内战前的美国出现了很多女性作家,她们在市场上的成功是当时的男性作家无法匹敌的。女性作家之所以如此畅销,是和美国当时的社会文化背景分不开的。本文将着眼于美国内战前的文学市场,通过读者大众的形成、出版业的发展、作家职业的兴起和市场的女性化来折射当时美国文化社会的一个侧面。 Many women writers appeared in the United States before the Civil War, and their success in the market was unmatched by male writers at the time. The reason why female writers are so popular is that they are inseparable from the social and cultural background in the United States at that time. This essay will focus on the literary market before the American Civil War and refrains one aspect of the American cultural society through the formation of a popular audience, the development of the publishing industry, the rise of writers’ occupation and the feminization of the market.