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Eva Wilder Brodhead
1870–1915
Best known for the novel Diana’s Livery, this American writer explored gender, community, and social ideals in fiction that still feels curious and original. She also contributed to Harper’s Magazine, giving her work a place in the literary culture of the late nineteenth century.
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A Prairie Infanta
by Eva Wilder Brodhead
About the author
Born in 1870, Eva Wilder McGlasson Brodhead was an American novelist and short story writer remembered for thoughtful, idea-driven fiction. Sources consistently identify her as a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, and her life and work place her among the women writers shaping American literary culture at the end of the nineteenth century.
Her best-known book is Diana’s Livery (1891), a novel set in an imagined Shaker community. The book is noted for its interest in utopian thought, gender separation, and women-centered spaces, which helps explain why it still draws attention from modern readers interested in social fiction and forgotten women authors.
Brodhead died in 1915. Although she is not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, her work stands out for its unusual subject matter and for the way it engages big questions about society, belief, and women’s lives.