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Article: Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
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- January 1, 2004
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Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s. Edited by Lisa Botshon and Meredith Goldsmith. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 301 pp. $50.00/$22.50 paper.
Fitzgerald called the "Jazz Age" the "greatest, gaudiest spree in history," and it has long epitomized the hedonism of a youth culture wary of Victorian strictures and morality. Yet for Joan Shelley Rubin, who wrote the foreword to Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s, a woman such as "Anne Elizabeth" represents literary history's forgotten female middlebrow moderns; in 1921 Anne Elizabeth wrote, "Now, why won't you believe that a person can be 20 and live in ...