Great women writers, the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present, Frank N. Magill, editor ; introduction by Rosemary Canfield Reisman
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Great women writers, the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present, Frank N. Magill, editor ; introduction by Rosemary Canfield Reisman
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
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index present
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non fiction
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Great women writers
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dictionariesbibliography
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29595617
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Frank N. Magill, editor ; introduction by Rosemary Canfield Reisman
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the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present
Table Of Contents
Anna Akhmatova -- Louisa May Alcott -- Isabel Allende -- Maya Angelou -- Margaret Atwood -- Jane Austen -- Ann Beattie -- Elizabeth Bishop --Elizabeth Bowen -- Kay Boyle -- Anne Bradstreet -- Charlotte Bronte -- Emily Bronte -- Anita Brookner -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Pearl S. Buck -- Fanny Burney -- Angela Carter -- Willa Cather -- Kate Chopin -- Agatha Christie -- Christine de Pisan -- Sandra Cisneros -- Colette -- Ivy Compton-Burnett -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Anita Desai -- Emily Dickinson -- Joan Didion -- Isak Dinesen --Rita Dove -- Margaret Drabble -- Marguerite Duras -- Maria Edgeworth -- George Eliot -- Louise Erdrich -- Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell -- Natalia Ginzburg -- Nikki Giovanni -- Ellen Glasgow -- Susan Glaspell -- Gail Godwin -- Nadine Gordimer -- Lorraine Hansberry -- H.D. -- Lillian Hellman -- Beth Henley -- Linda Hogan -- Susan Howe -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Shirley Jackson -- P.D. James -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Elizabeth Jolley -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Maxine Kumin -- Madame de La Fayette -- Selma Lagerlof -- Margaret Laurence -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Doris Lessing -- Denise Levertov -- Clarice Lispector -- Audre Lorde -- Alison Lurie -- Mary McCarthy -- Carson McCullers -- Katherine Mansfield -- Marie de France -- Paule Marshall -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Gabriela Mistral -- Marianne Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Alice Munro -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Iris Murdoch -- Gloria Naylor -- Anais Nin -- Marsha Norman -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Edna O'Brien -- Flannery O'Connor -- Tillie Olsen -- Cynthia Ozick -- Grace Paley -- Dorothy Parker -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Sylvia Plath -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Dawn Powell -- Barbara Pym -- Ann Radcliffe -- Mary Renault -- Jean Rhys -- Adrienne Rich -- Dorothy Richardson -- Christina Rossetti -- Muriel Rukeyser -- Nelly Sachs -- George Sand -- Sappho -- Natalie Sarraute -- May Sarton -- Dorothy L. Sayers -- Anne Sexton -- Ntozake Shange -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Edith Sitwell -- Jane Smiley -- Stevie Smith -- Muriel Spark -- Jean Stafford -- Christina Stead -- Gertrude Stein -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Marina Tsvetayeva -- Anne Tyler -- Sigrid Undset -- Mona Van Duyn -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Eudora Welty -- Edith Wharton -- Phillis Wheatley -- Christa Wolf -- Virginia Woolf -- Marguerite Yourcenar
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