Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's WritingUncommon Women discusses provocative, highly readable, nineteenth century American texts that complicate notions of self writing and female agency. This feminist study considers the generic forms, language, and illustrations of a group of complex and often daring texts, including Sarah Kemble Knight's unconventional travel Journal (1825); Fanny Fern's controversial newspaper essays (1851 72); Civil War nurse Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches