SOURCE: “Progress and Prescription: Ellen Gilchrist's Southern Belles,” in Southern Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, Spring, 1993, pp. 69-78.
In the following essay, Larue traces the common features of Gilchrist's female protagonists and complains that they take no positive action to better their own lives.
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