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Here is a gold mine of information about women's writing, women's history, and women's concerns - 771 entries, ranging from short biographies to extensive essays. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and highly informative survey of women writers and their work as it also illuminates the issues that fired their imaginations. The volume boasts contributions by many of today's well-known...
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The seventeen women poets and dramatists described are Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Childress, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Lorraine Hansberry, Frances E.W. Harper, Georgia Douglas Johnson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Thylias Moss, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Margaret Walker, and Phillis Wheatley. A biographical summary, critical extracts and a bibliographical listing are provided for each author.
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This work is a history of American women writers from 1650-2000. In this narrative spanning more than 400 years and introducing more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known, the author shows how these writers were connected to one another and to their times. The author believes that it is important to integrate the contributions of women into the American literary heritage, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the...
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This book recovers the names and works of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. It reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves.
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"While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century." "As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth MacKintosh...
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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.
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