You’ll find these thoughtful and provocative pieces here on the Legacy website. Given the success of the forum, we asked each of the panelists to write up their comments for this more public venue. Jennifer Putzi (William & Mary), co-editor of Legacy, moderated.
Panelists included Lois Brown (Arizona State University) Mary Chapman (University of British Columbia) Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin) Grace Lavery (University of California Berkeley) Christine “Xine” Yao (University College London) and Sandra Zagarell (Oberlin College). On Friday, August 28th, Legacy, along with the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) sponsored a panel of scholars to talk abou the series and the politics of recovery. As Lois Brown puts it, “What does it mean to think about reclaiming? Who is reclaiming, what is being reclaimed exactly, and for whom is this reclaiming being done?” We agreed that a more public discussion was in order. The works of a number of writers of color, including Ann Petry, Edith Maude Eaton, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, were also highlighted.ĭespite its rhetoric of finality, however, the Reclaim Her Name project has resulted in far more questions than answers for those of us at Legacy. The series featured George Eliot’s Middlemarch (now identified as the work of Mary Ann Evans), Vernon Lee’s A Phantom Lover (with the name of Violet Paget on the cover), and Michael Field’s Attila, my Attila! (Edith Cooper and Katherine Bradley). More than 3,000 writers were considered for inclusion.
In early August, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and their corporate sponsor Baileys (yes, Baileys of Irish cream liqueur fame) launched the Reclaim Her Name project, “25 books previously published under male pen names, with the real female authors’ names finally printed on the covers, to honour their achievements and give them the credit they deserve.” These books were made available for free download, with the organizers announcing plans to donate complete print sets of the books to libraries.
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