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BURNEY BROWNIK ] HARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY E SAND "HER D DI ' 31111003849336 OLF D CF PT.Tom ALCOTT n WEII^' 'ESE HEI ^ i C.A '©S^ .TTL ,-^d EORGE ELIOT u SHELLEY U UE biT^fe.L T STOWE BURNE^C^Q^Si^f^ J OWNING DICKINSOR t^^ MO GEOR Mm WOC-r BY AUS )1NESEN GEORG^ELil D PLATH ALCOTSr P ^ . _ - ^ , "" HELLMi^iNi n DICKINSON; a ^o>rr^ 3 AUSTEN D WOOLF D BROWNING C . ^ "' " GASKELL D COLETTE D DE,^TAft oL ELIOT D.BRONTE D WEIL D DIN|r LATH D STEIN D GASKELL D SHELlI^ '^— LERS n AUSTEN n WOO^^ '^ ^'^^'' $10.00 n m ON Xitei%* CO r) o o Women ^^ en GreatTOteis ^Ue&nM^oeiS with 24 pages of illustrations A brilliant, controversial look at the literary traditions established over the last two centuries by the great writers who happen also to have been women. In this landmark book, Ellen Moers investigates the lives and works of women writers — all the way from Fanny Burney to EricaJong — to show that the label ''feminine" stands for much more than a single point of view or style. That indeed new genres and new insights were born as female awarenesses and assertions become part of modern literature. She explains, for example, why such women as Harriet Beecher Stowe were the first to write impassioned ex- poses ofslavery, George Sand to cham- pion the people and George Eliot the Jews. Why Charlotte Bronte and Louisa May Alcott explored in fiction the harsh realities of earning a living, why Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf paid attention to money. How the Gothic novel has thrived on female (continuedon hack flap) m^i'^li^^ M„g^3, Ellen ^ '^ Literary women 809.89287 MOERS ^76 CENTRAL LIBRARY fJUL 2 1976^ DATE DUE Nf!An ? I) lyyu DEC 2 1 199? fFfB 5 '9? 7 •J iM i ;, VifUl^^^\j\i ^s. J / ALSO BY ELLEN MOERS Two Dreisers The Dandy: Brummell to B^erbohm LITERARY WOMEN I WOMEN LITERARY M Moers Ellen DOUBLEDAY& COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 1976 Some of the material in this book has appeared in the following publications: The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, Saturday Review, The Colum- bia Forum. Other material originally appeared in Harper's Magazine as "The Angry Young Women," and in Commentary as "Money, the Job, and Little Women," copyright © 1972 by American Jewish Committee. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Moers, Ellen, 1928- Literary women. Bibliography: p. 269. Includes index. 1. Women authors. I. Title. PN471.M63 809'.89287 ISBN: 0-385-07427-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-33686 © Copyright 1963, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 by Ellen Moers All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition Grateful acknowledgmentis made for permission to include the following: Lines from "Hawk Is a Woman" by Hildegarde Planner, from // There Is Time by Hildegarde Planner, copyright 1942 by New Directions. Reprinted by permission of the author. Lines from "Prologue/The Evidence" from Half-Lives by Erica Jong. Copyright © 1971, 1972, 1973 by Erica Mann Jong. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Publishers. Lines from "Patal Interview" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper & Row, Pub- lishers, Inc. Copyright 1931, 1958 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis. Four lines from "The Exorcists," from To Bedlam and Part Way Back. Copyright © 1960 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Houghton Mifflin Company. Lines from "The Insatiable Baby" by Cynthia MacDonald, George Brazilier, Inc. From Amputations by Cynthia MacDonald. Reprinted with the permission of the © publisher. Copyright 1972 by Cynthia MacDonald. "Epigram" by Anna Akhmatova, copyright © 1973 by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Originally appeared inPoetry. From Poems of Akhmatova. Selected, Trans- lated and Introduced by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward. By permission of Little, Brown and Co. in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press. Material from "Dedicatory" by Willa Gather, reprinted from April Twilights © (1903) by Willa Gather, edited with an introduction by Bernice Slote, copyright 1962, 1968 by the University of Nebraska Press.
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