The Norton book of women's lives / edited by Phyllis Rose.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rose, Phyllis, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • From I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
  • From The prime of life / Simone de Beauvoir
  • From The italics are mine / Nina Berberova
  • From Testament of youth / Vera Brittain
  • From A life of her own / Émilie Carles
  • From Life and death in Shanghai / Nien Cheng
  • From Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • From My apprenticeships / Colette
  • From The road from Coorain / Jill Ker Conway
  • From Notes / Eleanor Coppola
  • From The price of my soul / Bernadette Devlin
  • From The white album / Joan Didion
  • From An American childhood / Annie Dillard
  • From Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen
  • From The war / Marguerite Duras
  • From As they were / M.F.K. Fisher
  • From An angel at my table / Janet Frame
  • From Diary / Anne Frank
  • From Journey into the whirlwind / Eugenia Semyonova Ginzburg
  • From Family sayings / Natalia Ginzburg
  • From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick
  • From Times and places / Emily Hahn.
  • From When heaven and earth came together / Le Ly Hayslip
  • From Pentimento / Lillian Hellman
  • From Lost in translation / Eva Hoffman
  • From Lady sings the blues / Billie Holiday
  • From Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston
  • From Diary / Carolina Maria de Jesus
  • From Minor characters / Joyce Johnson
  • From The story of my life / Helen Keller
  • From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston
  • From Totto-chan / Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
  • From Gift from the sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • From Motherwit / Onnie Lee Logan
  • From Zami : a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde
  • From West with the night / Beryl Markham
  • From Strikes have followed me all my life / Emma Mashinini
  • From Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy
  • From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead
  • From The loony-bin trip / Kate MIllett
  • From Daughters and rebels / Jessica Mitford.
  • From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody
  • From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro
  • From Diary / Anaïs Nin.
  • From a daughter of Han / Ning Lao T'ai-T'ai
  • From Nisa : the life and words of a !Kung woman / Nisa
  • From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick
  • From Diary / Sylvia Plath
  • From Gifts of passage / Santha Rama Rau
  • From Cross Creek / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • From Confession / V. Sackville-West
  • From The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon
  • From Landscape for a good woman / Carolyn Kay Steedman
  • From The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein
  • From Meatless days / Sara Suleri
  • From Leftover life to kill / Caitlin Thomas
  • From Diary / Sophia Tolstoy
  • From Daybook / Anne Truitt
  • From Berlin diaries / Marie Vassiltchikov
  • From Diary / Virginia Woolf.