Hawthorne and the "Scribbling Women": publishing The Scarlet Letter in the nineteenth-century United States.
| Publisher | Northeastern University |
| Publication | Studies in American Fiction |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0091-8083 |
| Issues per Year | 2 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2001-03-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Works | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Author | n/a | Michael Winship |
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Besides, America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse?--worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.
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It may well be that no single passage written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is better known than this or, at least over the past few decades, more widely...
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