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Written by Herself: Volume I: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology - Paperback
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by Jill Ker Conway (Author)
The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Author Biography
Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving for ten years as President of Smith College. Since 1985 she has been a visiting scholar and professor in M.I.T.'s Program in Science, Technology and Society, and she now lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
CONTRIBUTORS: Margery PerhamVera Brittain
Angelica Garnett
Isak Dinesen Baroness Blixen
Elspeth Huxley
Mary Benson
Ruth First
Emma Mashinini
Shudha Mazumdar
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Meena Alexander
Vivian Gornick
Gloria Wade-Gayles
Edith Mirante
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