Subject: Women and literature United States History

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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford (1,648 copies)
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (887 copies)
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? by Marion Meade (821 copies)
The Atlas of Pern - A Complete Guide to Anne McCaffrey's… by Karen Wynn Fonstad (548 copies)
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman (497 copies)
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the… by Marion Meade (438 copies)
The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden (376 copies)
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger (351 copies)
Something to Declare: Essays by Julia Alvarez (286 copies)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their… by Kate Bernheimer (283 copies)
The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas (280 copies)
Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin by Noël Riley Fitch (219 copies)
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the… by Christopher Benfey (217 copies)
My Years with Ayn Rand by Nathaniel Branden (183 copies)
The Writer on Her Work, Volume I: Contemporary Women… by Janet Sternburg (173 copies)
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont (168 copies)
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of… by Katherine V. Forrest (164 copies)
A Feminist Ethic of Risk by Sharon D. Welch (145 copies)
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick (135 copies)
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New… by Janet Sternburg (123 copies)
The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman (107 copies)
Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World by Barbara Guest (106 copies)
Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig Seligman (102 copies)
Conversations with Anne Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening… by Michael Riley (100 copies)
Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice by Sharon O'Brien (98 copies)
Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology… by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (96 copies)
A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon (89 copies)
Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman by William Wright (87 copies)
Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community by Katie Geneva Cannon (77 copies)
Katherine Anne Porter: a life by Joan Givner (75 copies)
Happy Endings: Lesbian Writers Talk About Their Lives and… by Kate Brandt (73 copies)
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation by Mari Evans (70 copies)
A feast of words : the triumph of Edith Wharton by Cynthia Griffin Wolff (70 copies)
Sister's Choice: Traditions and Change in American… by Elaine Showalter (67 copies)
A Voice of One's Own: Conversations With America's Writing… by Mickey Pearlman (63 copies)
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson by Wendy Martin (62 copies)
Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher: Spiritual Vision of a… by Carole F. Chase (60 copies)
Willa Cather: A Critical Biography by E. K. Brown (58 copies)
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson (55 copies)
The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan (54 copies)
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the… by Henry Louis Jr Gates (54 copies)
Chapters in a Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Judith Kroll (54 copies)
The Roquelaure Reader: A Companion to Anne Rice's Erotica by Katherine Ramsland (54 copies)
Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women… by Nina Baym (53 copies)
Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in… by Mary Kelley (52 copies)
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and… by John E. Miller (50 copies)
Anne Rice Reader by Katherine Ramsland (49 copies)
Rediscovering Nancy Drew by Carolyn Stewart Dyer (48 copies)
The Unauthorized Anne Rice Companion by George W. Beahm (48 copies)
Listen to Their Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who… by Mickey Pearlman (47 copies)
Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays by Richard Benson Sewall (45 copies)
Edith Wharton; a woman in her time by Louis Auchincloss (45 copies)
Sylvia Plath : Her Life and Work by Eileen Aird (44 copies)
Anzaldua, Gloria E.: Interviews/Entrevistas by Gloria E. Anzaldua (44 copies)
The art of Sylvia Plath by Charles Newman (44 copies)
Conversations with Maya Angelou (Literary Conversations… by Jeffrey M. Elliot (44 copies)
The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the Women Who Write… by Tom Staicar (42 copies)
Color, Sex, and Poetry by Gloria T. Hull (42 copies)
The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker by Leslie Frewin (41 copies)
Emily Dickinson (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (39 copies)
Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Reader's Indispensable… by Jan Grape (38 copies)
Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader (Wisconsin Studies… by Sidonie Smith (37 copies)
The Emily Dickinson Handbook by Gudrun Grabher (36 copies)
Living on Wilderness Time by Melissa Walker (36 copies)
Ursula K. Le Guin by Joseph D. Olander (36 copies)
The Farthest Shores of Ursula K. Le Guin by George Edgar Slusser (34 copies)
Writing Like a Woman (Poets on Poetry) by Alicia Ostriker (34 copies)
Women of Vision : Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction by Denise Du Pont (33 copies)
I Know What The Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision… by Rebecca Carroll (32 copies)
Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents by Sheila L. Skemp (32 copies)
Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction… by Laura Hapke (31 copies)
An American Triptych : Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson,… by Wendy Martin (31 copies)
Sylvia Plath (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (30 copies)
By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry by Molly McQuade (29 copies)
The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford by Ann Hulbert (29 copies)
Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition by Sharon Bryan (29 copies)
Elizabeth Bishop: A Biography of a Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn (28 copies)
Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and… by Sonia Saldívar-Hull (28 copies)
Women of the Harlem Renaissance by Cheryl A. Wall (28 copies)
Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation by Ronna C. Johnson (28 copies)
The Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton by Millicent Bell (28 copies)
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand by Mimi Reisel Gladstein (26 copies)
H.D.: The Career of That Struggle (Key Women Writers) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (25 copies)
Reading Gertrude Stein: Body, Text, Gnosis (Reading Women… by Lisa Cole Ruddick (25 copies)
Pioneers & caretakers: A study of 9 American women… by Louis Auchincloss (25 copies)
Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times by Linda Ben-Zvi (24 copies)
Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present by Henry Louis Jr Gates (23 copies)
Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American… by Diane Price Herndl (23 copies)
Dickinson's Misery by Virginia Jackson (23 copies)
Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (Under Discussion) by Lloyd Schwartz (22 copies)
Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre by Sharon Cameron (22 copies)
Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science Fiction by Lisa Yaszek (22 copies)
Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations (Ontario Review Press… by Ellen Friedman (21 copies)
Silence and Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes by Mary Lynn Broe (21 copies)
Naked and fiery forms: Modern American poetry by women, a… by Suzanne Juhasz (21 copies)
How I Read Gertrude Stein by Lew Welch (21 copies)
Emily Dickinson's poetry; stairway of surprise by Charles Roberts Anderson (21 copies)
Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present by Henry Louis Jr Gates (20 copies)
Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet by Paul A. Bennett (20 copies)
Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery by Bonnie Costello (20 copies)
Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories by Tania Modleski (20 copies)
The Americas of Asian American Literature by Rachel C. Lee (20 copies)
The Changing Same": Black Women's Literature, Criticism,… by Deborah E. McDowell (19 copies)
The First Wave: Women Poets in America, 1915-1945 by William Drake (19 copies)
The Ayn Rand Companion by Mimi Reisel Gladstein (18 copies)
Inter/view : talks with America's writing women by Mickey Pearlman (18 copies)
Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises : 1923-1934 by Ulla E. Dydo (18 copies)
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the… by Carol Thurston (18 copies)
The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 by Emily Stipes Watts (17 copies)
A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson (Historical Guides to… by Vivian R. Pollak (17 copies)
Anais Nin by Bettina L. Knapp (17 copies)
Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women,… by Traise Yamamoto (17 copies)
Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays by Irving Howe (17 copies)
Toni Morrison by Linden Peach (17 copies)
Maya Angelou (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (16 copies)
Grace Paley's Life Stories: A Literary Biography by Judith Arcana (16 copies)
Women Singing in the Snow: A Cultural Analysis of Chicana… by Tey Diana Rebolledo (16 copies)
Dimity Convictions: The American Woman in the Nineteenth… by Barbara Welter (16 copies)
Learning from Experience: Minority Identities,… by Paula M. L. Moya (16 copies)
The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil… by Lyde Cullen Sizer (16 copies)
Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of… by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (16 copies)
American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860 by Nina Baym (16 copies)
Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American… by Mary V. Dearborn (15 copies)
Gertrude Stein in pieces by Richard Bridgman (15 copies)
Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the… by Lisa Botshon (15 copies)
Amy Tan (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (14 copies)
Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language… by Ann. Vickery (14 copies)
Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the 19th… by Susan Coultrap-McQuin (14 copies)
Presenting Madeleine L'Engle by Donald R. Hettinga (14 copies)
Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an… by Marta E. Sanchez (14 copies)
Race Gender & Desire by Elliott Butler-Evans (14 copies)
Ayn Rand: My Fiction-Writing Teacher by Erika Holzer (14 copies)
Willa Cather: Her Life and Art by James Woodress (14 copies)
Marianne Moore by Bernard F. Engel (13 copies)
Anne McCaffrey: A Critical Companion by Robin Roberts (12 copies)
Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement by Grace Schulman (12 copies)
Chicana Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers by Karin Rosa Ikas (12 copies)
Pearl S. Buck by Paula Doyle (12 copies)
A casebook on Anaïs Nin by Robert Zaller (12 copies)
James Tiptree, Jr. by Mark Richard Siegel (12 copies)
Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in… by Elizabeth A. Petrino (12 copies)
Heretics & Hellraisers: Women Contributors to the Masses,… by Margaret C. Jones (12 copies)
Contemporary American Women Writers: Narrative Strategies by Catherine Rainwater (12 copies)
Alice Walker: A Critical Companion by Gerri Bates (11 copies)
Readings on Emily Dickinson by Tamara Johnson (11 copies)
Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath by Linda Wagner-Martin (11 copies)
Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched… by Valerie Lee (11 copies)
The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton by Gloria C. Erlich (11 copies)
Led by Language: The Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe… by Rachel Tzvia Back (11 copies)
May Sarton: Woman and Poet by Constance Hunting (10 copies)
Joyce Carol Oates (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (10 copies)
Shirley Jackson by Lenemaja Friedman (10 copies)
Imaginary Gardens: A Study of Five American Poets by Rosemary Sprague (10 copies)
The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women… by Joyce W. Warren (10 copies)
Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation by Jon Rosenblatt (10 copies)
Elizabeth Bishop (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (10 copies)
Edith Wharton (Modern Literature Monographs) by Richard H. Lawson (10 copies)
Edith Wharton by Margaret B. McDowell (10 copies)
Emily Dickinson by Paul J. Ferlazzo (9 copies)
Diva Julia : the public romance and private agony of Julia… by Valarie H. Ziegler (9 copies)
Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices by Alvina Quintana (9 copies)
The American Narcissus: Individualism and Women in… by Joyce W. Warren (9 copies)
Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves by Peter Erickson (9 copies)
Marianne Moore by George W. Nitchie (9 copies)
Feminism and Its Fictions: The Consciousness-Raising Novel… by Lisa Maria Hogeland (9 copies)
Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American… by Xiomara Santamarina (9 copies)
Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women by Lynn Keller (9 copies)
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African… by Trudier Harris (9 copies)
Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's… by Polly Wynn Allen (8 copies)
Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women's Fiction by Jacqueline De Weever (8 copies)
Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine… by Nicole Tonkovich (8 copies)
Toni Morrison's Fiction: Contemporary Criticism… by David L. Middleton (8 copies)
Emily Dickinson'S Gothic: Goblin With A Gauge by Daneen Wardrop (8 copies)
Rescued Readings: A Reconstruction of Gertrude Stein's… by Elizabeth Fifer (7 copies)
Edna St. Vincent Millay by Norman A. Brittin (7 copies)
H.D. (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (7 copies)
The Seductions of Emily Dickinson by Robert McClure Smith (7 copies)
The Fiction of Ellen Gilchrist: An Appreciation by Brad Hooper (7 copies)
Mark Twain in the Company of Women by Laura E. Skandera-Trombley (7 copies)
Lillian Hellman by Doris V. Falk (7 copies)
Liberating Literature by Maria Lauret (7 copies)
Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society by Barton Levi St. Armand (7 copies)
The Making of a Modernist: Gertrude Stein from Three Lives… by Jayne L. Walker (7 copies)
Authority and female authorship in colonial America by William J. Scheick (6 copies)
The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space… by Suzanne Juhasz (6 copies)
Being a Minor Writer by Gail Gilliland (6 copies)
Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein… by Janice L. Doane (6 copies)
The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H.D., Louise Bogan,… by Elizabeth Dodd (6 copies)
Inflections Of The Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson by Paul Crumbley (6 copies)
A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and… by Suzanne Juhasz (6 copies)
Barbara Kingsolver by Linda Wagner-Martin (6 copies)
Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston by Lynda Marion Hill (6 copies)
Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region… by JerriAnne Boggis (6 copies)
Understanding Joyce Carol Oates by Greg Johnson (6 copies)
Emily Dickinson's poetry by Robert Weisbuch (6 copies)
Ijala: Sonia Sanchez and the African Poetic Tradition by Joyce Ann Joyce (5 copies)
Emily Dickinson's Imagery by Rebecca Patterson (5 copies)
Constance Fenimore Woolson by Rayburn S. Moore (5 copies)
Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation by Jane Donahue Eberwein (5 copies)
Emily Dickinson: an introduction and interpretation by John B. Pickard (5 copies)
Black American Women in Literature: A Bibliography, 1976… by Ronda Glikin (5 copies)
Radical Revisions: Rereading 1930s Culture by Bill V. Mullen (5 copies)
The recognition of Emily Dickinson, selected criticism… by Caesar R. Blake (5 copies)
Understanding Denise Levertov (Understanding Contemporary… by Harry Marten (5 copies)
Art and the Accidental in Anne Tyler (Literary Frontiers… by Joseph C. Voelker (5 copies)
Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Grief of Artistry by Cheryl B. Torsney (5 copies)
Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence: The Woman Writer… by Joanne Dobson (5 copies)
Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown by James McIntosh (5 copies)
The art of Emily Dickinson's early poetry by David T. Porter (4 copies)
Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers (Ad… by Mary Jo Bona (4 copies)
Emily Dickinson and Riddle by Dolores Dyer Lucas (4 copies)
H.D., woman and poet by Michael John King (4 copies)
Joyce Carol Oates (Modern literature monographs) by Ellen G. Friedman (4 copies)
Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in… by Margit Stange (4 copies)
Zelda Fitzgerald and the failure of the American dream for… by Koula Svokos Hartnett (4 copies)
The Art of Willa Cather by Bernice Slote (4 copies)
Margaret Fuller by Arthur W. Brown (4 copies)
Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory by Mary Loeffelholz (3 copies)
Louise Bogan: a woman's words: A lecture delivered at the… by William Jay Smith (3 copies)
Race, Gender, and Class Perspectives in the Works of Maya… by Ekaterini Georgoudaki (3 copies)
Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword by Marion Wynne-Davies (3 copies)
Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence… by Jill Bergman (3 copies)
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Ruth Miller (3 copies)
The wilderness within : American women writers and… by Kristina K. Groover (3 copies)
Joan Bauer (Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult… by Alleen Pace Nilsen (3 copies)
Leane Zugsmith : thunder on the left by Abe C. Ravitz (3 copies)
The Poetry of Marianne Moore: A Study in Voice and Value by Margaret Holley (3 copies)
Critical Essays on Emily Dickinson by Paul J. Ferlazzo (2 copies)
A vice for voices : reading Emily Dickinson's… by Marietta Messmer (2 copies)
Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein by Michael J. Hoffman (2 copies)
Emily Dickinson As Philosopher by Kimpel (2 copies)
Critics on Emily Dickinson by Richard H. Rupp (2 copies)
Woman and Her Family: Indian and Afro-American : A Literary… by Uma Kuppuswami Alladi (2 copies)
Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in… by Zofia Burr (2 copies)
Mary McCarthy by Willene Schaefer Hardy (1 copies)
Emily Dickinson's use of the persona by John Emerson Todd (1 copies)