Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.Contents:My Story Ends With Freedom. from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobsfrom Dust Tacks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurstonfrom My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Andersonfrom I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouResearch Is a Passion With Me: Women Scientists and Physicians. from A History of Psychology in Autobiography by Margaret Floy Washburnfrom Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Bakerfrom Unpublished Memoir by Dorothy Reed Mendenhallfrom Research is a Passion with Me by Margaret Morse Nicefrom Stranger and Friend by Hortense Powdermakerfrom An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Cecilia Payne Gaposchkinfrom Blackberry Winter by Margaret MeadArts and Letters. from A New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcomfrom On Journey by Vida Dutton Scudderfrom Modeling my Life by Janet Scudderfrom The Woman Within by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgowfrom Journey Around My Room by Louise Boganfrom Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-Whitefrom The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong KingstonPioneers and Reformers. from The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shawfrom Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addamsfrom My Days of Strength by Anne Walter Fearnfrom Margaret Sanger by Margaret Sangerfrom I Change Worlds by Anna Louise Strongfrom This Life I've Led by Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem