Rebecca Onion

Rebecca Onion is a staff writer for Slate.com. She is the author of Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Public Science in the United States.

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

October 21, 2019 By Rebecca Onion

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Rebecca Onion

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

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