Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston by Will Brantley 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. Will Brantley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.