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Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Presents biographical information about Maya Angelou; discusses her work in the context of the tradition of American and African-American autobiography; and includes analyses of each of the five volumes of her serial autobiography.
Author
Publisher
Prakash Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
“ Lock up your libraries if you like;but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same opportunities to develop her skills?Constructed around Woolf' s idea that to write fiction a woman must have money and a room of her own, this revolutionary work depicts a woman' s predicaments as she struggles deep within for some place of her own...
5) Anne Tyler
Author
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive evaluation introducting readers to Tyler the short story writer and critic as well as novelist.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Collects Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, spanning from 1947 through 1963, in which the literary theorists and political activist discusses her early career, intellectual life in New York City, inspirations, and self-awareness.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Literary Legacy of Rebecca West is the first book to explore the entire corpus of her extraordinary seventy-one year writing career. The general introductory studies of West are outdated and do not take into account her posthumous publications, or her large literary archive of unpublished letters and manuscripts. Previous scholarly books have chopped West up into categories and genres instead of following the evolution of her career.
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia is a landmark anthology that brings together the work of 105 Appalachian women writers, including Dorothy Allison, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Annie Dillard, Nikki Giovanni, Denise Giardina, Barbara Kingsolver, Jayne Anne Phillips, Janice Holt Giles, George Ella Lyon, Sharyn McCrumb, and Lee Smith. Editors Sandra L. Ballard and Patricia L. Hudson offer a diverse sampling of time periods and genres, established...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why--despite all the evidence to the...
20) Jane Austen
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life - enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent dramatisations on screen and stage. This book, which draws on her letters, describes Jane's life in the vicarage at Steventon and later at Bath and Chawton, and her relationships with family and friends - especially her beloved sister, Cassandra,...
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