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Author: Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780393026016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces and redefines the lives of noted women using a new and distinctly feminine voice and language, thereby giving equal weight to the ambitions and choices of women
Author: Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780704341845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy is it that generations of writers had to describe George Sand as 'a great man'? Why did Dorothy L. Sayers, having created a heroine as independent as herself, then marry off Harriet Vane? And why did Carolyn Heilbrun resort to the pseudonym of Amanda Cross to write her own detective fiction? For Carolyn Heilbrun, May Sarton's "Journal of a Solitude" was a watershed which marked a new way of writing about women's lives. Before then, traditional biography and autobiography assumed that only one narrative was acceptable for women: romantic love leading to conventional marriage. This book uses fascinating insights into the lives of unconventional women such as Virginia Woolf and Colette to show how their stories have been distorted by this assumption.
Author: Susan Neunzig Cahill
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 509
ISBN-13: 9780060969981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGathers selections from the autobiographical writings of modern American women authors
Author: Carolyn G. Helibrun
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 0802082289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeilbrun looks at the biographies and memoirs of women who have altered the face of literature and the world, and reveals the ways in which feminism has changed our perceptions of their lives.
Author: Valérie Baisnée-Keay
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-12
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 3030848752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of images is often strategic. Including a range of different forms of life writing, chapters draw on traditional (auto)biographies, travel narratives, memoirs, diaries, autofiction, cancer narratives, graphic memoirs, artistic installations, quilts and online performances, as life writing moves from page to screen and other media. The book explores a wide range of women who have crossed the boundary between text and image: painters who have become writers, novelists who have become painters, writers who hesitate between images and words, models who seize the camera, and artists who use the frame as a page.
Author: Nava Atlas
Publisher: Sellers Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781416206323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular author Nava Atlas explores the writing life of famous women writers in this beautifully designed and illustrated book. The journals, letters, and diaries of twelve celebrated women writers, including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Madeleine L Engle, Anais Nin, George Sand, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, illuminate the author s creative process. Nava s own insightful commentary provides reassuring tips and advice on such subjects as dealing with rejection, money matters, and balancing family with the solitary writing process that will resonate with women writers in today s world. With 100+ vintage photos, illustrations, and ephemera, this book is a splendid gift book for writers.
Author: Joanna Russ
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1983-09
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780292724457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions
Author: David Plante
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1681371502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Plante's dazzling portraits of three influential women in the literary world, now back in print for the first time in decades. Difficult Women presents portraits of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and, in their own way, difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The book begins with David Plante’s portrait of Jean Rhys in her old age, when the publication of The Wide Sargasso Sea, after years of silence that had made Rhys’s great novels of the 1920s and ’30s as good as unknown, had at last gained genuine recognition for her. Rhys, however, can hardly be said to be enjoying her new fame. A terminal alcoholic, she curses and staggers and rants like King Lear on the heath in the hotel room that she has made her home, while Plante looks impassively on. Sonia Orwell is his second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess, while the unflappable, brilliant, and impossibly opinionated Germaine Greer sails through the final pages, ever ready to set the world, and any erring companion, right.
Author: Nancy Burke
Publisher: Apprentice House
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781627202893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThree women are lost in a single morning, one at a commuter train, one at a school, one while walking her dog in the woods. The police think the women are making some kind of political statement by setting themselves on fire....maybe members of a cult. But Cassandra knows better. You won't rest until Cassandra, a mom and former anthropologist, solves the mystery of these fiery deaths. Part mystery, part science fiction, part a suburban domestic novel, Only the Women are Burning asks important questions about women in contemporary suburban lives.
Author: Cynthia Anne Huff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415372206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecognising the great legacy of women's life writings, this book draws on a wealth of sources to critically examine the impact of these writings on our communities.
