by Jane Hyman (1986)
Gumby, a clay figure, introduces the initial sounds of the letters of the alphabet as he and his horse, Pokey, recollect past experiences.
Herbert Ellis
A biography of the French woman whose skill at modelling wax figures brought her fame before and during the French revolution and later in the British Isles where she eventually settled and established her famous museum.
Cara Mentzel
"Voice Lessons is the story of one younger sister growing up in the shadow of a larger-than-life older sister--looking up to her, wondering how they were alike and how they were different and, ultimately, learning how to live her own life and speak in her own voice on her own terms."--Amazon.com.
Susan Taylor-Boyd
Follows the life and work of the feminist who wrote "The Feminine Mystique" and helped found the National Organization for Women.
Sherry M. Velasco
Isabel de Jesus was a seventeenth-century Carmelite nun who manipulated traditional religious rhetoric in the manner of St. Teresa to express resistance to a misogynistic tradition. Her fascinating autobiography provides a rich source for examining strategies employed by women religious writers. Velasco discusses Isabel's extraordinary ability to articulate the double binds women writers faced, her multiple symbolic uses of nausea and vomiting, and her use of the voice of the Devil as a spokesman for traditional male views. This important in-depth study illustrates how Isabel reshapes symbolic logic in ways that permit her to defend her authority as a writer. Literary scholars will find the discussion of rhetorical strategies and metanarrative discourse engaging as will specialists in religious studies, women's studies, and early modern history.