SOURCE: Schmidt, Peter. “Sibyls in Eudora Welty's Stories.” In Eudora Welty: Eye of the Storyteller, edited by Dawn Trouard, pp. 78–93. Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1989.
In the following essay, Schmidt examines Welty's references to the sibyls of classical mythology—particularly the figure of Medusa—and Welty's place in the canon of women writers who have used sibyls as metaphors for their writing.
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