女作家的创作与出版困境——康斯坦斯·费尼莫尔·伍尔森的《忧伤小姐》

The Dilemmas of Women's Writing and Publication:An Interpretation of Constance Fenimore Woolson's “Miss Grief”

19世纪中末期的美国女性文学发展势头虽猛,但出版业仍完全掌握在男性手中。女性作家常塑造女主人公形象,揭示她们在文学市场上所遭遇的不公正社会现象。康斯坦斯·费尼莫尔·伍尔森就是这样一位作家,她最负盛名的短篇《忧伤小姐》再现了有着作家身份的女主人公试图发表作品的心路历程。

Although American women 's writing thrived in the latter half of the 19 th century,men still controlled the publishing industry. Constance Fenimore Woolson was one of the 19th-century American women writers who revealed in their tales about writers the social bias against female authorship. Her often-anthologized 'Miss Grief ' delineates the checkered journey that the female writer protagonist undertakes in seeking a literary marketplace for her works.