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  • Published: 17 November 1992
  • ISBN: 9780679736332
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $49.99

Written by Herself: Volume I

Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology




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.

  • Published: 17 November 1992
  • ISBN: 9780679736332
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $49.99

About the author

Jill Ker Conway

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, NSW, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her PhD from Harvard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving for ten years as President of Smith College. In 1985 she became a visiting scholar and professor in MIT's Program in Science, Technology and Society.

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