Women of Words

by Teacher, Janet Bukovinsky; Powell, Jenny; Powell, Jenny

• ISBN13: 9780762410781
• ISBN10: 0762410787
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-26
• Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub

Summary

This revised and expanded edition celebrates the classics of literature by women from the last two centuries. Poetic, full-color portraits accompany biographical introductions to each writer, followed by carefully chosen excerpts from each woman's works. New to the pages of this elegant treasury are Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck, contemporary Canadian author Margaret Atwood, Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston, prolific fiction and nonfiction writer Joyce Carol Oates, poet and essayist Adrienne Rich, 19century French writer and social activist Georges Sand, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, Souther writer Carson McCullers, and Charlotte Bronte, author of the beloved classicJane Eyre.

Author Biography

Janet Bukovinsky Teacher is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Food and Wine, and other national publications. She received a National Magazine Award in 1993. At Rutgers University and Sarah Lawrence College, she pursued her interest in Women’s literature and studied creative writing with Adrienne Rich. Jenny Powell, a graduate of Great Britain’s Bournemouth School of Art, had a long and successful career as a fashion artist before turning to portraiture as her métier. Since then, she has executed portraits of numerous distinguished individuals and captains of industry, and has had her work published in Gourmet Magazine and Time. She currently lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(3)
Mary Wollstonecraft	7	(5)
Jane Austen	12	(5)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	17	(4)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	21	(3)
Elizabeth Gaskell	24	(5)
Emily Bronte	29	(6)
George Eliot	35	(4)
Emily Dickinson	39	(4)
Sarah Orne Jewett	43	(5)
Kate Chopin	48	(5)
Edith Wharton	53	(4)
Willa Cather	57	(6)
Colette	63	(6)
Gertrude Stein	69	(4)
Virginia Woolf	73	(6)
Isak Dinesen	79	(4)
Marianne Moore	83	(4)
Edith Sitwell	87	(6)
Katherine Mansfield	93	(4)
Zora Neale Hurston	97	(5)
Jean Rhys	102	(5)
Vita Sackville-West	107	(4)
Edna St. Vincent Millay	111	(4)
Dorothy Parker	115	(5)
Stevie Smith	120	(5)
M.F.K. Fisher	125	(5)
Anais Nin	130	(5)
Simone de Beauvoir	135	(6)
Eudora Welty	141	(4)
Doris Lessing	145	(6)
Nadine Gordimer	151	(4)
Flannery O'Connor	155	(6)
Ursula K. Le Guin	161	(4)
Toni Morrison	165	(5)
Edna O'Brien	170	(5)
George Sand	175	(4)
Charlotte Bronte	179	(5)
Christina Rossetti	184	(4)
Pearl S. Buck	188	(4)
Carson McCullers	192	(4)
Adrienne Rich	196	(5)
Joyce Carol Oates	201	(4)
Margaret Atwood	205	(6)
Acknowledgments	211