women poets

Fictionalizes the life of Emily Dickinson, portraying the American poet as a student at Mount Holyoke in 1848, before she succumbed to a reclusive existence at her family's home in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Fictional account of the life of the famous poet, businesswoman, educator, and rebel of ancient Greece.

A series of autobiographical essays that chronicle the public and private life of African-American poet Nikki Giovanni.

Detailed illustrations and verse tell the story of a little girl who loved to read in a time when girls did not go to school, and who went on to become the leading writer and intellectual of her day.

"Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife"--Provided by OCLC.

A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.

Examines the life and character of Anne Bradstreet including discussions on how her poetry reflects her values and personality.