Writing women's lives : an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth century American women writers /
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Imprint: | New York, NY : HarperPerennial, c1994. |
Description: | xviii, 509 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1706914 |
Table of Contents:
- from Twenty Years at Hull House / Jane Addams
- from "Life and I" / Edith Wharton
- from The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- from The Woman Within / Ellen Glasgow
- from The Promised Land / Mary Antin
- from The Measure of My Days / Florida Scott-Maxwell
- from Dust Tracks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston
- from Journey Around My Room / Louise Bogan
- from The Long Loneliness / Dorothy Day
- from An Unfinished Woman / Lillian Hellman
- Grandmother's Nervous Stomach from To Begin Again / M. F. K. Fisher
- from One Writer's Beginnings / Eudora Welty
- from Herself / Hortense Calisher
- from How I Grew / Mary McCarthy
- from Journal of a Solitude / May Sarton
- from Bronx Primitive / Kate Simon
- from Silences / Tillie Olsen
- from Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage / Madeleine L'Engle
- from All the Brave Promises / Mary Lee Settle
- from Orphans, Real and Imaginary / Eileen Simpson
- Beatrice Levertoff Autobiographical Sketch / Denise Levertov
- from Where It All Began: Italy 1954 / Ann Cornelisen
- from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou
- from Facts of Life / Maureen Howard
- from Mary / Mary Mebane
- from Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South / Shirley Abbott
- On the Morning After the Sixties from The White Album / Joan Didion
- Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst (1990) from The Astonishing World / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- from A Burst of Light / Audre Lorde
- from The Loony-Bin Trip / Kate Millett
- from Fierce Attachments / Vivian Gornick
- from Minor Characters / Joyce Johnson
- from Generations / Lucille Clifton
- Expectations from The Girl I Left Behind / Jane O'Reilly
- from The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston
- from Claiming Breath / Diane Glancy
- from Sacred Cows . . . and Other Edibles / Nikki Giovanni
- from Carnal Acts / Nancy Mairs
- from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard
- from A Romantic Education / Patricia Hampl
- Deciding to Live: Preface to Trash / Dorothy Allison
- from A Small Place / Jamaica Kincaid
- from Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad / Bebe Moore Campbell
- from Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good / Beverly Donofrio
- from Talking Back / bell hooks
- from Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World / Sandra Cisneros
- from Lakota Woman / Mary Crow Dog
- from Black Ice / Lorene Cary
- from Road Song / Natalie Kusz.