women authors

After the mysterious death of her author husband, a young woman attempts to continue life in a small college town in upstate New York until her former mentor, a book critic who ruined her husband's career, shows up with his current prot?eg?e.

Presents a biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, focusing on her religious upbringing and the impact it had on her life and writings.

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do. Meditates on the writer-temperament and explores the need for a woman to have a room of her own and five hundred pounds a year being symbols of the power to think for oneself and contemplate.

When author Kendall Aims finds herself with writer's block and facing a deadline, her three friends, who are also authors, rally to help her, using their own lives as material. To their surprise, the book becomes a best seller and the four friends face unexpected scrutiny and scandal and discover how little they really know about each other.

Text and a few photographs examine the many facets of Wharton's life, and her relationships with publishers. Also explores her charitable work during World War I, and the financial distress that contributed to her death.

Relates the author's personal narrative of the time she spent in Ghana with other Black American expatriates.

An autobiography in which author Mary McCarthy recalls her early idyllic childhood, the death of her parents, and the following years with relatives who tried with varying degrees of success to provide Mary with a Catholic upbringing.

Two novels by early twentieth-century author Jean Webster that includes textual and explanatory notes, profile of the author, and suggestions for further reading.

The author recounts her life as a playwright, as the wife of a theater critic, and the mother of four boys.

Contains articles that provide critical analyses of topics and authors representative of feminist literature, from antiquity through the twentieth century, and includes a chronology of key events, suggestions for further reading, and author, title, and subject indexes.