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Petrie illuminates how these autobiographies reflected the tension present in writing a woman writer's life in the early twentieth century through an examination of their memoirs against diaries, interviews, letters, and other published and unpublished materials. Aligning less well-known authors in productive dialogue with more canonical figures, she investigates how these writers responded to gendered expectations. --Lisa Botshon, coeditor of Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s Petrie does a fabulous job laying out the market and literary environments in which these writers wrote and published their autobiographies. She clearly builds on a firm foundation of scholarship on women's life writing, the literary marketplace of the 1930s, and, where possible, existing scholarship on these autobiographies. --Jennifer Haytock, author of The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Women's Novels of the 1930s

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Windy Counsell Petrie is professor and chair of English at Azusa Pacific University.

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