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Modern American women writers

Title
Modern American women writers / Elaine Showalter, consulting editor, Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors.
Publication
New York : Scribner ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Showalter, Elaine.
  • Baechler, Lea.
  • Litz, A. Walton.
Description
xxii, 583 pages; 29 cm
Summary
An encyclopedia of American women writers, examining the lives and works of forty-one authors including Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Adrienne Rich, and Eudora Welty.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American fiction > Women authors > Dictionaries
  • Women authors, American > Biography > Dictionaries
  • American literature > Women authors > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
  • Women and literature > History > Dictionaries > 20th century > United States
  • American literature > 20th century > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
  • American literature > 20th century > Dictionaries
  • 18.06 Anglo-American literature
  • American fiction > Women authors
  • American literature
  • American literature > Women authors
  • Women authors, American
  • Vrouwelijke auteurs
  • Amerikaans
  • Fictie
  • Femmes écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Biographies > Dictionnaires anglais
  • Littérature américaine > Biobibliographie
  • Écrits de femmes américains > Biobibliographie
  • Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Dictionnaires anglais
  • Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Biobibliographie
  • Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Dictionnaires anglais
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • dictionaries.
  • Biographies.
  • Bio-bibliography.
  • Dictionaries.
  • History.
  • Biographical dictionaries (form)
  • Bibliographies (form)
  • Dictionnaires.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in an electronic version.
Contents
Maya Angelou / Joanne M. Braxton -- Elizabeth Bishop / David Crag Austin -- Louise Bogan / Janet Gray -- Gwendolyn Brooks / Nellie Y. McKay -- Willa Cather / Deborah Carlin -- Kate Chopin / Wai-chee Dimock -- Emily Dickinson / Suzanne Juhasz -- Joan Didion / Joan Zseleczky -- Hilda Doolittle / Adalaide Morris -- Jessie Fauset / Deborah E. McDowll -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman / Marjorie Pryse -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Carol Farley Kessler -- Ellen Glasgow / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Susan Glaspell / Veronica Makowsky -- Elizabeth Hardwick / Angeline Goreau -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Joanne M. Braxton -- Lillian Hellman / Pat A. Skantze -- Zora Neale Hurston / Craig Werner -- Sarah Orne Jewett / Marilee Lindermann -- Maxine Hong Kingston / Jeslyn Medoff -- Amy Lowell / Celeste M. Schenck -- Mary McCarthy / Wendy Martin -- Carson McCullers / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / Debra Fried -- Marianne Moore / Celeste Goodridge -- Toni Morrison / Carolyn C. Denard -- Anaïs Nin / Ellen G. Friedman -- Joyce Carol Oates / Ellen G. Friedman -- Flannery O'Connor / Patricia Yaeger -- Grace Paley / Anne Hiemstra -- Dorothy Parker / Gwen Crane -- Sylvia Plath / David Craig Austin -- Katherine Anne Porter / Wendy Martin -- Adrienne Rich / Harriet Davidson -- Anne Sexton / Suzanne Juhasz -- Susan Sontag / Esther H. Schor -- Gertrude Stein / Harriet Scott Chessman -- Anne Tyler / Gwen Crane -- Alice Walker / Claudia Tate -- Eudora Welty / Candace Waid -- Edith Wharton / John Lowe.
ISBN
  • 0684190575
  • 9780684190570
LCCN
90052917
OCLC
  • ocm22511012
  • 22511012
  • SCSB-1907604
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library