Windy Counsell Petrie is professor and chair of English at Azusa Pacific University.

Petrie illuminates how these autobiographies reflected the tension present in writing a woman writer’s life in the early twentieth century through an examination of their memoirs against diaries, interviews, letters, and other published and unpublished materials. Aligning less well-known authors in productive dialogue with more canonical figures, she investigates how these writers responded to gendered expectations."—Lisa Botshon, coeditor of Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s"Petrie does a fabulous job laying out the market and literary environments in which these writers wrote and published their autobiographies. She clearly builds on a firm foundation of scholarship on women’s life writing, the literary marketplace of the 1930s, and, where possible, existing scholarship on these autobiographies"—Jennifer Haytock, author of The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s"[A] solid contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century literary history."—ALH Online

Windy Counsell Petrie is professor and chair of English at Azusa Pacific University.

Petrie illuminates how these autobiographies reflected the tension present in writing a woman writer’s life in the early twentieth century through an examination of their memoirs against diaries, interviews, letters, and other published and unpublished materials. Aligning less well-known authors in productive dialogue with more canonical figures, she investigates how these writers responded to gendered expectations."—Lisa Botshon, coeditor of Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s"Petrie does a fabulous job laying out the market and literary environments in which these writers wrote and published their autobiographies. She clearly builds on a firm foundation of scholarship on women’s life writing, the literary marketplace of the 1930s, and, where possible, existing scholarship on these autobiographies"—Jennifer Haytock, author of The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s"[A] solid contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century literary history."—ALH Online

Windy Counsell Petrie is professor and chair of English at Azusa Pacific University.

Petrie illuminates how these autobiographies reflected the tension present in writing a woman writer’s life in the early twentieth century through an examination of their memoirs against diaries, interviews, letters, and other published and unpublished materials. Aligning less well-known authors in productive dialogue with more canonical figures, she investigates how these writers responded to gendered expectations."—Lisa Botshon, coeditor of Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s"Petrie does a fabulous job laying out the market and literary environments in which these writers wrote and published their autobiographies. She clearly builds on a firm foundation of scholarship on women’s life writing, the literary marketplace of the 1930s, and, where possible, existing scholarship on these autobiographies"—Jennifer Haytock, author of The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women’s Novels of the 1930s"[A] solid contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century literary history."—ALH Online