Introduction: Popular women's literature, class, and the Great Depression -- History, normalcy, and daily life / Margaret Ayer Barnes and Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Women exploring class / Fannie Hurst, Edna Ferber, and Katharine Brush -- Family life in depressed America / Josephine Johnson and Josephine Lawrence -- Single women, violence, and class / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Professional women, work, and romance / Gale Wilhelm, Fannie Cook, and Dawn Powell

1. American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
2. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
3. Middle class in literature
4. Depressions in literature
5. Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century