About This Site

Welcome to the third volume of “Recovering 19th-Century American Women Writers.” This site represents the work of students in the Senior Seminar in Literary Recovery taught by Dr. Deborah Gussman at Stockton University, Fall 2022. Over the course of the semester, each student has worked on recovering and Continued

What is Literary Recovery?

Literary recovery is the revival of forgotten, lost, and suppressed literary works by authors who have previously gone under-researched, under-recognized, or even completely undiscovered. It is important to recover these works because the literary canon should not only include the voices of the dominant culture. Continued