women and literature

Discusses some of the women authors whose writings contributed to the conception of the ideas about the Civil War and its aftermath and some lesser known African-American women authors who documented little know aspects of the war.

Chronicles the life of poet Muriel Rukeyser and analyzes her writings.

Presents the life and works of Canadian novelist Mrs. Ethel Wilson. Includes a chronology.

Author's memoir covering her life in India and the United States.

Biography of the nineteenth-century American author whose novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," attacked slavery in the United States.

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.