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At the end of my Women’s Writing course this semester, I assigned a novel that I could tell unnerved some of my students. In The Awakening of Miss Prim, a group of women—members of the San Ireneo Feminist League—meet weekly to discuss the concerns of their community. At one such meeting, they consider how best to find a husband for their newest member, Miss Prim.
LuElla D’Amico is an associate professor of English and coordinator of women’s and gender studies at the University of the Incarnate Word. She is the author of Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature and writes widely on faith, girlhood, pop culture, and storytelling.
