women and literature

Primary sources help provide a brief introduction to the life and times of African-American poet Phillis Wheatley.

Chronicles the lives and achievements of six talented women writers, including Maya Angelou, Judy Blume, Astrid Lindgren, Jean Little, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.

Collection of essays by the novelists and poet describing life in two cultures and her thoughts on writing.

A series of critical essays on the life and works of eighteenth-century English novelist Jane Austen that includes a chronology and introduction by Harold Bloom.

Contains over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about the lives and achievements, careers, writings, characters, and other aspects of the five literary Brontes, including Patrick, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne.

More than one hundred photos and illustrations fill this biography of early-twentieth-century English writer Virginia Woolf, which describes her life in London's Bloomsbury district, her marriage, her relationship with her sister, and her maturation as a writer.

Contains a collection of critical essays on the works of Kate Chopin; and includes an introduction by Harold Bloom, chronology of the author's life, and notes on the various contributors.

A collection of thirteen critical commentaries on the works of American poet Emily Dickinson, along with an introduction by Harold Bloom.