Nonsense as Autobiography: The Children’s Poems and Family Secrets of Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards’s (1850-1943), the first lady of American nonsense poetry, was among the few nineteenth-century professional women writers who composed literary autobiographies, and the only one who wrote two, one for adult readers and one for children. The present essay argues for reading Laura E...
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Main Author: | Etti Gordon Ginzburg |
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Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2024-12-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/23226 |
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