Marietta Holley

Kate H. Winter is the author of several books, including Woman in the Mountain: Reconstructions of Self and Land by Adirondack Women Writers. She is a lecturer in the English Department at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Backed by Mark Twain's publisher, she drew on the vernacular humor tradition to create a sympathetic comic woman who hid behind the deliberately self-effacing mask of 'Josiah Allen's Wife.' In 21 books between 1873 and 1914, she turned her pragmatic gaze on sex, race, religion, politics, foreign policy, and genteel values; she propagandized for votes, temperance, and feminism." - Library Journal"Excellently researched and well written.... Marietta Holley has at last a chance of regaining her place in a tradition she helped to create."" - Modern Fiction Studies