In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States

by Jill Ker Conway

Book Overview

Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. In Her Own Words is Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world she came from, compared with major themes in women's lives in the United States, which is now her home. In this dazzling collection, we meet twelve remarkable women--from Shirley Chisholm, the West Indian-raised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679781536
• ISBN13: 9780679781530
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"