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"""This magnificent, handsome, handful of an anthology . . .""* includes sixty-one substantial selections from the twentieth-century literature of women's lives: autobiographies, journals, and memoirs. ""As varied in humanity as in geography,""** the women whose life stories are collected here include the famous—Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anne Frank, Virginia Woolf—and the surprising—Emma Mashinini, a black South African labor organizer; Onnie Lee Logan, an Alabama ""granny"" midwife; Sara Suleri, an expatriate in America who reflects hilariously on the language of food in her native Pakistan. ""Destined to become a classic,""‡ this treasury of women's lives, brimming with intelligence, passion, wit, and determination, is a celebration of life itself. *Hungry Mind Review **Washington Post Book World ‡Library Journal"

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Author:   Phyllis Rose
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.900kg
ISBN:  

9780393312904

ISBN 10:   0393312909
Pages:   832
Publication Date:   17 April 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This is a book to be marooned with on a desert island... A nourishing anthology ... that covers an exhilarating range of experience. -- Elle

This is a book to be marooned with on a desert island. . . . A nourishing anthology . . . that covers an exhilarating range of experience.

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Phyllis Rose is the author of Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages and other noted works of biography and criticism. She is professor of English at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.

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