SOURCE: “The Riddle of the Sphinx: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Story of Avis,” in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol. 9, No. 1, September 1998, pp. 31-64.
In the following essay, Barker argues that The Story of Avis is Phelps's feminist revision of Nathaniel Hawthorne's representation of the woman artist in his The Marble Faun.
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