
