New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A landmark anthology with selections from the memoirs, letters, and diaries many 20th-century women, including Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Bernadette Devlin, Emily Mashinini, Sara Suleri, Isak Dinesen, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Santha Rama Rau and others. Among the selections are those of "Le Ly Hayslip, the sixth child in a Vietnamese peasant family, describes a life pinched between the violence of Viet Cong revolutionaries and South Vietnamese republicans. Poet and lesbian feminist Audre Lorde writes about being introduced to the wonders of reading as a stubborn, bright, legally blind youngster and Jill Ker Conway who tells of her father's depression and death when a drought crushed their sheep farm in the Australian outback." Introduction by editor Phyllis Rose. Index 823 pp. ISBN: 0-393035328.