Plain and Ugly Janes: the Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction
Women characters in American literature of the nineteenth century form an overwhelmingly lovely group, but a search through some of the overlooked works reveals a thin but discernible thread of plain, even homely, heroines. Most of these fall into the stereotypical "old maid" category, and...
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University of North Texas
1994
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| Online Access: | https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278032/ |