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The Writer on her work

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Janet Sternburg
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W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 2000 - Fiction - 268 pages
Published to high praise--"groundbreaking . . . a landmark" (Poets and Writers)--this was the first anthology to celebrate the diversity of women who write.

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Review: The Writer on Her Work, Volume I

User Review  - Maria Marsello - Goodreads

Given this book when I graduated from High School by an important teacher. I still cherish it... Read full review

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User Review  - Bettina - Goodreads

Wonderful essays by women writers (suitable for co-ed reading, of course). My favorite essay, "Still Just Writing," is by one of my favorite authors, Anne Tyler, who aptly describes the challenges of ... Read full review

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Writer On Her Work
ww Norton isssued a special edition of THE WRITER ON HER WORK, volume one, ... THE WRITER ON HER WORK, Companion Volume II, New Essays in New Territory, ...
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JSTOR: Black Women Writers at Work.
... Janet Sternburg's obser- vation in The Writer on Her Work (1980) that "we have very little by women that intentionally and directly addresses the ...
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Janet Sternburg - Phantom Limb
Janet Sternburg is a poet and essayist, best known in the literary world for editing the classic two-volume set, The Writer on Her Work, long recognized as ...
www.janetsternburg.com/ author.asp

New & Noteworthy - New York Times
In 1980 Janet Sternburg published "The Writer on Her Work, Volume One," a collection of essays on how and why women write. Here the subject is the same, ...
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VG: Artist Biography: Bambara, Toni Cade
As she wrote in "What It is I'm Doing Anyhow," writing was "one of the ways [she] participate[d] in struggle" (The Writer on Her Work 154). ...
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Poetry Unplugged PAST SYLLABI
Be sure to buy VOLUME II of Janet Sternburg's The Writer On Her Work. 2), Concentrate on the following essays in the book: ...
www.marymount.k12.ny.us/ marynet/ StudentResources/ english/ ClassXII/ poetry_past.html

40954. Murray, Michele. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
As quoted in The Writer on Her Work, by Janet Sternburg (1980). From a journal entry dated January 8, 1961. The Columbia World of Quotations. ...
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Women's Review of Books, The: Twenty years after.
Looking back at The Writer on Her Work. In 1978, I went looking for a book. In conversations with other women writers, I'd become aware of a new desire to ...
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An illimitable field: a practice-based investigation into the ...
(1992) The Writer on Her Work Virago, London Glaister, L. (1999) "My life in writing: Lesley Glaister tells Sally Weale how she discovered 'suburban gothic" ...
goliath.ecnext.com/ coms2/ gi_0199-4316122/ An-illimitable-field-a-practice.html

ON SHIFTING GROUND: Self-narrative, feminist theory and writing ...
Woman: A Story of Two Lives (London: Virago, 1986), Janet Sternburg, ed., The Writer on Her Work. (New York: ww Norton, 1980). ...
researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ bitstream/ handle/ 10063/ 237/ thesis.pdf?sequence=1

About the author (2000)

Janet Sternburg , also the editor of The Writer on Her Work II , lives in Encino, California.

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