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Placing herself in the avid reader's chair, Linda Wagner-Martin writes about women's biography from George Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Mead, and even to Cher and Elizabeth Taylor. Along the way, she looks at dozens of other life stories, probing at the differences between biographies of men and women, prevailing stereotypes about women's lives and roles, questions about what is public and private, and the hazy margins between autobiography, biography, and other genres.

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Telling Women’s Lives is the first overview of the writing and the history of biographies about women

Telling Women’s Lives is the first overview of the writing and the history of biographies about women. It is a significant contribution to the reassessment of the work of the hundreds of women writers who have made a difference in our conception of what women’s stories-and women’s lives-have been, and are becoming. The book is a must read for anyone who loves reading biographies, particularly biographies of women.

Anyone will read women's biographies with a fresh eye after this. Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina

Anyone will read women's biographies with a fresh eye after this. -Choice "A compelling analysis of the power structures and unspoken personal investments that define biography as a genre and as a cultural institution. Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family, Sylvia Plath: A Biography, and other books.

Linda Wagner-Martin traces the origins of Plath's lifelong emotional . Throughout her life Plath felt herself pulled in opposing directions. Linda Wagner-Martin has brought to this biography a sense of the power, beauty, joy and anguish especially of Sylvia Plath's last great poems.

Linda Wagner-Martin traces the origins of Plath's lifelong emotional problems to the untimely death of her father and to the complex relationship that Plath and her mother developed. Ironically, Plath would find herself in a situation similar to her mother's when she separated from her husband, poet Ted Hughes, and faced the prospect of trying to launch her writing career while raising two young children.

Linda Wagner-Martin’s biography of Sylva Plath was published in 1987 . I do not remember this being the main reason for living for women in that time period. Enigmatic, brilliant, tragic. Linda Wagner-Martin presents a clear, engaging look at Plath's tragic life

Linda Wagner-Martin’s biography of Sylva Plath was published in 1987, many years before the new wave of Plath biographies. This is not the book for Plath aficionados who already know a great deal about Plath’s life and work. I must give Sylvia Plath another chance. Linda Wagner-Martin presents a clear, engaging look at Plath's tragic life. Had she been born two or three decades later, she wouldn't have been given electroshock treatments for depression. She would have been able to do something about her brute of a husband, and she'd probably be alive today.

Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she teaches modern and contemporary American literature, women's studies, and courses in biography and autobiography. Among her recent books are Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography (1994), The Modern American Novel (1989) and Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987).

You can read book Sylvia Plath: a Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin in our library for absolutely free. Returning to Aurelia’s home in Wellesley, they stored many of their books and, on September 9, left for Yaddo. Sylvia told her mother that she thought she was pregnant, but she felt good so she did not see a doctor to confirm her condition.

Linda Wagner-Martin (formerly Linda W. Wagner) Frank Borden and Barbara Lasater Hanes Professor of English The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . Telling Women's Lives, The New Biography.

Telling Women's Lives, The New Biography. Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family.