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(3.44) | None | Writings from Jane Addams, Ellen Glasgow, May Sarton, Joan Didion, Nancy Mairs, Jamaica Kincaid, bell hooks, Natalie Kusz, and many others, reflecting on their lives, their work, their worlds, connectedness, and commitment to community. |
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- Extract from Twenty Years at Hull House / Jane Addams
- Extract from Life and I / Edith Wharton
- Extract from The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Extract from The Woman Within / Ellen Glasgow
- Extract from The Promised Land / Mary Antin
- Extract from The Measure of My Days / Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Extract from Dust Tracks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston
- Extract from Journey Around My Room / Louise Bogan
- Extract from The Long Loneliness / Dorothy Day
- Extract from An Unfinished Woman / Lillian Hellman
- Grandmother's Nervous Stomach, extract from To Begin Again / M.F.K. Fisher
- Extract from One Writer's Beginnings / Eudora Welty
- Extract from Herself / Hortense Calisher
- Extract from How I Grew / Mary McCarthy
- Extract from Journal of a Solitude / May Sarton
- Extract from Bronx Primitive / Kate Simon
- Extract from Silences / Tillie Olsen
- Extract from Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage / Madeleine L'Engle
- Extract from All the Brave Promises / Mary Lee Settle
- Extract from Orphans, Real and Imaginary / Eileen Simpson
- Beatrice Levertoff: Autobiographical Sketch / Denise Levertov
- Extract from Where It All Began: Italy 1954 / Ann Cornelisen
- Extract from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou
- Extract from Facts of Life / Maureen Howard
- Extract from Mary / Mary Mebane
- Extract from Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South / Shirley Abbott
- On the Morning After the Sixties, extract from The White Album / Joan Didion
- Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst, extract from The Astonishing World / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
- Extract from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- Extract from A Burst of Light / Audre Lorde
- Extract from The Loony-Bin Trip / Kate Millett
- Extract from Fierce Attachments / Vivian Gornick
- Extract from Minor Characters / Joyce Johnson
- Extract from Generations / Lucille Clifton
- Expectations, extract from The Girl I Left Behind / Jane O'Reilly
- Extract from The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston
- Extract from Claiming Breath / Diane Glancy
- Extract from Sacred Cows and Other Edibles / Nikki Giovanni
- Extract from Carnal Acts / Nancy Mairs
- Extract from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard
- Extract from A Romantic Education / Patricia Hampl
- Deciding To Live, preface to Trash / Dorothy Allison
- Extract from A Small Place / Jamaica Kincaid
- Extract from Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and without My Dad / Bebe Moore Campbell
- Extract from Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good / Beverly Donofrio
- Extract from Talking Back / bell hooks
- Extract from Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World / Sandra Cisneros
- Extract from Lakota Woman / Mary Crow Dog
- Extract from Black Ice / Lorene Cary
- Extract from Road Song / Natalie Kusz
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I will put this book back on my to read list for when I have more time, because these writers lives deserve closer scrutiny, particularly as an aspiring novelist myself. (