Written by Herself: Volume I Autobiographies

The 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.

Jill Ker Conway was born in Hillston, New South Wales, Australia, graduated from the University of Sydney in 1958, and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. From 1964 to 1975 she taught at the University of Toronto and was Vice President there before serving for ten years as President of Smith College. Since 1985 she has been a visiting scholar and professor in M.I.T.'s Program in Science, Technology and Society, and she now lives in Boston, Massachusetts.<br><br>NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS:<br><br>Margery Perham (1895-1982) went to Africa to study race relations on a Rhodes Fellowship. Her sojourn in Africa made her an expert on tribal institutions and a passionate and lifelong supporter of the rights of native peoples, in her writings and as director of the Institute of Col

Introduction
My Story Ends With Freedom	p. 3
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	p. 6
from Dust Tacks on a Road	p. 33
from My Lord, What a Morning	p. 54
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	p. 98
Research Is a Passion With Me: Women Scientists and Physicians	p. 125
from A History of Psychology in Autobiography	p. 130
from Fighting for Life	p. 143
from Unpublished Memoir	p. 171
from Research is a Passion with Me	p. 200
from Stranger and Friend	p. 226
from An Autobiography and Other Recollections	p. 248
from Blackberry Winter	p. 283
Arts and Letters 309
from A New England Girlhood	p. 312
from On Journey	p. 333
from Modeling my Life	p. 348
from The Woman Within	p. 372
from Journey Around My Room	p. 401
from Portrait of Myself	p. 423
from The Woman Warrior	p. 454
Pioneers and Reformers	p. 471
from The Story of a Pioneer	p. 474
from Twenty Years at Hull-House	p. 504
from My Days of Strength	p. 526
from Margaret Sanger	p. 548
from I Change Worlds	p. 610
from This Life I've Led	p. 638
from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions	p. 657
Editions Cited	p. 673
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Written by Herself: Volume I Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology

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