Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology by Vida Dutton Scudder, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Anna Louise Strong, Gloria Steinem, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Floy Washburn, Lucy Larcom, Anna Howard Shaw, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Janet Scudder, Ellen Glasgow, Jane Addams, Margaret Mead, Hortense Powdermaker, Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, Anne Walter Fearn, Maya Angelou, Margaret Morse Nice, Marian Anderson, Margaret Bourke-White, Margaret Sanger, Louise Bogan, Jill Ker Conway, S. Josephine Baker

672 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
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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...

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