American Women Writers: A Crifical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present (4-VOLUME SET)

Detroit, Michigan: St James Press, 1999. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this 4-VOLUME SET would be graded in fine condition); overall a very nice used 4-VOLUME SET! Blue boards with yellow and white lettering. 1326 historical and informative pages! "In a memorandum to contributors, Lina Mainiero, the founding editor of American Women Writers described the project she envisioned in 1978: Written wholly by women critics, this reference work is designed as a four-volume survey of American women writers from colonial days to the present.....Most entries will be on women who have written what is traditionally defined as literature. But AWW will also include entries on writers in other fields.....I see AWW as a precious opportunity for women ----- those who write it and those who read it ----- to integrate at a more self-conscious level a variety of reading experience. The result was a document of its time, a period when feminism was associated with building sisterhood and raising consciousness........." ---- from the Foreword. (4-VOLUME SET).. Second Edition. Blue Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.