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Memory is not history, Jowan A. Mohammed insists in her Mary Hunter Austin: A Female Writer's Protest Against the First World War in the United States , and Mary Hunter Austin, while a fierce believer in women's independence and civic responsibility, was not a feminist; instead, she was made so by later feminists for whom the construction of a feminist history included space for Austin Hunter's regionalist, naturalist, overtly political writings. Where history had erased her voice, her-story renditions of the 20th century women's suffrage movement brought her - back, they felt - into the story. In this way, Mohammed's book is both an exploration of the legacy of an extraordinary chronicler of life in the early 20th century American West, but also a contribution to the study of collective memory studies, to feminist historiographical studies, and more broadly to history itself. Best known for The Land of Little Rain (1903), Hunter Austin was a novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and eventual memoirist, as well as a climate and anti-war activist who championed the rights of women. Mohammed focuses, here, on Hunter Austin's WWI-era work as well as its contemporaneous reception, in order to understand the ways in which later feminists made use of these works and of Hunter Austin's legacy to create a foundational origin story to which WWI-era suffrage debates were critical. Dr. Rashi Rohatgi Nord universitet, Norway

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Jowan A. Mohammed holds an MA form Nord University, Norway and is currently undertaking doctoral research on New York's radical, female milieu during the First World War. Her main research interests are women's history, gender studies, and world literature. Her interest in Mary Hunter Austin began during a graduate course, in which she became fascinated by the power and endurance that she, and women like her, invested to make the world a better and more equal place.

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