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Tea-bag Tea-bag Ebba Segerberg,Henning Mankell La vida del célebre poeta sueco Jesper Humlin puede ser tan regalada como vacua, tocada por el desasosiego de la sociedad de la abundancia, sumida en una inanidad apenas salpimentada por las trifulca… OL158652W
American women writers to 1800 American women writers to 1800 Sharon M. Harris American Women Writers to 1800 advances our knowledge of early American culture. Including works by more than ninety women, many of whom have never before been published, this ambitious anthology cap… OL16100538W
Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Women writers and journalists in the nineteenth-century south Jonathan Daniel Wells "The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into southern intellectual life, the fight for women's r… OL16298220W
Arab women writers Arab women writers Ferial Ghazoul,Radwa Ashour,Hasna Reda-mekdashi "Arab women's writing in the modern age began with A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study - first publis… OL16941734W
African American women writers African American women writers Brenda Scott Wilkinson Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Terry McMillan. OL18150351W
The PowerBook The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson An e-writer called Ali will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it to someone else. OL1918799W
Women crime writers Women crime writers Sarah Weinman Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind-- OL19662218W
Journeys in new worlds Journeys in new worlds William L. Andrews Contains primary source material. OL19667171W
The female tradition in southern literature The female tradition in southern literature Carol S. Manning This collection of critical essays examines the contributions to and influences on literature that have been made by Southern women writers.--From publisher description. OL20433436W
The Promised Land? The Promised Land? Lorna Martens "From the 1960s on, women writers in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), including Christa Wolf, Irmtraud Morgner, Sarah Kirsch, Brigitte Reimann, Charlotte Worgitzky, Lia Pirskawetz, and Maya Wien… OL2961019W
Des femmes écrivent l'Afrique Des femmes écrivent l'Afrique Judith Graves Miller,Aminata Diaw,Christiane Owusu-Sarpong,Esi Sutherland-Addy Contains over 100 texts originating in nine different languages from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia, spanning the millennia from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to 21st century … OL32770486W
To write like a woman To write like a woman Joanna Russ From the back cover: Joanna Russ has written -- as novelist, short-story writer, and critic -- on science fiction, fantasy, and feminism. These essays reflect the breadth of Russ's critical work,… OL3332547W
Victorian women's fiction Victorian women's fiction Shirley Foster 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 contemp… OL3531688W
Rooms with a view Rooms with a view Giancarlo Lombardi "The ideal coexistence of the internal and external world, that of the emotions and that of politics, lies at the core of most feminist fictional diaries. This analysis of fictional journals aims at … OL6211864W
How should I read these? How should I read these? Helen Hoy "One of the few books on contemporary Native writing in Canada, Halen Hoy's absorbing and provocative work raises and addresses questions around 'difference' and the locations of cultural insider and… OL6223795W
Mothers of the novel Mothers of the novel Dale Spender Lady Mary Wroath - Anne Weamys - Katherine Philips - Eliza Haywood - Sarah Fielding - Charlotte Lennox - Elizabeth Inchbald - Ann Radcliffe- Mary Wollstonecraft - Fanny Burney - Maria Edgeworth - Ame… OL737827W
The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Annie Barrows,Mary Ann Shaffer "I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of t… OL9334371W