The Norton book of women's lives / edited by Phyllis Rose.

Author/creator Rose, Phyllis, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton, 1993.
Description826 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Women--Biography. --Dictionaries.
Biography--20th century. --Dictionaries.

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 / Émilie Carles -- From Life and death in Shanghai / Nien Cheng -- From Silent dancing / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- From My apprenticeships / Colette -- From The road from Coorain / Jill Ker Conway -- From Notes / Eleanor Coppola -- From The price of my soul / Bernadette Devlin -- From The white album / Joan Didion -- From An American childhood / Annie Dillard -- From Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen -- From The war / Marguerite Duras -- From As they were / M.F.K. Fisher -- From An angel at my table / Janet Frame -- From Diary / Anne Frank -- From Journey into the whirlwind / Eugenia Semyonova Ginzburg -- From Family sayings / Natalia Ginzburg -- From Fierce attachments / Vivian Gornick -- From Times and places / Emily Hahn.
Contents From When heaven and earth came together / Le Ly Hayslip -- From Pentimento / Lillian Hellman -- From Lost in translation / Eva Hoffman -- From Lady sings the blues / Billie Holiday -- From Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston -- From Diary / Carolina Maria de Jesus -- From Minor characters / Joyce Johnson -- From The story of my life / Helen Keller -- From The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From Totto-chan / Tetsuko Kuroyanagi -- From Gift from the sea / Anne Morrow Lindbergh -- From Motherwit / Onnie Lee Logan -- From Zami : a new spelling of my name / Audre Lorde -- From West with the night / Beryl Markham -- From Strikes have followed me all my life / Emma Mashinini -- From Memories of a Catholic girlhood / Mary McCarthy -- From Blackberry winter / Margaret Mead -- From The loony-bin trip / Kate MIllett -- From Daughters and rebels / Jessica Mitford -- From Coming of age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- From Memoir of a modernist's daughter / Eleanor Munro -- From Diary / Anaïs Nin.
Contents From a daughter of Han / Ning Lao T'ai-T'ai -- From Nisa : the life and words of a !Kung woman / Nisa -- From Art and ardor / Cynthia Ozick -- From Diary / Sylvia Plath -- From Gifts of passage / Santha Rama Rau -- From Cross Creek / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- From Confession / V. Sackville-West -- From The measure of my days / Florida Scott-Maxwell -- From Bronx primitive / Kate Simon -- From Landscape for a good woman / Carolyn Kay Steedman -- From The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gertrude Stein -- From Meatless days / Sara Suleri -- From Leftover life to kill / Caitlin Thomas -- From Diary / Sophia Tolstoy -- From Daybook / Anne Truitt -- From Berlin diaries / Marie Vassiltchikov -- From Diary / Virginia Woolf.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 92040015
ISBN0393035328

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks CT3235 .R67 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner General Stacks CT3235 .R67 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold