Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston - Paperbackby Will Brantley (Author) This 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. Front Jacket Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South Author Biography