Written By Herself: Autobiographies Of American Women An Anthology

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.

Contents:

My Story Ends With Freedom. from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
from Dust Tacks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston
from My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Research Is a Passion With Me: Women Scientists and Physicians. from A History of Psychology in Autobiography by Margaret Floy Washburn
from Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker
from Unpublished Memoir by Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
from Research is a Passion with Me by Margaret Morse Nice
from Stranger and Friend by Hortense Powdermaker
from An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin
from Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead
Arts and Letters. from A New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcom
from On Journey by Vida Dutton Scudder
from Modeling my Life by Janet Scudder
from The Woman Within by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
from Journey Around My Room by Louise Bogan
from Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White
from The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Pioneers and Reformers. from The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw
from Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
from My Days of Strength by Anne Walter Fearn
from Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sanger
from I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strong
from This Life I've Led by Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias
from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem