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Panthea Reid

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BIOGRAPHY

Panthea Reid is Professor of English Emerita at LSU. She holds a Ph.D from the University of North Carolina (1971). She received a fellowship in 2000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to edit the letters of Tillie Olsen and to write Olsen’s biography, which she published as Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles.

She is also the author of William Faulkner: The Abstract and the Actual and Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf.

Primary Contributions (2)

Articles

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was an English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory,…

Tillie Olsen

Publications (2)

Tillie Olsen One Woman, Many Riddles (2010)

By Panthea Reid

In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in Faribault, Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on, she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Santa Cruz, and Soquel, California. She was a 1920s "hell-cat"; a 1930s revolutionary;...

Art and Affection A Life of Virginia Woolf (1996)

By Panthea Reid

More than fifty-five years after her death, Virginia Woolf remains a haunting figure, a woman whose life was both brilliantly successful and profoundly tragic. As the author of Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando, and Between the Acts, she helped reinvent the novel for the modernist era. And through A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas, and other writings, she continues to inform feminist thought. Yet this supremely gifted woman of letters endured crippling bouts of depression--the...