Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Great Regulars: One might wonder why such

an accomplished writer and skillful business negotiator who was enormously famous in her own day is no longer recognized. Part of the answer lies in the types of works she published; her moralizing is viewed today as old-fashioned, irrelevant, and in some circles just plain wrong. Her only biographer calls her a "hack writer."

from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Early American Poet Lydia Sigourney

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