valorization of independence, and the more modern new woman became the feminist ideal instead.
References and Suggested Readings
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. “The Slave Mother.” The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 2055-56.
Jacobs, Harriet Ann. “From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. 1839-63.
Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood.” American Quarterly 18 (1966): 151-74.
See also Jacobs, Harriet Ann.
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Publication information:
Book title: Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature.
Contributors: Kathy J. Whitson - Author.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: Westport, CT.
Publication year: 2004.
Page number: 250.
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