18 books like Writing a woman's life

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Women's Life Writing And Imagined Communities Cynthia Huff · 2004 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Women's life writings provide an incomparable window into the various cultural and historical communities in which we live. This book presents a unique view of this great legacy by critically examining how these writings both reflect and shape our communities. It draws on a wealth of material such as novels, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, religious records and many other sources, from many… Shares Women and literature, Women authors, Women, History and criticism

Mediating Memory

Mediating Memory Bunty Avieson · 2017 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Biography as a literary form, Authorship, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Poetics of Arabic Autobiography Ariel M. Sheetrit · 2020 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Biography as a literary form, Histoire et critique, Authorship, History and criticism with this book.

Aspects de la biographie André Maurois · 1928 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Victorian Diary Anne-Marie Millim · 2013 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Art d'écrire, Histoire et critique, Authorship, History and criticism with this book.

Telling Tales Kylie Cardell · 2015 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Authorship, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Postcolonial theory and autobiography David Huddart · 2007 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Drawing from life Jane Tolmie · 2013 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography as a literary form, Authorship, Literature, Biography & Memoir with this book.

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf · 1929 · ★ 4.2 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the… Shares Femmes, Histoire et critique, Authorship, History and criticism

New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

New perspectives on the European Bildungsroman Giovanna Summerfield · 2010 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Women authors, History and criticism with this book.

Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster · 1985 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Critical interest in women's fiction has grown enormously in recent years, in particular focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinized contemporary assumptions about their own sex. Victorian Women's Fiction: Marriage, Freedom and the Individual develops this area of exploration, showing how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the… Shares Women and literature, Women authors, Histoire et critique, History and criticism

English biography before 1700 Donald A. Stauffer · 1930 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Room of Ones Own Three Guineas Virginia Woolf · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of… Shares Women and literature, Women authors, Women, Literature

Selfless Ego Lucia M. S. Galli · 2021 Shares Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Letters to Alice On First Reading Jane A Fay Weldon · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Weldon uses letters to an imaginary niece, "Alice," to pay tribute to Austen, while exploring the craft of fiction from her own standpoint. Shares Women and literature, Women, History and criticism, Literature

Ladder of Years Anne Tyler · 1993 · ★ 3.7 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who… Shares Femmes, Women authors, Women, Literature

Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts

Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts Gloria Allaire · 2018 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Histoire et critique, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Stone Diaries Carol Shields · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 361p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era. ~from the back cover Shares Femmes, Women authors, Women, Literature

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