BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/radiantdaughtersOOshin 4 Radiant Daughters Recent Titles in Contributions in Women’s Studies The World of Women’s Trade Unionism: Comparative Historical Essays Norhert C. Soldon, editor Traditionalism, Nationalism, and Feminism: Women Writers of Quebec Paula Gilbert Lewis, editor Only Mothers Know: Patterns of Infant Feeding Dana Raphael and Flora Davis “Give to the Winds Thy Fears”: The Women’s Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874 Jack S. BlockerJr. Film Feminisms: Theory and Practice Mary C. Gentile At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: Women and German Industrialization, 1871-1914 Barbara Franzoi With Ears Opening Like Morning Glories: Eudora Welty and the Love of Storytelling Carol S. Manning Growing Up Female: Adolescent Girlhood in American Fiction ^ Barbara A. White From Crime to Choice: The Transformation of Abortion in America Nanette Davis J. Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein Janis L. Doane The Great American Housewife: From Helpmate to Wage Earner, 1776- 1986 Annegret S. Ogden The Ottoman Lady: A Social History from 1718 to 1918 Fanny Davis Leading the Way: Amy Morris Homans and The Beginnings of Women Professional Education for Betty Spears The Politics of the Feminist Novel Judi M. Roller Radiant Daughters FICTIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN Thelma Shinn J. CONTRIBUTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES, NUMBER 66 GREENWOOD PRESS NEW YORK WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT LONDON • • Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shinn, rhclinaj., 1942- kadiant Daughters. (Contributions in vvotncn’s studies, ISSN 0147-104X ; no. 66) Bibliography; p. Includes index. — — 1. American fiction 2()th century History and criticism. 2. Women in literature. 3. American — — fiction Women authors History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series. PS374.W6S55 1986 813' .54'09352()42 85-27196 ISBN 0-313-25197-5 (lib. bdg. alk. paper) : Copyright © 1986 by Thelma Shinn J. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-27196 ISBN: 0-313-25197-5 ISSN: 0147-104X First Published in 1986 Greenwood Press, Inc. 88 Post Road West Westport, Connecticut 06881 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984) 987654321 10 Acknowledgments Sections of this book have previously appeared in earlier forms. For permission to reproduce materials, we are indebted to the following sources: “Flannery O’Connor and the Violence of Grace,” Cotitemporary Literature (Winter 1968), 58-73. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. “Women in the Novels ofAnn Petry,” Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 16 (1974), 110-20. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. my This book is dedicated to “glittering sons and radiant daughters”: Ramona, Rebecca, Joe, Jim, and Rachel. **3 i 4