women authors

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on fifteen African-American women fiction writers including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.

An anthology of poetry by three hundred women poets. Includes brief biographical sketches, arranged geographically and chronologically.

Contains nineteen short fiction stories by Irish women authors in which they address the themes of love and marriage.

A collection of short stories by American women authors in which strong, powerful women search for love and identity.

Provides a history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000 such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Susan Glaspell, and Catherine Sedgwick. Offering her opinions on each writer, Elaine Showalter integrates the contributions of women into the American literary heritage.

Discusses the nature and significance of authorship and uses interviews and biographical profiles to analyze the contributions of notable women writers.

Presents nearly fifty poems by nineteenth-century British authors--and sisters--Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront?.

A collection of critical essays on eighteen major American women poets. Examines each figure as an individual, strong poet participating in several poetic traditions.

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.