Mark Twain in the Company of Women [Paperback]

Laura E. Skandera-Trombley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1997

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1995

Editorial Reviews

Review

"[This book] supports a valuable idea, that Samuel Langhorne Clemens's relationships with women and with feminism contributed to his creative life to an unmistakably large extent. . . . Skandera-Trombley unearths a stunning array of material on the intersection of nineteenth-century American feminism and the nineteenth century's most important literary figure."—Nineteenth-Century Literature

"This book is to be applauded for its ambition, for its revisioning of the positive power of the 'company of women' on Clemens's career, and for its careful and revealing historical research."—American Historical Review

About the Author

By Laura E. Skandera-Trombley

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (February 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812216199
• ISBN-13: 978-0812216196
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Twain's Other Woman (Knopf 2010) is Laura Skandera Trombley's fifth book.

Laura is an internationally renowned Mark Twain scholar, authoring several books and dozens of scholarly articles on Twain. She appeared in Ken Burns's Mark Twain documentary and, as a graduate student, discovered the largest known cache of Mark Twain letters.

In addition to Mark Twain's Other Woman, Laura's other works on Twain include Mark Twain in the Company of Women and Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship.

Laura was raised in Southern California, and at age sixteen she attended Pepperdine University, where she earned her BA and MA. She then attended the University of Southern California, where she earned a PhD in English literature. In addition to being an author, Laura is also the president of Pitzer College. Learn more at www.lauratrombley.com or www.pitzer.edu.