Eva Wilder Brodhead Explained

Eva Wilder McGlasson Brodhead (1870–1915)^[1] was a nineteenth-century American novelist, author and contributor to Harper's Magazine.^[2] She is best known for her 1891 book Diana's Livery, which is set in a hypothetical Shaker community and discusses themes of utopianism, gender separation and all-woman spheres.^[3]

Bibliography

• Diana's Livery (1891)
• An Earthly Paragon (1892)
• Ministers of Grace (1894)
• One of the Visconti (1896)
• Bound in Shallows (1897)
• A Prairie Infanta (1904)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Carol Farley Kessler. Daring To Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950, Second Edition. 1 October 1995. Syracuse University Press. 978-0-8156-2655-8. 258.
2. https://harpers.org/blog/tag/eva-wilder-mcglasson-mrs-brodhead/ Archived
3. Albinski, Nan Bowman. "Utopia Reconsidered: Women Novelists and Nineteenth-Century Utopian Visions." Signs 13, no. 4 (1988): 831-41.
4. Book: Eva Wilder Brodhead. A Prairie Infanta. November 2009. Dodo Press. 978-1-4099-9467-1.