Writing women's lives : an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth century American women writers /

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Edition:1st ed.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Cahill, Susan, 1940-
ISBN:0060969989 (pbk.) : $15.00 ($20.00 Can.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-509).
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.