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Diane Ackerman Quotes
Quotes by Diane Ackerman - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Isabel Allende
Biography and list of Net and print resources about and by Isabel Allende, Chile-born writer and educator who has worked and lived in the United States.

Isabel Allende Quotes
Quotes by Isabel Allende - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Maeve Binchy
A profile of Maeve Binchy, Irish writer

Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Quotes by Rita Mae Brown - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Quotes by Pearl S. Buck - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Rachel Carson
Biography and Net resources for the pioneer environmentalist, Rachel Carson, and her books including Silent Spring.

Willa Cather
Novelist of the early 20th century, her novels of the west are still well-read today.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn was a 20th century woman poet from Vermont whose poems often highlighted social injustices.

Colette Quotes
Quotes by Colette - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Alice Dunbar-Nelson Books
Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- who also wrote as Alice Ruth Moore, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, and Alice Dunbar Nelson -- was an African American woman writer at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Her life and writing provide insight into the culture in which she lived. Here are some recommended books by or about Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

Alice Morse Earle
A profile of Alice Morse Earle, whose writings on colonial life and the Puritans focus on domestic life and foreshadow the discipline of women's history.

Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald, author who was married to F. Scott Fitzgerald and whose works were little appreciated until well after her death.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, pioneer in women's history and women's studies, moved in her career from leftist to conservative.

Marilyn French Quotes
Quotes by Marilyn French - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

About Doris Kearns Goodwin
A biography of Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian and biographer.

Edith Hamilton Quotes
Quotes by Edith Hamilton - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Harlem Renaissance Women: Dreaming in Color
From the roots to the blossoming to the neglect to the rediscovery of this important literary movement.

Lillian Hellman
A biography of Lillian Hellman, woman writer and playwright whose plays often included anti-fascist themes.

Lillian Hellman Quotes
Quotes by Lillian Hellman - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Fannie Hurst
A profile of Fannie Hurst, writer, part of a collection of profiles on notable women in history.

Fannie Hurst Quotes
Quotes by Fannie Hurst - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Zora Neale Hurston: Biography and More
Anthropologist and folklorist, this Harlem Renaissance writer died virtually forgotten. Fortunately, Alice Walker has brought her back to public attention.

Molly Ivins Quotes
Quotes by Molly Ivins - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Books by Wendy Kaminer
Wendy Kaminer, a writer and social critic who is also an egalitarian feminist, has written on a wide variety of subjects. Here are some of her more readable books on American culture and politics.

Wendy Kaminer Quotes
Quotes by Wendy Kaminer - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Caroline Kennedy
A biography of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of Jackie and John Kennedy, and herself a writer and lawyer.

Jean Kerr Quotes
Quotes by Jean Kerr - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Muna Lee
A biographical sketch of Muna Lee, author, feminist, and Pan-Americanist.

Ursula LeGuin Quotes
Quotes by Ursula LeGuin - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing profile, with the basics of the life and career of Doris Lessing, British woman writer.

Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes by Doris Lessing - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Denise Levertov Quotes
Quotes by Denise Levertov - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell biography, bibliography, and selected links to more information.

Toni Morrison
Biography of Toni Morrison, Nobel winning writer and explorer of human experience through the experiences of black women.

Sarojini Naidu
About Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and political activist, a key part of Gandhi's independence movement.

Camille Paglia Quotes
Quotes by Camille Paglia - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Dorothy Parker Quotes
Quotes by Dorothy Parker - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Sylvia Plath Quotes
Quotes by Sylvia Plath - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

About Ayn Rand
A biography of Rand, with links to more information on the Net. From Jone Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History.

Ayn Rand Quotes
Quotes by Ayn Rand - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, was a German Jew who took refuge in Sweden in 1940 and wrote of the Holocaust and Jewish experience.

Anita Shreve on Fortune's Rocks
Anita Shreve chat, January 26, 2000, 7 pm EST

Susan Sontag Quotes
Quotes by Susan Sontag - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Dorothy Thompson Quotes
Quotes by Dorothy Thompson - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Alice Walker
Probably best known for her novel The Color Purple, Walker is also an unabashed activist for causes she believes in.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A major poet, but often thought to be a bad one, she catered to popular tastes. One poem, represented here among many others, was a conversation between the old century and the new -- the 19th and the 20th. Another is an answer to a male critic who said "Woman is man's enemy, rival and competitor."

Women's Writing - On the Art of Writing - Suggested Reading List on Women's History
A suggested book list for reading groups on women's history, focused on women writers on the art of writing.

Atwood, Margaret: Blood and Laundry
Atwood's novel, Alias Grace, satirizes Victorian life from a servant's point of view, illustrating the class tensions of that era in a creative form.  This is an interview with the author.

Julia Alvarez
Profile of Julia Alvarez, emigrant from the Dominican Republic, now a writer and poet.

Julia de Burgos
Gale biography of Julia de Burgos, 20th century poet and Puerto Rican nationalist.

Luisa Capetillo
Spanish-language profile of Luisa Capetillo, a 20th century Puerto Rican writer.She may also have been the first woman in Puerto Rico to wear pants in public.

Sandra Cisneros
Gale biography of an American poet and writer. Among her books is The House on Mango Street.

Jayne Cortez: Poet
Basic information on Cortez, a jazz-inspired poet.

Rita Dove: Lady Freedom Among Us
Virginian poet Rita Dove's poem to freedom, with images, mpegs, audio and text.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Etext of the 1920 translation includes color illustrations and Amy Lowell's introduction. An excellent history of women's writing in Japan.

Goblin Market
Poem by Christina Rossetti. An excerpt was used by Willa Cather as a metaphor for women's writing.

Laura Esquival: Love and other illegal acts
The author of Like Water for Chocolate and The Law of Love in a Salon Magazine interview talks of love, tradition, destiny in her writing.

Nadine Gordimer: The Salon Interview
1991 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Gordimer talks of her country's racial history and current racial climate.

Francis Marion
A biography of screenwriter Francis Marion, whose 1926 film version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" surprised the critics, and who went on to contribute to many film classics of the 30s and 40s.

Muckrakers Dug Up Dirt on Big-Business
Christian Science Monitor article on Ida Tarbell and other women journalists who made their careers by exposing corruption. Nellie Bly is mentioned.

'Nancy Brown' Provided a Shoulder
Mrs. J.E. Leslie wrote under the name 'Nancy Brown' wrote The Detroit News Experience Column from 1919 to 1942.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Detailed analysis of the writing career of Mary Robert Rinehart, mostly known for her detective fiction. A list of her works precedes the essay.

South Asia Women Writers
A list of women writers of South Asia, with short biographies and links to bibliography.

Dale Spender
Feminist and author from New Zealand. She's written on women's intellectual history.

Amy Tan: The Salon Interview
The author of three novels (as of 1995) talks of her novels highlighting Chinese and Chinese-American culture, and her status as an Asian-American writer.

Women and Literature: Texas
A history of literature in Texas, highlighting the contributions of women both in culture and as writers.

Virginia Woolf
Articles about Woolf, plus contemporary reviews of her books, from the Archives of the New York Times.

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage In
New York Times profile of Woolf by Claudia Roth Pierpont.

Writing Where the Poles of the Worlds Meet
Article on inventing identities in Virginia Woolf and other women writers, by Zelia Gregoriou.