Written by Herself: Women's memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United States

Author: Jill K. Conway
ISBN: 9780679751090

In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories inWritten By Herself, Vol. IIrepresent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with which they transform life into literature. Here are England's Vera Brittain, commemorating the deaths of the men she loved in the carnage of World War I; Emma Mashinini, who endured imprisonment and torture as a labor organizer in South Africa; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the daughter of Indian aristocracy who became an architect of her country's independence; and Edith Mirante, the wisecracking American whose passion for justice took her to the opium trails of Burma. Collected in this stirring volume, their voices demonstrate the ways in which women strive for power, inclusion, and autonomy-- and never fail to move, in

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publish Date: 1996

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Reference, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Social Science / Women's Studies

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