Prose Pieces: Essays and Stories Sixteen Modern Writers
- ISBN-10
- 0394368886
- ISBN-13
- 9780394368887
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 609
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Authors
- Robert DiYanni, Pat C. Hoy
Description
And it is significant that of the four great women novelists — Jane Austen , Emily Brontë , Charlotte Brontë , and George Eliot - not one had a child , and two were unmarried . Yet , though it is clear that the ban upon writing had been ...
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