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Aug 17, 2008 · In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience.
- Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Jan 1, 1988 · She explores how women like the Bronte sisters and George Sand and George Eliot sought anonymity by taking names of men. Heilbrun claims women poets led in writing truth about their lives, women such as Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton as well as her favorite Virginia Woolf.
'A provocative study that should be in every writer's library.'— Washington Post , Writing a Woman's Life, Carolyn G Heilbrun, Katha Pollitt, 9780393331646
Aug 12, 2009 · Writing a woman's life. by. Heilbrun, Carolyn G., 1926-2003. Publication date. 1988. Topics. Women, Biography as a literary form, Autobiography, Women, Women and literature, Biografía (Como forma literaria), Autobiografía, Femmes, Biographie (Genre littéraire), Femmes, Autobiographie, Literaire biografie. Publisher.
Jan 1, 1988 · Brilliant woman, wonderful writing, acute insight into our patriarchal society and the frequently unconscious ways it limits girls and women in their lives. Should be required reading in early high school.
- Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Sep 2, 1989 · Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life.
- Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Jul 29, 2008 · In this modern classic, Carolyn G. Heilbrun builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience.
- Carolyn G Heilbrun
