Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social HistoryWomen Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the U.S. in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing--including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns,and cookbooks, alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the U.S. and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information on women's studies, literature, and history, Women Writers in the United States will enable readers to locate familiar and unfamiliar women's texts and to place them in the context out which they emerged. |
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Page 442 - Terrell," in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, ed. Darlene Clark Hine (Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1993), 1157-59.
Page xi - Mr- Hopkins, the governor of Hartford upon Connecticut, came to Boston, and brought his wife with him, (a godly young woman, and of special parts,) who was fallen into a sad infirmity, the loss of her understanding and reason, which had been growing upon her divers years, by occasion of her giving herself wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books.
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Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker Nancy Berke No preview available - 2001 |