
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 11, 1992                   TAG: 9203110109
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

PROFESSOR FOUND DATA ON FEMINIST WRITERS

A history professor at Emory & Henry College has helped bring to light a 1920s Southern magazine that boasted early feminist writers and may have contributed to a change in perceptions of the South.

John H. Roper also is editor of a new University of Virginia book series on the South. While working on a book about Southern writer Paul Green, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1927, he came across much source material about a literary magazine called The Reviewer, which started in 1921.

It continued in Richmond and later Chapel Hill, N.C., until 1926.

Elizabeth Scott, an adjunct professor in women's studies at the University of Richmond, also had been researching the magazine writers. She and Roper collaborated on a paper recently presented at the annual Southern Humanities Council meeting.

They found that Emily Clark, daughter of an Episcopalian rector in Richmond, apparently was instrumental in starting the magazine. It published Southern writers with feminist views that some more established journals considered outrageous or in bad taste.

Its writers included Julia Peterkin, Frances Newman and Sarah Haardt. Peterkin later won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

- Southwest bureau

by CNB