Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States

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Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States

REFERENCE WORK

Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner Martin, 1995.

People in this reference: 172
Those presently living: 42
Those deceased: 130

White: 136
Black: 28
Asian: 3
Asian/Indian: 2
Multiracial: 2
American Aborigine: 1

United States: 167
England: 2
France: 2
Ancient Greece: 1
Kathy Acker
Abigail Adams
Alice Adams
Jane Addams
Louisa May Alcott
Laurie Anderson
Maya Angelou
Susan B. Anthony
Mary Antin
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
Mary Austin
Toni Cade Bambara
Djuna Barnes
Ann Beattie
Simone de Beauvoir
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Alice Walker
Margaret Walker
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Mercy Otis Warren
Wendy Wasserstein
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Eudora Welty
Dorothy West
Edith Wharton
Phillis Wheatley
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harriet E. Wilson
Virginia Woolf
Elinor Wylie
Anzia Yezierska

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