Ida Rae Egli "No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California."
In the wild, isolated Western frontier, where laws, traditions, and living conditions were like nowhere else in America, it was a bold act for a woman to write and to seek publication. Dame Shirley, Ina Coolbrith, and Mary Hallock Foote never achieved the fame and success of Mark Twain or Bret Harte, but they were celebrated writers in their time. They, too, wrote about California during the gold rush, but with a perspective all their own. Their writings, as well as the poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, and diary entries of other women writers of their era.
Ida Rae Egli is a writer, editor, lecturer, and educator whose books, "No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California" and "Gold Rush Women: The New Penelope and Other Stories" focus on women in pioneer California.
Heydey Books; Softcover. Second editon, 1997.
ISBN 1890771015.
New book. Sticker with the name of previous owner on title page. Very light shelf wear.