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Written by Herself: Volume 2
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.95In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled... more...
When Memory Speaks
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95J ill Ker Conway, one of our most admired autobiographers--author of The Road from Coorain and True North--looks astutely and with feeling into the modern memoir: the forms and styles it assumes, and the strikingly different ways in which men and women respectively tend to understand and present their lives. In a narrative rich with evocations of... more...
Written by Herself: Volume I
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 21.00The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston.... more...
A Woman's Education
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00The acclaimed author of the best-selling The Road from Coorain and True North now gives us the third book in her remarkable continuing memoir?describing the pleasures, the challenges, and the constant surprises (good and bad) of her years as the first woman president of Smith College. The story opens in 1973 as Conway, unbeknownst to her, is first... more...
The Road from Coorain
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.95Jill Ker Conway is a noted historian, specializing in the experience of women in America, and was the first woman president of Smith College. more...
In Her Own Words
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 23.00Jill 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... more...
A Woman's Education
Random House 2011; US$ 13.34Conway opens with her assessment of her life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president. Settling into her new environment, she is at once struck by the beauty of the Connecticut Valley and the Olmstead-designed Smith campus - but also by the College's... more...
The Road From Coorain
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College). more...
True North
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95True North is the inspirational Canadian Chapter of Jill Ker Conway's life story, which began with her much love, bestselling memoir, The Road from Coorain. Beginning with her departure from Australia, Jill Ker Conway tells of her romance with Harvard House Master John Conway, of coming to grips with his manic-depressive disorder, and of their... more...
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