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Passionate minds : women rewriting the world / Claudia Roth Pierpont.

Van Pelt Library PS151 .P54 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pierpont, Claudia Roth.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature.
American literature--Women authors.
United States.
History.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Great Britain.
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English literature.
English literature--Women authors.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Authors, American.
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
Authors, English.
Women authors, American--Biography.
Women authors, American.
Women authors, English--Biography.
Women authors, English.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xiii, 298 pages : portraits ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.
Summary:
In a series of extraordinary explorations of the biographies, psychologies, and literary achievements of 12 women writers, Pierpont examines their their lives and art and discusses the progress that has taken place in the lives and attitudes of women over the past century. 11 photos.
Contents:
A Woman's Place / Olive Schreiner 3
The Mother of Confusion / Gertrude Stein 33
Sex, Lies, and Thirty-five Thousand Pages / Anais Nin 51
The Strong Woman / Mae West 81
A Study in Scarlett / Margaret Mitchell 97
A Society of One / Zora Neale Hurston 133
A Perfect Lady / Eudora Welty 155
The Rage of Aphrodite / Marina Tsvetaeva 175
Twilight of the Goddess / Ayn Rand 199
Memoirs of a Revolutionary / Doris Lessing 223
Hearts and Minds / Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy 251.
Notes:
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
ISBN:
0679431063
OCLC:
41452703

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