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Title	Writing women's lives : an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth century American women writers / edited and with an introduction by Susan Cahill
Publish Info	New York, NY : HarperPerennial, c1994
Edition	1st ed

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
HQBROWN Circ Stacks	PS151 .W75 1994	AVAILABLE

	Introduction
	from Twenty Years at Hull House / Jane Addams					1
	from "Life and I" / Edith Wharton					9
	from The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Charlotte Perkins Gilman					19
	from The Woman Within / Ellen Glasgow					31
	from The Promised Land / Mary Antin					37
	from The Measure of My Days / Florida Scott-Maxwell					47
	from Dust Tracks on a Road / Zora Neale Hurston					51
	from Journey Around My Room / Louise Bogan					59
	from The Long Loneliness / Dorothy Day					65
	from An Unfinished Woman / Lillian Hellman					79
	Grandmother's Nervous Stomach from To Begin Again / M. F. K. Fisher					87
	from One Writer's Beginnings / Eudora Welty					95
	from Herself / Hortense Calisher					101
	from How I Grew / Mary McCarthy					113
	from Journal of a Solitude / May Sarton					127
	from Bronx Primitive / Kate Simon					137
	from Silences / Tillie Olsen					147
	from Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage / Madeleine L'Engle					157
	from All the Brave Promises / Mary Lee Settle					167
	from Orphans, Real and Imaginary / Eileen Simpson					177
	Beatrice Levertoff Autobiographical Sketch / Denise Levertov					189
	from Where It All Began: Italy 1954 / Ann Cornelisen					201
	from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings / Maya Angelou					209
	from Facts of Life / Maureen Howard					217
	from Mary / Mary Mebane					225
	from Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South / Shirley Abbott					239
	On the Morning After the Sixties from The White Album / Joan Didion					251
	Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst (1990) from The Astonishing World / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison					255
	from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston					271
	from A Burst of Light / Audre Lorde					283
	from The Loony-Bin Trip / Kate Millett					297
	from Fierce Attachments / Vivian Gornick					305
	from Minor Characters / Joyce Johnson					315
	from Generations / Lucille Clifton					323
	Expectations from The Girl I Left Behind / Jane O'Reilly					329
	from The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston					347
	from Claiming Breath / Diane Glancy					359
	from Sacred Cows . . . and Other Edibles / Nikki Giovanni					365
	from Carnal Acts / Nancy Mairs					375
	from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard					387
	from A Romantic Education / Patricia Hampl					397
	Deciding to Live: Preface to Trash / Dorothy Allison					407
	from A Small Place / Jamaica Kincaid					415
	from Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad / Bebe Moore Campbell					423
	from Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good / Beverly Donofrio					439
	from Talking Back / bell hooks					451
	from Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World / Sandra Cisneros					459
	from Lakota Woman / Mary Crow Dog					469
	from Black Ice / Lorene Cary					481
	from Road Song / Natalie Kusz					491
	Acknowledgments					505
	Works Cited					508

Description	xviii, 509 p. ; 24 cm
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-509)
Contents	Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869-1935) -- Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) -- Mary Antin (1881-1949) -- Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) -- Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) -- M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) -- Eudora Welty (1909- ) -- Hortense Calisher (1911- ) -- Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) -- May Sarton (1912- ) -- Kate Simon (1912-1990) -- Tillie Olsen (1913- ) -- Madeleine L'Engle (1918- ) -- Eileen Simpson (1920- ) -- Denise Levertov (1923- )
	Ann Cornelisen (1926- ) -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Maureen Howard (1930- ) -- Mary Mebane (1933- ) -- Shirley Abbott (1934- ) -- Joan Didion (1934- ) -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934- ) -- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934- ) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Kate Millett (1934- ) -- Vivian Gornick (1935- ) -- Joyce Johnson (1935- ) -- Lucille Clifton (1936- ) -- Jane O'Reilly (1937- ) -- Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) -- Diane Glancy (1941- ) -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) -- Nancy Mairs (1943- ) -- Annie Dillard (1945- ) -- Patricia Hampl (1946- ) -- Dorothy Allison (1949- )
	Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) -- Bebe Moore Campbell (1950- ) -- Beverly Donofrio (1950- ) -- Bell Hooks (1952- ) -- Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) -- Mary Crow Dog (1955- ) -- Lorene Cary (1956- ) -- Natalie Kusz (1962- )
Subjects	Women authors, American -- Biography
	Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
	American prose literature -- Women authors
	American prose literature -- 20th century
	Autobiography -- Women authors
Alt Author	Cahill, Susan Neunzig
LC NO	PS151 .W75 1994
OCLC #	29220359
ISBN	0060969989 (pbk.)
LCCN	93041136