Catharine Savage Brosman, a professor emerita at Tulane University, has published many volumes of French and American literary history and criticism and has written ten collections of poetry and three volumes of essays. She lives in Houston, Texas.

“succeeds in supplementing, enhancing, and completing our understanding of American letters as literature”—Chronicles; “Neglected and overlooked as a California author, Laura Arner deserves a second life. Brosman gives that to her. The Arizona years, in close conjunction with the Navajo, are spellbinding.”—Constance Rowell Mastores, author of A Deep But Dazzling Darkness; “A fresh and finely nuanced interpretation of the response by a group of women writers to the American Southwest. It should be of great interest to anyone concerned with American regional expression.”—Donald Pizer, author of Toward A Modernist Style: John Dos Passos; “Brosman explores deftly and sympathetically the fiction of five women who deal compellingly with universal themes.”—Allen Frederick Stein, author of After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceOne. The American Southwest and Women WritersTwo. Mary AustinThree. Willa CatherFour. Laura Adams ArmerFive. Peggy Pond ChurchSix. Alice MarriottSeven. Lands of EnchantmentChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Catharine Savage Brosman, a professor emerita at Tulane University, has published many volumes of French and American literary history and criticism and has written ten collections of poetry and three volumes of essays. She lives in Houston, Texas.

“succeeds in supplementing, enhancing, and completing our understanding of American letters as literature”—Chronicles; “Neglected and overlooked as a California author, Laura Arner deserves a second life. Brosman gives that to her. The Arizona years, in close conjunction with the Navajo, are spellbinding.”—Constance Rowell Mastores, author of A Deep But Dazzling Darkness; “A fresh and finely nuanced interpretation of the response by a group of women writers to the American Southwest. It should be of great interest to anyone concerned with American regional expression.”—Donald Pizer, author of Toward A Modernist Style: John Dos Passos; “Brosman explores deftly and sympathetically the fiction of five women who deal compellingly with universal themes.”—Allen Frederick Stein, author of After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceOne. The American Southwest and Women WritersTwo. Mary AustinThree. Willa CatherFour. Laura Adams ArmerFive. Peggy Pond ChurchSix. Alice MarriottSeven. Lands of EnchantmentChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Catharine Savage Brosman, a professor emerita at Tulane University, has published many volumes of French and American literary history and criticism and has written ten collections of poetry and three volumes of essays. She lives in Houston, Texas.

“succeeds in supplementing, enhancing, and completing our understanding of American letters as literature”—Chronicles; “Neglected and overlooked as a California author, Laura Arner deserves a second life. Brosman gives that to her. The Arizona years, in close conjunction with the Navajo, are spellbinding.”—Constance Rowell Mastores, author of A Deep But Dazzling Darkness; “A fresh and finely nuanced interpretation of the response by a group of women writers to the American Southwest. It should be of great interest to anyone concerned with American regional expression.”—Donald Pizer, author of Toward A Modernist Style: John Dos Passos; “Brosman explores deftly and sympathetically the fiction of five women who deal compellingly with universal themes.”—Allen Frederick Stein, author of After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceOne. The American Southwest and Women WritersTwo. Mary AustinThree. Willa CatherFour. Laura Adams ArmerFive. Peggy Pond ChurchSix. Alice MarriottSeven. Lands of EnchantmentChapter NotesBibliographyIndex