Two women regional novelists
Novelists Ellen Glasgow and Willa Cather explored women's lives, placed in brilliantly evoked
regional settings. Neither novelist set out to address
specifically female issues; their early works usually treat male
protagonists, and only as they gained artistic confidence and
maturity did they turn to depictions of women's lives. Glasgow
and Cather can only be regarded as "women writers" in a
descriptive sense, for their works
resist categorization.
