Women Writers of Children's Literature (Women Writers of English and Their Works)
by Harold Bloom
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Provides biographical information, a selection of critical essays, and complete bibliographies for twelve women writers of English children's literature, including Louisa May Alcott, Ursula Le Guin, Beatrix Potter, and Lucy Maud Montgomery.Tags
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Interesting read; look forward to going back to it again. Each entry includes: brief biography, excerpts from critical essays (beginning with the author's words on her own work), and bibliography. Authors profiled: Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louise Fitzhugh, Kate Greenway, Ursula K. Le Guin, Madeline L'Engle, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edith Nesbit, Katherine Paterson, Beatrix Potter, P. L. Travers and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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Harold Bloom was born on July 11, 1930 in New York City. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell in 1951 and his Doctorate from Yale in 1955. After graduating from Yale, Bloom remained there as a teacher, and was made Sterling Professor of Humanities in 1983. Bloom's theories have changed the way that critics think of literary tradition and show more has also focused his attentions on history and the Bible. He has written over twenty books and edited countless others. He is one of the most famous critics in the world and considered an expert in many fields. In 2010 he became a founding patron of Ralston College, a new institution in Savannah, Georgia, that focuses on primary texts. His works include Fallen Angels, Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems, Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life and The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of The King James Bible. Harold Bloom passed away on October 14, 2019 in New Haven, at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
- LCC
- PS490 .W66 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Juvenile literature (General)
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