Ann Romines is professor of English and director of the department's graduate studies program at George Washington University.
"A major contribution not merely to feminist studies, nor even to studies in American fiction, but more generally to our understanding of American culture."--Cynthia Griffin Wolff, author of A Feast of Words: The Triumph of Edith Wharton "Romines has achieved an extraordinary tone in this book. On the one hand, it is framed by passages that are unashamedly autobiographical. On the other, it is decidedly a work of contemporary literary scholarship, a reading of an extremely popular set of children's books by an English professor versed in the latest work in her field. . . . I read it with much pleasure and learned a great deal from it."--Susan Strasser, author of Never Done: A Histroy of American Housework "Sets a new standard for studies of Wilder, of children's literature, of nineteenth-century women's popular literature, and of women's roles in the ninettenth century, especially on the American frontier, and affirms Romines's important place as a critic of all these concerns. . . . Readers have been waiting for this work--even if they didn't know Romines was working on it."--Diane Quantic, author of The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction
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