women and literature

Includes essays on the following American women authors: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary N. Murfree, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Zora Neale Hurston, Constance Rourke, Pearl Buck, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Margaret Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath.

A comprehensive guide to the works of author Jane Austen, along with a chronology and essays on the religion, politics, and society of her day.

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.

Examines the six autobiographical volumes of Maya Angelou. Although distinct in style and narration, these books are united through a number of repeated themes and through the developing character of the narrator. In scope they stretch over time and place from Arkansas to Africa to California to New York City and from confused child to accomplished adult.

Readers learn about the life and accomplishments of African American author Zora Neale Hurston.

A biography of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.