Margaret Leland Goldsmith | Christina of Sweden | Presents information on Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) as part of The Window, a collection of philosophy resources compiled by Chris Marvin and Frank
Mary Casal | The Stone Wall. An Autobiography | In casual, conversational and entirely frank form, a woman born in 1865 (and therefore, at the time of writing, in her sixties) tells the story of her
Donna Minkowitz | Growing Up Golem | Donna Minkowitz contributes to the long-standing Jewish-American literary tradition of agonizing self-excavation with her unadulterated new memoir.
Gloria T. Hull | Give Us Each Day | A significant life, scrappily skimmed. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (I 875-1935) was the widow of black poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (d. 1906), and a writer and a
Virginia Woolf | Moments of Being | Unlike Jane Austen or Dickens or George Eliot, most of the great novelists of the twentieth century have felt an immense pressure toward the autobiogr
Una Vincenzo; Lady Troubridge Una | The Life And Death of Radclyffe Hall | Radclyffe Hall was one of the most preeminent women writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hall was an out lesbian, known for her high profile
Ana Castillo | Black Dove | ‘In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial pro
Carrie Brownstein | Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl | A ‘narrative of [rock guitarist and actor Brownstein’s] escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-inventi
Caroline Paul | Lost Cat | Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident and thought things couldn’t get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partne
Sharon O’Brien | Willa Cather | This is the first biography of Willa Cather to explore thoroughly the connections between her artistic and her psychological growth. Sharon O’Brien ma
