Great women writers
Subtitle: the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present
By: Frank N. Magill, editor ; introduction by Rosemary Canfield Reisman.
Contributors: Magill, Frank Northen, 1907-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Henry Holt reference book
Publisher: Holt; Brand: Henry Holt n Co; Henry Holt & Co
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
Subjects: Literature -- Women authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Women authors -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Women and literature -- Dictionaries
Description: From Christine de Pisan's medieval love poetry to Nadine Gordimer's dissection of apartheid, the works of the 135 authors represent the entire spectrum of writing by women from around the world--in poetry, drama, the novel, and short fiction, from antiquity to the end of the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.