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1	An American childhood more books like this by Annie Dillard add to wishlist Dillard's autobiography is an exuberant account of growing up in 1950s Pittsburgh in a wealthy and accomplished family. Dillard conveys in polished prose the sheer joy of being young, smart, and passionately observant in a world she sees as endlessly fascinating. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert add to wishlist This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of their own interest in feminist literary criticism. see all copies from £4.07! new only from £9.46! \| first editions
3	Out of Africa more books like this by Isak Dinesen add to wishlist OUT OF AFRICA is the classic account of the experiences of Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation for 17 years, from 1914 to 1931, first with her difficult husband the Baron von Blixen and, after their divorce, by herself. One of the most popular books of the 20th century, it provides a vivid and lyrical ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £9.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Journal of a solitude more books like this by May Sarton add to wishlist An early journal kept by the celebrated novelist and poet, author of "Halfway to Silence" and "The Magnificent Spinster". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx more books like this by Elaine Showalter add to wishlist In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known. see all copies from £15.74! new only from £15.74! \| first editions
6	Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color more books like this by Gloria E Anzaldua (Editor) add to wishlist Essays and creative pieces on a variety of subjects by women of color, exploring their concerns from a feminist perspective. Edited by Gloria Anzaldua, whom the Journal of the Southwest has called "an accomplished writer, able to marshal passionate intensity in support of her attempt to do away with dualities. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.15! \| first editions
7	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Volume 1: The Traditions in English more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert (Editor), Professor Susan Gubar (Editor) add to wishlist Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English. see all copies from £10.53! new only from £17.43!
8	No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: Sexchanges more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert, Professor Susan Gubar add to wishlist With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In Volume One Gilbert and Gubar survey the social, literary, and linguistic conflicts between men and ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £7.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties more books like this by Marion Meade add to wishlist This survey of the most prominent writers of the 1920s includes F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edna Ferber, Edmund Wilson, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and many more. Marion Meade also explores the ambiance of the period--the drinking, partying, and pranks, as well as the depression, instability, alcoholism, and insanity. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.73! \| first editions
10	This Bridge Called My Back more books like this by Cherrie L Moraga (Editor), Gloria E Anzaldua (Editor), Johnetta Tinker (Illustrator) add to wishlist This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. 65,000 copies in print. see all copies from £16.72! new only from £126.37!
11 view cover	Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism more books like this by Trinh T Minh-Ha, T Minh-Ha Trinh add to wishlist see all copies from £1.79! new only from £9.48! \| first editions
12 view cover	Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography more books like this by P D James add to wishlist British civil servant and acclaimed mystery writer P. D. James offers snippets of her life and musings in diary form. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	House by the Sea more books like this by May Sarton add to wishlist May Sarton's record of her solitary move to the coast of Maine after her companion enters a nursing home. see all copies from £3.03! new only from £7.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Top Girls more books like this by Caryl Churchill add to wishlist Marlene hosts a dinner part in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904), the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258), the mediaeval Japanese courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.34! \| first editions
15 view cover	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette more books like this by Judith Thurman add to wishlist This biography of Colette puts her into the context of the changing world in which she lived and wrote, and explores her effect on it. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, Volume 2: The Traditions in English more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert (Editor), Professor Susan Gubar (Editor) add to wishlist Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women's writing in English. see all copies from £13.64! new only from £37.08!
17 view cover	African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color more books like this by Cherrie Moraga add to wishlist see all copies from £39.84!
19 view cover	Vampire Companion more books like this by Katherine M Ramsland add to wishlist Written with the full cooperation of Anne Rice - and now with more than 1,200 entries - The Vampire Companion offers an insightful exploration, appreciation, and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in the five volumes of The Vampire Chronicles, including more than one hundred pages of new entries ... see all copies from £1.43! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Anais Nin: A Biography more books like this by Deirdre Bair add to wishlist In the first biography written with exclusive access to Anais Nin's complete, original diary and with the full cooperation of her surviving husband, family and friends, Bair offers a dazzling exploration of one of the most complex and complexing women of our time. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of a prolific and talented writer whose most ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.35! \| first editions
21 view cover	At Home in the World: A Memoir more books like this by Joyce Maynard add to wishlist Joyce Maynard tells all about her youthful affair with J. D. Salinger. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.79! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	My Emily Dickinson more books like this by Susan Howe add to wishlist Finally, "My Emily Dickinson," Susan Howe's singular and unforgettable 1985 creative study, is available as a New Directions paperbook. With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.80! \| first editions
23 view cover	Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America more books like this by Joy Harjo, Valerie Martinez (Editor), Gloria Bird (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of writings by 87 Native American women writers from some 50 tribal nations includes prayers, testimonials, personal narratives, essays, poetry and fiction. Well-known writers such as Louis Erdrich, Linda Hogan and Leslie Marmon Silko have pieces in the collection, as do many other less well-known and first time writers. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	At Eighty-Two: A Journal more books like this by May Sarton add to wishlist Sarton's last volume of diaries--her record of daily life at her seaside home in Maine--was completed just before her death in 1995. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.73! \| first editions
25 view cover	Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me more books like this by Craig Seligman add to wishlist Craig Seligman adored his friend Pauline Kael for her easy acceptance of pop culture in the context of her fiercely intelligent movie reviews. He writes approvingly of her here, even as he writes with less tolerance of a critic he feels is equally important, Susan Sontag. Sontag, Seligman feels, is arrogant and elitist and, worst of all, humorless ... see all copies from £1.48! new only from £1.48! \| first editions

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