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Main Title Written by herself : autobiographies of American women : an anthology /
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Author Title of a Work
Conway, Jill K.,
Publisher Vintage Books,
Year Published 1992
OCLC Number 36952371
ISBN 0679736336; 9780679736332
Subjects Autobiography--Women authors ; Vrouwen ; Autobiografieèen ; Anthologie ; Frau ; Schriftstellerin ; USA ; Women--United States--Biography ; American prose literature--Women authors ; Autobiographies--Women authors
Additional Subjects Anthologie ; Umschulungswerkstätten fèur Siedler und Auswanderer--Bitterfeld
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EHAM WISE WISE038 Region 1 Library/Boston,MA 04/06/2020
Edition 1st ed.
Collation xiii, 672 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
"A Vintage original"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Notes
Sect. 1. My Story Ends With Freedom. from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897). from Dust Tacks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960). from My Lord, What a Morning / Marian Anderson (1902- ). from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Sect. 2. Research Is a Passion With Me: Women Scientists and Physicians. from A History of Psychology in Autobiography / Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939). from Fighting for Life / S. Josephine Baker (1873-1945). from Unpublished Memoir / Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874-1964). from Research is a Passion with Me / Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974). from Stranger and Friend / Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970). from An Autobiography and Other Recollections / Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979). from Blackberry Winter / Margaret Mead (1901-1978) -- Sect. 3. Arts and Letters. from A New England Girlhood / Lucy Larcom (1824-1893). from On Journey / Vida Dutton Scudder (1861-1954). from Modeling my Life / Janet Scudder (1869-1940). from The Woman Within / Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1873-1945). from Journey Around My Room / Louise Bogan (1897-1970). from Portrait of Myself / Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971). from The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) -- Sect. 4. Pioneers and Reformers. from The Story of a Pioneer / Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919). from Twenty Years at Hull-House / Jane Addams (1860-1935). from My Days of Strength / Anne Walter Fearn (1865-1939). from Margaret Sanger / Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). from I Change Worlds / Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970). from This Life I've Led / Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956). from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions / Gloria Steinem (1934- ). Presents the autobiographies of twenty-five American women authors, from Harriet Jacobs and Jane Addams to Gloria Steinem and Maxine Hong Kingston.