Women Authors in Literary Theory & Criticism & Fiction & Literature eBooks

A Room Of One's Own

The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

by Virginia Woolf ...

Series Book 23 - The Virginia Woolf Library
Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon. ... Read more

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Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon.
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Bad Feminist

Essays

by Roxane Gay ...

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • <... ... Read more

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“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe • Newsweek • Time Out New York • Oprah.com • <...
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Anne Brontë: Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë ...

Contains links to a FREE AUDIOBOOK that can be downloaded to your device!At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was in ... Read more

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Contains links to a FREE AUDIOBOOK that can be downloaded to your device!At age 19 Anne Brontë left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience as a governess. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a governess and how that can affect a young woman. Agnes was the daughter of a minister whose family was in
... Read more
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë ...

This ebook contains links to a FREE AUDIOBOOK that can be directly downloaded to your device!Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position ... Read more

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This ebook contains links to a FREE AUDIOBOOK that can be directly downloaded to your device!Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester.The loneliness and cruelty of Jane’s childhood strengthens her natural independence and spirit, which prove invaluable when she takes a position
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The Greatest Novels by O. Douglas

Enriched edition. Olivia in India, The Setons, Penny Plain, Ann and Her Mother & Pink Sugar

by Anna Buchan, Finnian Chase ...

In "The Greatest Novels by O. Douglas," Anna Buchan offers a meticulously crafted exploration of the literary contributions of her pseudonymous brother, O. Douglas (a pen name for the Scottish author, Anna Buchan herself). The book serves not only as a critical assessment of Douglas's works but also engages with the broader literary context of early 20th-century Scottish fiction. Buchan ... Read more

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In "The Greatest Novels by O. Douglas," Anna Buchan offers a meticulously crafted exploration of the literary contributions of her pseudonymous brother, O. Douglas (a pen name for the Scottish author, Anna Buchan herself). The book serves not only as a critical assessment of Douglas's works but also engages with the broader literary context of early 20th-century Scottish fiction. Buchan
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There's a Monster in the Lake

The World as a Fantastical Place

by Laura Fernández ...

A witty meditation revealing what our obsession with monsters says about wonder, reality, and narrative itselfWhat does the Loch Ness Monster tell us about belief, tourism, and the stories we need to survive? In this formally innovative essay, award-winning Spanish writer Laura Fernández travels to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the legend of Nessie and develops a perspective on humanity’s ... Read more

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A witty meditation revealing what our obsession with monsters says about wonder, reality, and narrative itselfWhat does the Loch Ness Monster tell us about belief, tourism, and the stories we need to survive? In this formally innovative essay, award-winning Spanish writer Laura Fernández travels to the Scottish Highlands to investigate the legend of Nessie and develops a perspective on humanity’s
... Read more
Never Never Yes Yes

The Novels, Stories & Crônicas of Clarice Lispector

by David Vernon ...

'This much-needed book is written with exhilarating energy and close attention to the expressive power of Lispector's language. A pleasure to read, it invites newcomers and experienced readers alike to share Vernon's passion for Clarice Lispector and explore the beauty and complexity of her work.' - Prof Luana Ferreira de Freitas, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil'It is easy to assume the value ... Read more

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'This much-needed book is written with exhilarating energy and close attention to the expressive power of Lispector's language. A pleasure to read, it invites newcomers and experienced readers alike to share Vernon's passion for Clarice Lispector and explore the beauty and complexity of her work.' - Prof Luana Ferreira de Freitas, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil'It is easy to assume the value
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The Mockingbird Next Door

Life with Harper Lee

by Marja Mills ...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has lived with her sister, Alice, for decades, trying and failing to get an ... Read more

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has lived with her sister, Alice, for decades, trying and failing to get an
... Read more
Eros the Bittersweet

by Anne Carson ...

Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, ... Read more

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view,
... Read more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Essays

by Joan Didion ...

Series series FSG Classics
Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the “foundational text” of her oeuvre (New York Times). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.More than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion—one of the most distinctive prose ... Read more

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Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the “foundational text” of her oeuvre (New York Times). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.More than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion—one of the most distinctive prose
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In Rough Country

Essays and Reviews

by Joyce Carol Oates ...

“A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America’s premier authors.”—Kirkus ReviewsIn Rough Country is a sterling collection of literary essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers—from Poe to Nabokov, from Flannery O’Connor to Phillip Roth. One of our foremost novelists, National Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award ... Read more

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“A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America’s premier authors.”—Kirkus ReviewsIn Rough Country is a sterling collection of literary essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers—from Poe to Nabokov, from Flannery O’Connor to Phillip Roth. One of our foremost novelists, National Book Award and PEN/Malamud Award
... Read more
This Little Art

by Kate Briggs ...

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

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An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this
... Read more
Charlotte Brontë

A Fiery Heart

by Claire Harman ...

On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine.Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman’s biography is that it ... Read more

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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine.Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman’s biography is that it
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Matrilineal Dissent

Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

Edited by Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Ashley Walters ...

Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.National Jewish Book Award Finalist: The Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's Studies!Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers' wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features ... Read more

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Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.National Jewish Book Award Finalist: The Barbara Dobkin Award in Women's Studies!Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers' wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features
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EMMA

by Jane Austen ...

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. ... Read more

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Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.
... Read more
My Ántonia (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

by Willa Cather ...

FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary clazzics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

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FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary clazzics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations,
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A Crumpled Swan

by David Collard ...

A year of intensive close reading and personal reflection led to this uniquely entertaining collection of essays about poetry in general and one remarkable poem in particular: 'In the dream of the cold restaurant' by Abigail Parry.Whether you're a seasoned poetry reader or a curious newcomer, this engaging and constantly surprising book offers a generous, idiosyncratic take on what poetry is, what ... Read more

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A year of intensive close reading and personal reflection led to this uniquely entertaining collection of essays about poetry in general and one remarkable poem in particular: 'In the dream of the cold restaurant' by Abigail Parry.Whether you're a seasoned poetry reader or a curious newcomer, this engaging and constantly surprising book offers a generous, idiosyncratic take on what poetry is, what
... Read more
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost

Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books

by Pamela Smith Hill ...

Named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder of her lifetime and through most of the twentieth century. They were translated into dozens of languages; generations of children read ... Read more

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Named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder of her lifetime and through most of the twentieth century. They were translated into dozens of languages; generations of children read
... Read more
A Dead White

An Argument Against White Paint

by Wendy S Walters ...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values.It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than ... Read more

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn impassioned, boundary-pushing work of criticism traversing an array of subjects, from fine arts to design to architecture, taking aim at the ubiquity of white paint in our society and what its prevalence reveals about our values.It’s hard to identify a material that takes up more sensory space and has received less critical examination than
... Read more
Jane Austen

A Brief Life

by Fiona Stafford ...

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by ... Read more

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Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Austen come to write novels that have commanded the attention of some of the most brilliant minds ever since? Why were hers the books that Darwin knew by
... Read more
The Abandoners

On Mothers and Monsters

by Begoña Gómez Urzaiz ...

Translated by Lizzie Davis ...

**One of NPR's "Books We Love" in 2024An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers—in history, literature, and pop culture—who have abandoned their children.**What kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz became fixated on ... Read more

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**One of NPR's "Books We Love" in 2024An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers—in history, literature, and pop culture—who have abandoned their children.**What kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz became fixated on
... Read more
A Horse at Night

On Writing

by Amina Cain ...

“A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book.” —Ayşegül Savaş“I adore her work, and sensibility,” writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain; and Jenny Offill: “Cain writes beautiful precise ... Read more

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“A Horse at Night is like light from a candle in the evening: intimate, pleasurable, full of wonder. It asks us to consider fiction as life and life as fiction. Amina Cain is our generous, gentle guide through an exquisite library. A truly beautiful book.” —Ayşegül Savaş“I adore her work, and sensibility,” writes Claire-Louise Bennett of Amina Cain; and Jenny Offill: “Cain writes beautiful precise
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Women Writing the American Artist in Novels of Development from 1850-1932

The Artist Embodied

by Rickie-Ann Legleitner ...

In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist novels, American women writers challenge cultural, social, and legal systems that attempt to limit or diminish women’s embodied capabilities outside of the domestic. Women writers such as E.D.E.N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Jessie Fauset, and Zelda Fitzgerald use the artist novel to highlight the structural and ... Read more

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In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist novels, American women writers challenge cultural, social, and legal systems that attempt to limit or diminish women’s embodied capabilities outside of the domestic. Women writers such as E.D.E.N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Jessie Fauset, and Zelda Fitzgerald use the artist novel to highlight the structural and
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Jane Austen's Prayers

Comforting words from a most beloved author

by Emma Darlington ...

Emma Darlington presents Jane Austen's prayers in print for the first time.See Jane Austen's original prayers in her beautiful handwriting that she wrote over 200 years ago with text alongside the manuscripts for easy reading.Jane Austen is known as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty and romantic novels. What is less known is that Jane was a deeply religious person ... Read more

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Emma Darlington presents Jane Austen's prayers in print for the first time.See Jane Austen's original prayers in her beautiful handwriting that she wrote over 200 years ago with text alongside the manuscripts for easy reading.Jane Austen is known as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty and romantic novels. What is less known is that Jane was a deeply religious person
... Read more

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