American Realism | Josephine Donovan (essay date 1983)
Josephine Donovan (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Donovan, Josephine. “Toward the Local Colorists: Early American Women's Traditions.” In New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, pp. 25-37. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1983.
[In the following essay, Donovan discusses the origins of women's literary realism in America and the place of the women local colorists within that tradition.]
Three novels which are representative of early and divergent traditions in American women's literature are Susanna Rowson's Charlotte, A Tale of Truth (first published in this country in 1794, and better known as Charlotte Temple); Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism: Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagent Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon (1801); and Catharine Sedgwick's A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners (1822).
Charlotte Temple is an archetypal...
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