The Women Who Make Our Novels

Grant M. Overton (1887 - 1930)

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918. (Summary taken from the Introduction by MaryAnn)

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 00 - Introduction MaryAnn
00:04:45
Play 01 01 - Edith Wharton Amanda Friday
00:14:48
Play 02 02 - Alice Brown Amanda Friday
00:12:46
Play 03 03 - Ellen Glasgow Michele Eaton
00:33:11
Play 04 04 - Gertrude Atherton Lynne T
00:22:58
Play 05 05 - Mary Roberts Rinehart MaryAnn
00:23:53
Play 06 06 - Kathleen Norris Vanessa Garcia
00:18:43
Play 07 07 - Margaret Deland Mike Pelton
00:17:46
Play 08 08 - Gene Stratton-Porter Daryl Wor
00:30:34
Play 09 09 - Eleanor H. Porter Lynne T
00:21:41
Play 10 10 - Kate Douglas Wiggin TriciaG
00:18:23
Play 11 11 - Mary Johnston Mike Pelton
00:39:14
Play 12 12 - Corra Harris Mike Pelton
00:20:13
Play 13 13 - Mary Austin Lynne Carroll
00:25:33
Play 14 14 - Mary S. Watts Lynne Carroll
00:44:13
Play 15 15 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Vanessa Garcia
00:10:26
Play 16 16 - Anna Katharine Green Michele Eaton
00:17:28
Play 17 17 - Helen R. Martin MaryAnn
00:17:53
Play 18 18 - Sophie Kerr Emily Maynard
00:18:29
Play 19 19 - Marjorie Benton Cooke Daryl Wor
00:12:03
Play 20 20 - Grace S. Richmond Emily Maynard
00:12:58
Play 21 21 - Willa Sibert Cather TriciaG
00:23:01
Play 22 22 - Clara Louise Burnham Jennifer Dorr
00:24:30
Play 23 23 - Demetra Vaka MaryAnn
00:12:43
Play 24 24 - Edna Ferber TriciaG
00:09:06
Play 25 25 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher Bellona Times
00:11:57
Play 26 26 - Amelia E. Barr Michele Eaton
00:12:50
Play 27 27 - Alice Hegan Rice doonaboon
00:11:42
Play 28 28 - Alice Duer Miller mishsmith
00:10:44
Play 29 29 - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott MaryAnn
00:12:59
Play 30 30 - Harriet T. Comstock Jennifer Dorr
00:11:42
Play 31 31 - Honore Willsie MaryAnn
00:23:40
Play 32 32 - Frances Hodgson Burnett Amanda Friday
00:17:56