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Written By Herself Volume 2
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Author : Jill Ker Conway
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1996-09-17
Written By Herself Volume 2 written by Jill Ker Conway and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with which they transform life into literature. Here are England's Vera Brittain, commemorating the deaths of the men she loved in the carnage of World War I; Emma Mashinini, who endured imprisonment and torture as a labor organizer in South Africa; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the daughter of Indian aristocracy who became an architect of her country's independence; and Edith Mirante, the wisecracking American whose passion for justice took her to the opium trails of Burma. Collected in this stirring volume, their voices demonstrate the ways in which women strive for power, inclusion, and autonomy-- and never fail to move, inspire, and instruct us. Contributors include: Margery Perham,Isak Dinesen,Shudha Mazumdar,Vivian Gornick, Vera Brittain, Elspeth Huxley, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Angelica Garnett, Emma Mashinini, Meena Alexander, Edith Mirante, Mary Benson, and Ruth First.
Written By Herself
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Author : Frances Smith Foster
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1993
Written By Herself written by Frances Smith Foster and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
"...substantial contribution to African-American Studies and women's studies." --Mississippi Quarterly "A bravura performance by an accomplished scholar... it strikes a perfect balance between insightful literary analysis and historical investigation." --Eighteenth-Century Studies "... an impressive study of a wide range of writers.... Foster's work is both scholarly and accessible. Her prose is economical and direct, making this book enjoyable as well as instructive." --Belles Lettres "... an impressively wide-ranging discussion of texts and contexts... " --Signs "Foster has written a fine book that provides the reader with a context for understanding the importance of the written word for women who chose to 'set the record straight'." --Journal of American History "... fascinating, meticulously researched... Likely to prove seminal in the field... highly recommended... " --Library Journal " Written by Herself comprises a volume of remarkable female characters whose desires for social change often made them catalysts for spiritual awakening in their own times." --MultiCultural Review "... an outstanding piece of scholarship... Foster's book offers deeply intelligent, provocative, totally accessible analysis of a tradition and of writers still not sufficiently read and taught." --American Literature "Well written and thoroughly researched. Highly recommended... " --Choice The first comprehensive cultural history of literature by African American women prior to the 20th century. From the oral histories of Alice, a slave born in 1686, to the literary tradition that included Jarena Lee and Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, this literature was argument, designed to correct or to instruct an audience often ignorant about or even hostile to black women.
Written By Herself
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Author : Jill K. Conway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Written By Herself written by Jill K. Conway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with American prose literature categories.
From Harriet Jacobs and Jane Addams to Gloria Steinem and Maxine Hong Kingston, 25 American women tell the stories of their lives. Jill Ker Conway, author of The Road from Coorain, presents these autobiographical writings by her literary predecessors and contemporaries in a volume that reflects the range of American women's experiences in the last 150 years. Whether the narrator is the fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs or the Southern novelist Ellen Glasgow, the anthropologist Margaret Mead or the feminist reformer Margaret Sanger, the voices are resonant in their passion and unflinching in their quest for self-awareness.
Memoirs Written By Herself
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Author : Fanny Newell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Memoirs Written By Herself written by Fanny Newell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with categories.
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Written By Herself Volume I
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Author : Jill Ker Conway
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-08
Written By Herself Volume I written by Jill Ker Conway and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Writing Herself Into Being
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Author : Patricia Smart
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-11-10
Writing Herself Into Being written by Patricia Smart and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors’ perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women’s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being – the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) – offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.
Written By Herself
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Author : Jill K. Conway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Written By Herself written by Jill K. Conway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Autobiography categories.
Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson Written By Herself Thirty Fifth Edition With A Preface And A Postscript By Thomas Little And An Appendix Containing An Account Of The Action For Libel Brought By Robert Blore Against The Publisher Of The Book
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Author : Harriette Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1825
Memoirs Of Harriette Wilson Written By Herself Thirty Fifth Edition With A Preface And A Postscript By Thomas Little And An Appendix Containing An Account Of The Action For Libel Brought By Robert Blore Against The Publisher Of The Book written by Harriette Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1825 with categories.
The Life Of The Holy Mother S Teresa Written By Herself Together With Her Treatise Of The Manner Of Visiting The Monasteries Of Discalced Nuns 2 Pt In 3
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Author : Teresa (st.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1669
The Life Of The Holy Mother S Teresa Written By Herself Together With Her Treatise Of The Manner Of Visiting The Monasteries Of Discalced Nuns 2 Pt In 3 written by Teresa (st.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1669 with categories.
The Life Of Harriot Stuart Written By Herself
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Author : Charlotte Lennox
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1995
The Life Of Harriot Stuart Written By Herself written by Charlotte Lennox and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
This critical edition of Lennox's novel uses as its copy-text the first, and only known, edition of Harriot Stuart. The notes to the edition try to clarify the text for the modern reader by identifying people, places, and events, and commenting upon the ways in which aspects of the novel reflect or reject mid-eighteenth century social and literary prose.