Written by Herself: Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United StatesJill K. Conway Vintage Books, 1996 "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."--Provided by publisher. |
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... mother for creating such a home for us . There was one room and a kitchen . That was all . This one room served as a ... mother I grew to love beautiful things . I am the only child of my mother to have inherited her dark skin colour ...
... mother for creating such a home for us . There was one room and a kitchen . That was all . This one room served as a ... mother I grew to love beautiful things . I am the only child of my mother to have inherited her dark skin colour ...
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... mother's grief was primitive and all - encompassing ; it sucked the oxygen out of the air . A heavy drugged sensation filled my head and my body whenever I came back into the apartment . We none of us - not my brother , not I ...
... mother's grief was primitive and all - encompassing ; it sucked the oxygen out of the air . A heavy drugged sensation filled my head and my body whenever I came back into the apartment . We none of us - not my brother , not I ...
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... mother . Frances , a pretty girl with " ambitions , " married a rich man . Sophie has been dead a good ten years now . I haven't seen any of her children in more than twenty years . " I dreamed I was in Sophie's house , " my mother says ...
... mother . Frances , a pretty girl with " ambitions , " married a rich man . Sophie has been dead a good ten years now . I haven't seen any of her children in more than twenty years . " I dreamed I was in Sophie's house , " my mother says ...
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Margery Perham 18951982 | 2 |
from TESTAMENT OF YOUTH | 66 |
Angelica Garnett 1918 | 117 |
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Written by Herself: Volume 2: Women's Memoirs From Britain, Africa, Asia and ... Jill Ker Conway Перегляд фрагмента - 1996 |
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