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The Norton book of women's lives

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  • Author: Rose, Phyllis
    Date:
    Issued
    2011
    Summary:

    Autobiographies, journals, and memoirs of the twentieth-century literature of women's lives, from Virginia Woolf to Maya Angelou, from Anne Frank to Annie Dillard, from Colette and Beryl Markham to Joan Didion and Florida Scott-Maxwell.

    Contents:
    • From I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
    • From The prime of life / Simone de Beauvoir
    • From The italics are mine / Nina Berberova
    • From Testament of youth / Vera Brittain
    • From A Life of her own /Émiie Carles
    • From Life and death in Shanghai / Nien Cheng
    • From My apprenticeships / Colette
    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies, Literary arts
    Subject(s): Dictionaries | Women
    Original Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton
    Language(s): English