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BKLYN Women's History Month: Women Writers Throughout History
March is Women's History Month, and we're featuring books written by women. This list includes literature by women throughout history: fiction, poetry, and memoir; some classics and some a bit lesser-known. Also check out our list of influential feminists texts: https://brooklyn.bibliocommons.com/list/share/605271467_bklyncorinab/866562117_womens_history_month_feminist_classics
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The complete stories
Zora Neale Hurston ; introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke. |
Thus were their faces
Silvina Ocampo ; translated from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston ; introduction by Helen Oyeyemi ; preface by Jorge Luis Borges. |
Subtly worded and other stories
Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Anne Marie Jackson with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg and Natalia Wase. |
Passing
Nella Larsen ; introduction by Ntozake Shange ; critical foreword and notes by Mae Henderson. |
The yellow wall-paper, Herland, and selected writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; edited with an introduction and notes by Denise D. Knight. |
The word that causes death's defeat
Anna Akhmatova ; translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson. |
The passion according to G.H.
Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese, with a note, by Idra Novey ; introduction by Caetano Veloso ; edited by Benjamin Moser. |
