Frontiers, January 1st, 2001
The late-twentieth-century response to writer and artist Mary Hallock Foote has been much preoccupied with two related questions. First, how (or how far) can a privileged female migrant represent the American West to which, as a member of the eastern middle class, she was alien, and from which, as a woman, she was excluded in terms of political and economic activity. Second, what kind of West did this Victorian gentlewoman create? Foote (1847-1938) was born into a Quaker family and brought up in the Upper Hudson Valley. Well educated, she had begun a successful career as an illustrator when he...
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