Main Title |
Written by herself : autobiographies of American women : an anthology / |
Other Authors |
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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
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Additional Subjects |
Anthologie ;
Umschulungswerkstätten fèur Siedler und Auswanderer--Bitterfeld
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EHAM WISE |
WISE038 |
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Region 1 Library/Boston,MA |
04/06/2020 |
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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 from Unpublished Memoir / Dorothy Reed Mendenhall (1874-1964).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. |