Explores the use of voice, form, and setting in the works of twelve women authors who used their writings to construct a testament of their own identity, including Mary McCarthy, Anais Nin, and Virginia Woolf.
Provides brief biographical information on eleven Native American women writers and discusses their work through critical excerpts. Includes a bibliography of works written by each featured author.
Provides brief biographies of fourteen British women authors, each accompanied by a selection of critical extracts about her writings and a bibliography of works produced between 1900 and 1960.
Provides brief biographical information on twelve lesbian and bisexual authors and discusses their work through critical excerpts. Includes a bibliography of works written by each featured author.
Discusses the lives and works of eleven British women fiction writers of the nineteenth century, including Jane Austin, Mary Shelley, and Frances Trollope.
Provides biographical information, a selection of critical essays, and complete bibliographies for twelve women writers of English children's literature, including Louisa May Alcott, Ursula Le Guin, Beatrix Potter, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Provides brief biographical information on twelve Caribbean women writers and discusses their work through critical excerpts. Includes a bibliography of works written by each featured author.
Explores the writings of ten Jewish-American women authors, providing introductory essays, biographical data, critical excerpts, and bibliographies for such writers as Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Gertrude Stein.
Explores the use of voice, form, and setting in the works of twelve women authors who used their writings to construct a testament of their own identity, including Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, and Lillian Hellman.
