Women Writers in English Literature

Contents: Preface. 1. Alice walker. 2. Anita Loos. 3. Anne Rice. 4. Audre Lorde. 5. Ayn Rand. 6. C.J. Cherryh. 7. Christine de Pizan. 8. Clare Boothe Luce. 9. Delarivier Manley. 10. Edith Sodergran. 11. Elizabeth Wagele. 12. Emilie Loring. 13. Eve Langley. 14. Flannery O’Connor. 15. Gabriela Zapolska. 16. George Sand. 17. Harriet Ann Jacobs. 18. Hisaye Yamamoto. 19. Ingrid Jonker. 20. Jenny Uglow. 21. Jo Sinclair. 22. Kamala Surayya. 23. Lady Florence Dixie. 24. Leigh Brackett. 25. Lydia Maria Child. 26. Madeleine L Engle. 27. Margaret Mitchell. 28. Mari Sandoz. 29. Maria Dabrowska. 30. Martha Wadsworth Brewster. 31. Mary Sidney. 32. Naomi Mitchison. 33. Olympe de Gouges. 34. Phillis Wheatley. 35. Sappho. 36. Suzanne Lilar. Index.

Women’s writing in the 20 century moved towards a medium of modernism in which womanist and feminist statements were combined with political messages. The writings of women such as Hamsa Wadkar conveyed an honest impression of a world of professional women whose careers in television and stage segregated them as a class apart, yet subjected them to the same brutality and force of patriarchy. In her autobiography, Hamsa Wadkar talks about her life as an action from the age of eleven, her marriage to a suspicious and abusive husband, the birth of a daughter her life after eloping with another man, the imprisonment she faced at his home along with two of his other wives and her rape by a justice of peace.