Betty Jean Steinshouer
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Betty Jean Steinshouer

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Betty Jean Steinshouer was born in the Missouri Ozarks, tenth of eleven. First in her family to graduate from college, she worked her way through undergraduate school on a speech and debate scholarship. After doing her graduate thesis on Virginia Woolf and working as a speech-writer in Washington, D.C., she became a literary historian and Chautauqua speaker, touring 43 states and Canada with her one-woman shows of famous authors. "Willa Cather Speaks" became the most popular, called "tour-de-force theatre" and "life-changing." Named a Fellow in Florida Studies at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in 2004, she has been working for over 20 years on a book about women authors in Florida, originally requested by the editors of the History and Culture series published by University Press of Florida. Its working title is SCRIBBLING WOMEN IN FLORIDA. In her years on the Chautauqua circuit, she also portrayed Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gertrude Stein, Flannery O'Connor, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas, doing years of primary research from each author's correspondence, personal history, writings, and travel, to bring each fully to life.
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