Women of words
Subtitle: a personal introduction to thirty-five important writers
By: edited by Janet Bukovinsky ; portraits by Jenny Powell
Publisher: Courage Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781561387694
Subjects: Literature; Women authors; Biography
Description: Summary: A personal introduction to the fascinating lives and works of some of literature's most important writers. Reveals each as an author and as a woman.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mary Wollstonecraft; title: Jane Austen; title: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; title: Elizabeth Gaskell; title: Emily Bronte; title: George Eliot; title: Emily Dickinson; title: Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Kate Chopin; title: Edith Warton; title: Willa Cather; title: Colette; title: Gertrude Stein; title: Virginia Woolf; title: Isak Dinesen; title: Marianne Moore; title: Edith Sitwell; title: Katherine Mansfield; title: Agatha Christie; title: Jean Rhys; title: Vita Sackville-west; title: Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: Dorothy Parker; title: Stevie Smith; title: M.F.K. Fisher; title: Anais Nin; title: Simone de Beauvoir; title: Eudora Welty; title: Doris Lessing; title: Nadine Gordimer; title: Flannery O'Connor; title: Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Toni Morrison; title: Edna O'Brien.