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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... wanted , such an at- titude was in itself unhelpful . She assumed that I would feel the same as she did , and by a gen- tle persuasion and reluctance to inculcate in me any spirit of objec- tivity , had made it impossible for me to do ...
... wanted , such an at- titude was in itself unhelpful . She assumed that I would feel the same as she did , and by a gen- tle persuasion and reluctance to inculcate in me any spirit of objec- tivity , had made it impossible for me to do ...
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... wanted me to go and visit him . I wanted to , but I hated the thought of going to that place . To go back to prison after you've come out is really hor- rible . But I did go to visit him . I walked through those gates , and I could hear ...
... wanted me to go and visit him . I wanted to , but I hated the thought of going to that place . To go back to prison after you've come out is really hor- rible . But I did go to visit him . I walked through those gates , and I could hear ...
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... wanted you to know that I have a publisher . " The words I had wanted to hear , had wanted Mama to hear , did not move me . Instead of responding jubilantly , I said , " I lost my mother a month ago and ... " The agent interrupted me ...
... wanted you to know that I have a publisher . " The words I had wanted to hear , had wanted Mama to hear , did not move me . Instead of responding jubilantly , I said , " I lost my mother a month ago and ... " The agent interrupted me ...
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Margery Perham 18951982 | 2 |
Vera Brittain 1893?1970 | 66 |
Angelica Garnett 1918 | 117 |
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