Great women writers : the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present
Title:
Great women writers : the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present
JLCTITLE245:
Frank N. Magill, editor ; introduction by Rosemary Canfield Reisman.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Holt, 1994.
Physical Description:
x, 611 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780805029321
Series:
Abstract:
From Christine de Pisan's medieval love poetry to Nadine Gordimer's dissection of apartheid, the works of the 135 authors represent the entire spectrum of writing by women from around the world--in poetry, drama, the novel, and short fiction, from antiquity to the end of the twentieth century.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:
Anna Akhmatova -- Louisa May Alcott -- Isabel Allende -- Maya Angelou -- Margaret Atwood -- Jane Austen -- Ann Beattie -- Elizabeth Bishop --Elizabeth Bowen -- Kay Boyle -- Anne Bradstreet -- Charlotte Bronte -- Emily Bronte -- Anita Brookner -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Pearl S. Buck -- Fanny Burney -- Angela Carter -- Willa Cather -- Kate Chopin -- Agatha Christie -- Christine de Pisan -- Sandra Cisneros -- Colette -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Anita Desai -- Emily Dickinson -- Joan Didion -- Isak Dinesen --Rita Dove -- Margaret Drabble -- Marguerite Duras -- Maria Edgeworth -- George Eliot -- Louise Erdrich -- Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell -- Natalia Ginzburg -- Nikki Giovanni -- Ellen Glasgow -- Susan Glaspell -- Gail Godwin -- Nadine Gordimer -- Lorraine Hansberry -- H.D. -- Lillian Hellman -- Beth Henley -- Linda Hogan -- Susan Howe -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Jackson -- P.D. James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Elizabeth Jolley -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Maxine Kumin -- Madame de La Fayette -- Selma Lagerlof -- Margaret Laurence -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Doris Lessing -- Denise Levertov -- Clarice Lispector -- Audre Lorde -- Alison Lurie -- Mary McCarthy -- Carson McCullers -- Katherine Mansfield -- Marie de France -- Paule Marshall -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Gabriela Mistral -- Marianne Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Alice Munro -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Iris Murdoch -- Gloria Naylor -- Anais Nin -- Marsha Norman -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Edna O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- Tillie Olsen -- Cynthia Ozick -- Grace Paley -- Dorothy Parker -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Sylvia Plath -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Dawn Powell -- Barbara Pym -- Ann Radcliffe -- Mary Renault -- Jean Rhys -- Adrienne Rich -- Dorothy Richardson -- Christina Rossetti -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Nelly Sachs -- George Sand -- Sappho -- Natalie Sarraute -- May Sarton -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Anne Sexton -- Ntozake Shange -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Edith Sitwell -- Jane Smiley -- Stevie Smith -- Muriel Spark -- Jean Stafford -- Christina Stead -- Gertrude Stein -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Marina Tsvetayeva -- Anne Tyler -- Sigrid Undset -- Mona Van Duyn -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Eudora Welty -- Edith Wharton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Christa Wolf -- Virginia Woolf -- Marguerite Yourcenar.