Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith Glasgow Welty Hellman Porter and Hurstonby Will BrantleyThis study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith Ellen Glasgow Eudora Welty Lillian Hellman Katherine Anne Porter and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American liberalism.Will Brantley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.