Women Writers Books


A Room of One's OwnA Room of One's Own
Best Price: $3.40
I found it tedious to read in spite of the high literary reputation and ability of Virginia...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics)
Best Price: $13.59
Butler's gender critique has been a helpful resource for me in my own work. In this book Butler...
A Room of One's Own (Annotated)A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
Best Price: $8.90
I think the title sums it up. I liked the book, but it could have ended sooner. The point was...
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and EncountersTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
Best Price: $5.72
Essays to tease the depths, this collection comprises some pf the best of Dillard's work. Clear...
Perfectly Plum: An Unauthorized Celebration of the Life, Loves and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter (Smart Pop series)Perfectly Plum: An Unauthorized Celebration of the Life, Loves and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter (Smart Pop series)
Best Price: $8.95
THIS BOOK TAKES THE SUBJECT STEPHANIE PLUM AND ANALYZES WHY AND WHO SHE IS AND DOES IT IN A...


Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent MillaySavage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Best Price: $2.95
I was engulfed by the book in a profound sense. I like how Milford allows the reader to see...
The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her WorldThe Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World
Best Price: $6.78
I enjoyed this book immensly, as it was just as I expected. It gives an accurate over-view of...
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a StorytellerIsak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Best Price: $4.99
A very interesting and thoroughly researched book on Isak Dinesen a/k/a Karen Blixen. A must...
The Boys of My YouthThe Boys of My Youth
Best Price: $6.74
I rarely do reviews of books, but Beard's "The Boys of My Youth" has forced me to make...
Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible BlundersJane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders
Best Price: $8.57
As a Jane Austen fan I got a kick out of this book. It can be picked up and read when you have...


Eudora Welty : Stories, Essays & Memoir (Library of America, 102)Eudora Welty : Stories, Essays & Memoir (Library of America, 102)
Best Price: $18.50
Each new volume from The Library of America, the non-profit publisher that has become the de...
SouthlandSouthland
Best Price: $3.62
I agree with a prior reviewer- perhaps this book speaks most poignantly to those Angelinos who...
Confessions of a Failed Southern LadyConfessions of a Failed Southern Lady
Best Price: $4.96
No one on this earth can write a story (or a book review) like Florence King can! The fluidity...
Top Girls: Methuen Student Edition (Open University Set Book)Top Girls: Methuen Student Edition (Open University Set Book)
Best Price: $5.00
So deep and dense with facts, theory and symbolism that I thought she broke my brain! I have...
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the ImaginationThe Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Best Price: $7.98
To quote a particularly apt back-cover blurb, "What a pleasure it is to roam around in...

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the TwentiesBobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Best Price: $2.80
An engaging, entertaining read by a skillful writer. . .but if you want a thorough, complex...
The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative NonfictionThe Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction
Best Price: $5.99
A concise anthology of superb classic and creative nonfiction from the twentieth century. This...
The Lost DaughterThe Lost Daughter
Best Price: $8.47
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones ...
Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront?Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bront?
Best Price: $12.39
Fascinating book especially if you enjoy these authors. Aside from their attachments to their...
Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.78
I bought this book for a class in college and enjoyed all of the readings we did for the class. ...

Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton ReaderFeminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader
Best Price: $22.87
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale HurstonSpeak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Best Price: $1.95
I came across this book at a Pamida drugstore of all places, so thank you Pamida book buyer. As...
The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (Volume II)The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (Volume II)
Best Price: $8.91
Great companion and elucidator to the complex mind of Dorothy Dunnett and House of Niccolo...
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern IranWomen Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
Best Price: $7.25
The significance of this story in regards to the female as the victim is overly drawn out. The...
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex IndustrySex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Best Price: $8.98
Perfectly edited, entertaining, intelligent. In this book, one will find a large variety of...

SilencesSilences
Best Price: $10.13
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful: Why aren't you writing?, September 18,...
The Princessa : Machiavelli for WomenThe Princessa : Machiavelli for Women
Best Price: $4.31
Too many words, not enough examples. As a young female engineer, I was hoping to hear detailed...
Northanger Abbey (Norton Critical Editions)Northanger Abbey (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $6.95
I watched the recent BBC version of the Northanger Abbey story first and loved it. I'm a Jane...
Longman Anthology of Women's LiteratureLongman Anthology of Women's Literature
Best Price: $57.50
Offering readers key women's writings from the eighth century to the present, this global and...
Since You AskSince You Ask
Best Price: $8.72
Loved this book; couldn't put it down!! The writing style absolutely meshed perfectly with the...

Prisons We Choose to Live InsidePrisons We Choose to Live Inside
Best Price: $4.98
So often one comes across a piece of literature that asks for nothing from the reader, this is...
The Writing LifeThe Writing Life
Best Price: $18.71
This book covers so much about writing. Ellen Gilchrist lists many interesting non-fiction and...
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Volume 2, Third EditionThe Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, Volume 2, Third Edition
Best Price: $28.70
I was made to buy this for an English class, but I am sure glad that I did. The overview of...
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Boxed set, Volumes 1 and 2)Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (Boxed set, Volumes 1 and 2)
Best Price: $59.75
This book is great! Too bad I didn't have to take the class after all.
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington DickinsonOpen Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Best Price: $12.21
My only disappointment with this book lies with myself for not having the frame of reference...

Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American CultureLittle House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture
Best Price: $29.00
The author of this book has NO CLUE what she is talking about. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about...
Writing a Woman's Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Writing a Woman's Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Best Price: $0.98
Although Heilburn's slim book is almost two decades old, it is still relevant for women who want...
The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics)The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.35
This book is, in many ways, very close to other written in the Middle Ages: a list of good or...
Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses the novel Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Book Club in a Box)Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses the novel Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Book Club in a Box)
Best Price: $12.67
My book club read this and it proved to be the most stimulating conversation of all the books...
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature)The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Best Price: $5.99
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in...

Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild (Adventura Books)Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild (Adventura Books)
Best Price: $3.42
One of the reasons I go alone into the wilderness is I can't handle all these other women who...
The House by the Sea: A JournalThe House by the Sea: A Journal
Best Price: $4.98
In the first year on the property, 1973, May Sarton lived alone except for her dog, a Shetland...
Betty Smith: Life of the Author of A Tree Grows in BrooklynBetty Smith: Life of the Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Best Price: $21.75
Valerie Yow has done it again. I was absorbed by her biography of North Carolina writer Bernice...
Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (Modern Library Classics)Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (Modern Library Classics)
Best Price: $7.98
This book was published in 1990 and contained 32 pieces by 31 writers, from 13 nations and...
Zadie Smith's White Teeth: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)Zadie Smith's White Teeth: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Best Price: $7.65
Great book. Very vivid descriptions of language, character and the family structure of...

Cries of The SpiritCries of The Spirit
Best Price: $8.95
A truly rich and diverse sourcebook of poetry and prose which defines women through our...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Oxford World's Classics)The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.24
While the definitive overall Brontes biography is Juliet Barker's 'The Brontes', and the various...
Women and Goddesses in Myth and Sacred TextWomen and Goddesses in Myth and Sacred Text
Best Price: $24.99
This cross-cultural primary source reader, provides an opportunity for readers to examine,...
Solitude of SelfSolitude of Self
Best Price: $5.45
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's speech embodies my philosophy, my theology and the definition of my own...
Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series)Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series)
Best Price: $13.90
As a chronicler of the African American experience in fiction and as an incisive cultural...

The Hidden WriterThe Hidden Writer
Best Price: $4.49
This book examines several women writers through recent history, and how their practice of...
When All the World Was Young: A MemoirWhen All the World Was Young: A Memoir
Best Price: $3.76
Nostalgically deep yet painfully honest account of a young girl who never quite fit in set in...
The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia PlathThe Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath
Best Price: $15.49
Anita Helle's The Unraveling Archive: essays on Sylvia Plath is a very welcome and long-awaited...
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on MotherhoodMother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood
Best Price: $12.35
Motherhood can be isolating, joyful, bewildering, boring, confusing, and exhilarating, often in...
A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest WilliamsA Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
Best Price: $12.26
A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams is a selection of...

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)
Best Price: $4.06
These poems might as well have been the dictated sounds of gas bubbles coming up through the...
    
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