Written by Herself: Volume 2: Women's Memoirs From Britain, Africa, Asia and the United StatesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996 - 704 стор. In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with which they transform life into literature. Here are England's Vera Brittain, commemorating the deaths of the men she loved in the carnage of World War I; Emma Mashinini, who endured imprisonment and torture as a labor organizer in South Africa; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the daughter of Indian aristocracy who became an architect of her country's independence; and Edith Mirante, the wisecracking American whose passion for justice took her to the opium trails of Burma. Collected in this stirring volume, their voices demonstrate the ways in which women strive for power, inclusion, and autonomy-- and never fail to move, inspire, and instruct us. Contributors include: Margery Perham,Isak Dinesen,Shudha Mazumdar,Vivian Gornick, Vera Brittain, Elspeth Huxley, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Angelica Garnett, Emma Mashinini, Meena Alexander, Edith Mirante, Mary Benson, and Ruth First. |
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... looked , in the distance , like a garden full of purple , orange and crimson flowers . " Eh , Morena , " they yelled , deep in their throats , and then were at a loss how to address me . Then a woman decided I was one of her sex and in ...
... looked , in the distance , like a garden full of purple , orange and crimson flowers . " Eh , Morena , " they yelled , deep in their throats , and then were at a loss how to address me . Then a woman decided I was one of her sex and in ...
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... looked more Hamitic than Negro . Certainly this dance showed the Zulu off in all his glory . The impressiveness became almost overwhelming . I was sur- rounded by these flashing brown bodies with muscles running up and down skins glossy ...
... looked more Hamitic than Negro . Certainly this dance showed the Zulu off in all his glory . The impressiveness became almost overwhelming . I was sur- rounded by these flashing brown bodies with muscles running up and down skins glossy ...
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... looked noble and heraldic in their green sashes , like figures from Egyptian friezes . Tilly said she never grew entirely used to seeing them in the house , it was as if one were to come across a couple of panthers in the boudoir . She ...
... looked noble and heraldic in their green sashes , like figures from Egyptian friezes . Tilly said she never grew entirely used to seeing them in the house , it was as if one were to come across a couple of panthers in the boudoir . She ...
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Margery Perham 18951982 | 2 |
Vera Brittain 1893?1970 | 66 |
Angelica Garnett 1918 | 117 |
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