The story of how an ordinary young woman, Margaret Sams, met the challenges of difficult circumstances. The text recounts her ordeal through World War II in the Philippines and the relationship she formed with Jerry Sams while in Santo Tomas camp.
The story of how an ordinary young woman, Margaret Sams, met the challenges of difficult circumstances. The text recounts her ordeal through World War...
-I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method-a form and method whereby the past and the present are constantly brought face to face, resulting in contrasts which newly fire up the interest all along, like contact of flint with steel.- Thus Mark Twain began the first of the twenty-five -Chapters from My Autobiography- published in the North American Review 1906-1907. Those chapters contain a unified account of Twain's life recorded in his own unmistakable voice; in them we read his life's story as he intended it to...
-I intend that this autobiography . . . shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and method-a form and method whereby the p...
Presents the personal narratives of four women in the early days of American settlement. These are tales of exploration beyond conventional boundaries, women's voyages of self-discovery in a new world. The authors include Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Knight, Elizabeth Trist and Elizabeth Ashbridge.
Presents the personal narratives of four women in the early days of American settlement. These are tales of exploration beyond conventional boundaries...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869-1935) was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women's movement in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the struggle for suffrage, Gilman confronted an even larger problem economic and social discrimination against women. Her book, Women and Economics, published in 1898, was repeatedly printed and translated into seven languages. She was a tireless traveler, lecturer, and writer and is perhaps best known for her dramatic short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper." Gilman's autobiography gives us access to the life of a...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1869-1935) was one of the leading intellectuals of the American women's movement in the first two decades of the twentiet...
An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention.
An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can...
On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in the distance--her husband's regiment among them--Cornelia Peake McDonald began her diary of events in war-torn Winchester, Virginia. McDonald's story of the Civil War records a personal and distinctly female battle of her own--a southern woman's lonely struggle in the midst of chaos to provide safety and shelter for herself and her children. For McDonald, history is what happens "inside the house." She relates the trauma that occurs when the safety of the home is disrupted and destroyed by the...
On the night of March 11, 1862, as the heavy tramp of Confederate marching troops died away in the distance--her husband's regiment among them--Cornel...
This collection of essays focuses exclusively on the contribution of American woman to the writing of autiobiography. The authors trace editions of women's life-writing through three and a half centuries, from the narratives of Puritan woman to contemporary multicultural literature. Contributers to the volume include scholars such as: Sidonie Smith, Catharine Stimpson, Ann Gordon, Mary Mason, Nancy Walker, Katheleen Sands, Arlyn Diamond and others whose essays all appear here for the first time.
This collection of essays focuses exclusively on the contribution of American woman to the writing of autiobiography. The authors trace editions of wo...
If the letter is an ideal lens through which to view late-nineteenth-century American society as it underwent radical change, Henry Adams is an ideal correspondent. Joanne Jacobson shows how Adams used letters to broker authority, to construct alliances with correspondents, and to negotiate issues of authorship and audience. She demonstrates the rhetorical complexity of the letter and underscores its role in the struggle over cultural authority which shaped much of late-nineteenth-century American literature. Authority and Alliance takes the reader through the evolving stages of...
If the letter is an ideal lens through which to view late-nineteenth-century American society as it underwent radical change, Henry Adams is an ide...
"I am willing to relate all I can remember, but I wish it clearly understood that it must be in my own way, and at my own time. I will not be hurried or dictated to. It is my history and not yours I propose to tell."--Mariano Guadelupe Vallejo, on "Recuerdos historicos y personales" (1875) My History, Not Yours is a landmark study of the autobiographical writings of Mexican Americans in the century following the US-Mexican War of 1846-1848. Some 75,000 inhabitants of what is now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California were suddenly foreigners on their own lands....
"I am willing to relate all I can remember, but I wish it clearly understood that it must be in my own way, and at my own time. I will not be hurr...
