Frances Newman: Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel

This first biographical and literary assessment of Frances Newman highlights one of the most experimental writers of the Southern Renaissance.

Novelist, translator, critic, and acerbic book reviewer Frances Newman (1883-1928) was praised by Virginia novelist James Branch Cabell and critic H. L. Mencken. Her experimental novels The Hard-Boiled Virgin (1926) and Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers (1928), have recently begun to receive serious critical attention, but this is…