Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

by CAHILL,S (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780060969981
• ISBN10: 0060969989
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-27
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

A collection of autobiographical narratives by 20th-century women writers, including Jane Addams & Edith Wharton.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
from Twenty Years at Hull House	1	(8)
Jane Addams
from ``Life and I''	9	(10)
Edith Wharton
from The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman	19	(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
from The Woman Within	31	(6)
Ellen Glasgow
from The Promised Land	37	(10)
Mary Antin
from The Measure of My Days	47	(4)
Florida Scott-Maxwell
from Dust Tracks on a Road	51	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
from Journey Around My Room	59	(6)
Louise Bogan
from The Long Loneliness	65	(14)
Dorothy Day
from An Unfinished Woman	79	(8)
Lillian Hellman
Grandmother's Nervous Stomach from To Begin Again	87	(8)
M.F.K. Fisher
from One Writer's Beginnings	95	(6)
Eudora Welty
from Herself	101	(12)
Hortense Calisher
from How I Grew	113	(14)
Mary McCarthy
from Journal of a Solitude	127	(10)
May Sarton
from Bronx Primitive	137	(10)
Kate Simon
from Silences	147	(10)
Tillie Olsen
from Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage	157	(10)
Madeleine L'Engle
from All the Brave Promises	167	(10)
Mary Lee Settle
from Orphans, Real and Imaginary	177	(12)
Eileen Simpson
Autobiographical Sketch	189	(12)
Denise Levertov
Beatrice Levertoff
from Where It All Began: Italy 1954	201	(8)
Ann Cornelisen
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	209	(8)
Maya Angelou
from Facts of Life	217	(8)
Maureen Howard
from Mary	225	(14)
Mary Mebane
from Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South	239	(12)
Shirley Abbott
On the Morning After the Sixties from The White Album	251	(4)
Joan Didion
Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst (1990) from The Astonishing World	255	(16)
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
from Farewell to Manzanar	271	(12)
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
from A Burst of Light	283	(14)
Audre Lorde
from The Loony-Bin Trip	297	(8)
Kate Millett
from Fierce Attachments	305	(10)
Vivian Gornick
from Minor Characters	315	(8)
Joyce Johnson
from Generations	323	(6)
Lucille Clifton
Expectations from The Girl I Left Behind	329	(18)
Jane O'Reilly
from The Woman Warrior	347	(12)
Maxine Hong Kingston
from Claiming Breath	359	(6)
Diane Glancy
from Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles	365	(10)
Nikki Giovanni
from Carnal Acts	375	(12)
Nancy Mairs
from An American Childhood	387	(10)
Annie Dillard
from A Romantic Education	397	(10)
Patricia Hampl
Deciding to Live Preface to Trash	407	(8)
Dorothy Allison
from A Small Place	415	(8)
Jamaica Kincaid
from Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad	423	(16)
Bebe Moore Campbell
from Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good	439	(12)
Beverly Donofrio
from Talking Back	451	(8)
bell hooks
from Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World	459	(10)
Sandra Cisneros
from Lakota Woman	469	(12)
Mary Crow Dog
from Black Ice	481	(10)
Lorene Cary
from Road Song	491	(14)
Natalie Kusz
Acknowledgments	505	(3)
Works Cited	508