Henry James found in the stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson “a remarkable minuteness of observation and tenderness of feeling on the part of one who evidently did not glance and pass, but lingered and analyzed.”
There’s a roll call of rediscovered and canonical women writers at Salon. From Clarice Lispector and Lucia Berlin, to Zora Neale Hurston, Kate Chopin, Rose Terry Cooke, Zitkala-Sa, and more from 1980s-90s feminist academia, it’s a roster to reckon with.