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BKLYN Women's History Month: Women Writers Throughout History

March is Women's History Month, and we're featuring books written by women. This list includes literature by women throughout history: fiction, poetry, and memoir; some classics and some a bit lesser-known. Also check out our list of influential feminists texts: https://brooklyn.bibliocommons.com/list/share/605271467_bklyncorinab/866562117_womens_history_month_feminist_classics

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Margaret the first
Danielle Dutton.
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The pillow book of Sei Shonagon
translated by Arthur Waley ; with a foreword by Dennis Washburn.
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Sleepless nights
Elizabeth Hardwick ; introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien.
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The envelope poems
Emily Dickinson ; with transcriptions by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin.
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The complete stories
Zora Neale Hurston ; introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke.
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Thus were their faces
Silvina Ocampo ; translated from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston ; introduction by Helen Oyeyemi ; preface by Jorge Luis Borges.
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Subtly worded and other stories
Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Anne Marie Jackson with Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg and Natalia Wase.
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Our spoons came from Woolworths
Barbara Comyns ; introduction by Emily Gould.
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Passing
Nella Larsen ; introduction by Ntozake Shange ; critical foreword and notes by Mae Henderson.
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The yellow wall-paper, Herland, and selected writings
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; edited with an introduction and notes by Denise D. Knight.
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