Paperback, 144 pages

English language

Published Jan. 21, 2002 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-36256-8
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OCLC Number:
20299251

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Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life. Refreshing and insightful, this is an homage to brave women past and present, and an invitation to all women to write their own scripts, whatever they may be.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Women -- Biography -- History and criticism.
  • Biography as a literary form.
  • Autobiography -- Women authors.
  • Women -- Biography -- Authorship.
  • Women and literature.