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About this book
Women have been writing in the Catholic tradition since early medieval times, yet no single volume has brought together critical evaluations of their works until now. The first reference of its kind, Catholic Women Writers provides entries on 64 Catholic women writers from around the world and across the centuries. Each of the entries is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography of the author; a critical discussion of her works, especially her Catholic and women's themes; an overview of her critical reception; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Authors writing in all genres, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, children's literature, and essays, are represented. The entries give special attention to the authors' use of Catholic themes, structures, traditions, culture, and spirituality. The writers surveyed range from Doctors of the Church to mystics and visionaries, to those who employ Catholic themes primarily in historical and cultural contexts, to those who critique the tradition. An introductory essay places the writers within the historical and literary contexts of women's writing in the Catholic tradition, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Margaret Mary Alacoque
- Julia Alvarez
- Angela of Foligno
- Katherine Burton
- Elizabeth Cary
- Madre Castillo
- Willa Cather
- Catherine of Genoa
- Catherine of Siena
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Sandra Cisneros
- Clare of Assisi
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
- Elizabeth Cullinan
- Dorothy Day
- Annie Dillard
- Louise Erdrich
- Rosario Ferré
- Lady Georgiana Fullerton
- Rumer Godden
- Caroline Gordon
- Mary Gordon
- Louise Imogen Guiney
- Madame Guyon
- Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti
- Emily Henrietta Hickey
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
- Marie de l'Incarnation
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Julian of Norwich
- Sheila Kaye-Smith
- Margery Kempe
- Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
- Mary Lavin
- Denise Levertov
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Mary McCarthy
- Rigoberta MenchĂș
- Alice Meynell
- Pilar MillĂĄn Astray
- Kathleen Norris
- Edna O'Brien
- Flannery O'Connor
- Eunice Odio
- Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
- Emilia Pardo BazĂĄn
- Christine de Pizan
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Adelaide Anne Procter
- Antonia Pulci
- Christina Rossetti
- Mary Anne Sadlier
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Valerie Sayers
- Sophie Rostopchine, Countess de Ségur
- Muriel Spark
- Edith Stein
- Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
- Teresa of Avila
- ThérÚse of Lisieux
- Sigrid Undset
- Simone Weil
- Antonia White
- Selected General Bibliography
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors