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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled The Vintage Book of American Women Writers about American, Jury, Peers with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry?
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conversations.value: the author follows her invigorating literary history A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (2009) with an equally substantial and exciting anthology encompassing 350 years and 79 writers of diverse backgrounds, locations, and literary styles, each introduced with brief, vivid biographical sketches. As the author observes, womens writing has been closely allied with the quest for not only womens rights but also universal human rights and justice, as well as literary exploration and excellence. the authors chronological survey of the literary mothers of us all takes measure of the great reach and splendid variety of womens writing and how it has illuminated Americas continuing transformation and shaped American literature. Naturally, such pillars as Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Flannery OConnor are present. But here, too, are versatile Lydia Maria Child, early African American writer Frances E. W. Harper, short story writer Constance Fenimore Woolson, courageous Kate Chopin, blacklisted Meridel Le Sueur, and on to Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Amy Tan, and Jhumpa Lahiri. --Donna Seaman
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conversations.value: As the author observes, womens writing has been closely allied with the quest for not only womens rights but also universal human rights and justice, as well as literary exploration and excellence. the authors chronological survey of the literary mothers of us all takes measure of the great reach and splendid variety of womens writing and how it has illuminated Americas continuing transformation and shaped American literature. Naturally, such pillars as Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Flannery OConnor are present. But here, too, are versatile Lydia Maria Child, early African American writer Frances E. W. Harper, short story writer Constance Fenimore Woolson, courageous Kate Chopin, blacklisted Meridel Le Sueur, and on to Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Amy Tan, and Jhumpa Lahiri. --Donna Seaman