Beth Sutton Ramspeck

Elaine Showalter brought SG to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book. Since...

MAW 's politics have considerably retarded her recuperation by a rights-and-equality-oriented feminist literary critical movement. As Beth Sutton Ramspeck has astutely observed: In seizing on her gender politics as the fuel with which to destroy...

The story is thus a meditation on the nature of crime and punishment, and the title comes to resonate as it becomes clear not only that Vaughn's would-be murderers will remain unpunished, but more soberingly...