For instance, In North Carolina the number of published women writers in the whole of the 1800's totaled 11, from 1900 to 1929 - 10, from 1930 to 1959 - 47, from 1960 to 1979 - 100 and, from 1980 to 1992 - 114. ... Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge are merely three of many examples of great male writers who began their literary careers with the luxury of guidance and example, an advantage the women writers would seek elsewhere. ... To achieve this goal of freedom and to pursue, develop and nurture her writing skills the women writer would need life experience, which had since been un...

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