Description: An ecofeminist reading of coming of age in Eudora Welty's fiction
Brief description: Sarah Gilbreath Ford is professor of American literature at Baylor University and coeditor of the Eudora Welty Review. She is author of Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic, published by University Press of Mississippi, and Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White. In 2017 she received the Phoenix Award from the Eudora Welty Society, and in 2019 she was named a Baylor Centennial Professor.
Review Quotes: Sarah Gilbreath Ford's Of Women and Water uncovers a central pattern--with stunning precision and persuasion--of Welty rescripting the 'Drowning Maiden' across her career. Ford's insightful slow reading, her gorgeous attention to Welty's equally gorgeous detail, and her elegant reproduction and explication of Welty's exquisite language make this book essential reading.--Harriet Pollack