500 Great Books By Women
A wealth of great women writers, from the likes of Charlotte Bronte+a5 to Toni Morrison, is clearly expressed with excerpts from their books to provide readers with a satisfying background on their views of art, growing old, growing up, and power.
A wealth of great women writers, from the likes of Charlotte Bronte+a5 to Toni Morrison, is clearly expressed with excerpts from their books to provide readers with a satisfying background on their views of art, growing old, growing up, and power.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140175905 (0140175903)
ASIN: 140175903
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 425
Edition language: English
A nice little resource. Sadly it was only published once, so it's way out of date and ends with a few books published in 1993. Divided by theme, there are blurbs from a panel of contributors (all female) about 500 books: everything from Autobiography/memoir to oral histories, novels and nonfiction...
Like the title says: 500 books written by women, organized into categories like Art, Mothers and Mothering, Conflicting Cultures, and Work (21 categories in total). The types of books recommended are delightfully varied: novels, short stories, essays, memoir, spanning time and location. An effort is...
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