SOURCE: "Wit, Sentimentality and the Image of Women in the Nineteenth Century," in American Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall, 1981, pp. 5-22.
In the following essay, Walker posits female humor writing as a challenge to the popular nineteenth-century notion of women as the frail and humorless keepers and producers of the "sentimental."
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