San Antonio College Library

This story collection includes: Hospital Sketches, Up the Rhine, Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Recollections of My Childhood and many more.

Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894), who contributed to Henry James's conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, was one of the most accomplished American writers of the nineteenth century. Yet today the best-known facts of her life are her relationship with James and her probable suicide in Venice. Anne Boyd Rioux uncovered new sources in writing this biography that evokes Woolson's dramatic life and reaffirms her literary...

"Provides original analyses of eight of [Glasgow's] early novels, placing them in the cultural context of the turn of the century. Miss Glasgow's use of Darwinism to expose the southern ideology is one of the primary concerns of the author... Without shelter recreates a fascinating and rebellious personality and provides a fresh look at a hazy period in the cultural history of the South"--from jacket flaps.

An intimate memoir of Anne Rice's Catholic girlhood, her unmaking as a devout believer, and her return to the Church--what she calls a decision of the heart. Moving from her New Orleans childhood in the 1940s and '50s, with all its religious devotions, through how she slowly lost her belief in God, the book recounts Anne's years in radical Berkeley, where she wrote Interview with the Vampire (a lament for her lost faith) and where she came to admire...

Presents alphabetized profiles of more than sixty twentieth- and twenty-first-century American women fiction writers, such as Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and Joyce Carol Oates, describing their lives, major works and themes, and critical receptions and providing primary and secondary.

A dictionary of over 117 women mystery authors giving details on their lives and their writing habits.