As women grew as literary writers by reading and responding to their contemporaries, their literary tradition grew with them. ... In addition to the fortitude of women in the eighteen hundreds came the strength of the few established female literary writers who pooled their efforts to form a community and build the women's literary tradition that exists today. ... Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

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