Scribbling Women

Nathaniel Hawthorne is notorious for writing a letter to one of his publishers complaining that a “damned mob of scribbling women” was stealing his audience. It is the work of these American women writers that is showcased on Scribbling Women. The site provides online resources for teaching American women's literature by using highly produced thirty‐minute dramatizations of short stories from the likes of Zora Neale Huston, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others. Scribbling Women was created by the Public Media Foundation with the belief that “the contributions American women writers have made to our literary heritage have been...