She was a scholar who asked why so few women were represented in the American literary canon, then spent her career working to correct that imbalance. Professor Baym, who taught English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for more than 40 years, was writing a book about Nathaniel Hawthorne in when she began to wonder why 19th-century American literature was so male-dominated. Hawthorne himself helped pique her curiosity.
She went searching through library bookshelves and 19th-century newspapers and magazines, looking for information about the absent women writers. She found plenty of novels written by women in the s, and though they varied in quality, she concluded that many deserved more than obscurity.
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