False starts and false endings : Stowe, Jewett, realism, and housekeeping
The country of the pointed firs : claiming the Sibyl's text
Freeman's repetitions : the housekeeper and her plot
Willa Cather : repudiating home plots
Willa Cather and women's culture : "Now I know"
Welty's beginnings : housekeeping and the other way to live
Welty and the dynamo in the house : "Why keep it up, old woman?".