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80 LEGACY

LEGACY NOTES AND QUERIES

Correction: In LEGACY 5.2 Fall 1988, p.67 the publication date of E.D.E.N. South worth's The Hidden Hand should be 1859. We regret the error.

Manuscripts Sought

For new book series in Feminist Criticism and Theory, manuscripts are invited con

cerning a "lost" female tradition, and as

pects of form, content, and connections with experience that make a text specifi cally feminine. Send manuscripts or pro posals to: Carola F. Sautter, Editor, SUNY

Press, State U of New York Plaza, Albany 12246-0001.

Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts invites manuscripts for special issue, Fall 1990, on representation of

women in literary texts and production of literature by women in relation to ideolo

gies that have contributed to America's definition of itself. Deadline Sept. 1, 1989. Send to: Emily Budick, Dept. of American

Studies, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, 91905 Israel.

In Our Own Voices: Feminist Forms of Literary Criticism is soliciting manuscripts in nontraditional, feminine, personal forms or "the feminine voice." If you have al

ready written such a piece, send it?

perhaps with a narrative history of what

happened to it in the publishing world. Deadline: Jan. 1, 1990. Send three copies and SASE to: Olivia Frey, Dept. of Eng lish, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057.

Personal accounts of childbirth, written by British and American women since 1880, are solicited for an anthology. Accounts may be one's own or those encountered in

research, e.g., excerpts from diaries,

memoirs, journals, or autobiographies.

Send to: Cynthia Huff, Dept. of English, Georgetown U, Washington, DC 20057 0001.

Journal of Women's History welcomes

manuscripts on new historical research on women. Send inquiries and manuscripts, in triplicate or on disk, to: Journal of

Women's History, Dept. of Afro-American

Studies, Indiana U, Bloomington 47405.

For the second edition of The Ethnic American Woman: Problems, Protests, Lifestyle, seeking letters, autobiographical sketches, short stories, and poems on such

topics as alienation and assimilation; wom an as daughter, wife, mother; what price liberation; or the generation gap. Send

manuscripts to: Edith Blicksilver, English Dept., Georgia Institute of Tech., Atlanta 30332.

Conferences

Sept. 27-29, 1989. Women's Heritage and Strength, annual interdisciplinary con

ference, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Con tact: Program Committee, Women's Stud ies Conference, c/o History Dept., West ern Kentucky U, Bowling Green 42101.

(502) 745-5728.

Oct. 13-15. Women's Voices: Commonal

ities and Differences, cosponsored by Mid Atlantic Region?NWS A and Women's

Consortium, Penn. State System of Higher Educ. Contact: Anne Berkman, Women's

Voices, East Stroudsburg U, East Strouds

burg, PA 18301. (717) 424-3379 or (215) 821-5646.

Aug. 9-12, 1989. Santa Fe Conference on Willa Cather: A Critical Reappraisal. Con tact: Patrick W. Shaw and Lady Falls

Brown, Dept. of English, Texas Tech U, Lubbock 79409.

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Notes and Queries 81

Call for Papers

For Western Literature Association annual

conference, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Oct.

11-14, 1989, papers are invited on west ern American literature. Especially wel come: interdisciplinary studies; gender studies; papers on non-white writers. Send two copies of 20-minute paper and ab stract by July 10 to: Barbara Meldrum,

Dept. of English, U of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843. (208) 885-7743.

Compiled by Lee Ann Huff, Indiana University of Pennsylvania LEGACY invites notices of under 50 words. Submit to: "Notices" LEGACY, Department of English, Bartlett Hall, Uni versity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. LEGACY reserves the right to con dense notices.

"A Secret to Be Burned93 The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888

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