Felicia L. Carr - Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (review) - Legacy 22:2 Legacy 22.2 (2005) 199-200 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. 320 pp. $55.00. In Writing for Immortality, Anne E. Boyd focuses on the lives, literary work, and personal and professional struggles of four authors whose careers spanned the postbellum period: Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. The postbellum era was a transitional period for American women writers—a time between the enormous success of the sentimentalists and the solidification of literary writing as the exclusive...