The home plot women, writing & domestic ritual - Romines, Ann (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-314) and index
False starts and false endings : Stowe, Jewett, realism, and housekeeping -- The country of the pointed firs : claiming the Sibyl's text -- Freeman's repetitions : the housekeeper and her plot -- Willa Cather : repudiating home plots -- Willa Cather and women's culture : "Now I know" -- Welty's beginnings : housekeeping and the other way to live -- Welty and the dynamo in the house : "Why keep it up, old woman?"