women authors

Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.

An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor.

Comprehensive guide to women's literature with more than 5,000 entries on significant writers, works, and themes in women's writing.

Ivy Seidel's dream of becoming a great American novelist seem to be fading as she runs low on money and takes a job teaching creative writing to prisoners, but she soon finds herself falling for one of the inmates and regaining her creative passion.

Presents a memoir in which the author recalls the history of the women of the Gibson family in South Carolina, and the men in their lives.

Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

Margaret, in her attempts to write what she imagines will be a literary tour-de-force, ruins a lifelong friendship when she decides Letty, a stay-at-home mother of four, will make an interesting topic for her novel.

Contains twenty-six short stories about the special experience of being a woman.