San Antonio College Library

"Provides profiles of early American women writers, offers selections from their novels, and gathers selected criticism"

An essay on life during the Victorian era prefaces a collection of writings by leading British authors whose works reflect the values and concerns of the age.

Sylvia Yule marries one of her brother's two best friends, only to discover she has chosen the wrong man.

""Poetry was just a sideline with Melville; it was never important to him," pronounced Alfred Kazin, in a judgment frequently echoed by critics today. In this study, Hershel Parker shows that, on the contrary, Melville was enthralled by poetry for much of his life and wrote almost nothing else for a third of a century." "Parker demonstrates that from childhood Melville was steeped in British poetry from Spenser to Byron, including dozens of poets...

Follows the aristocratic cad Champ Effingham in Virginia before the American Revolution.