Library by Subject – Autobiographies

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Author, Last Author, First Title
Amrouche Fadhma A.M. My life story : the autobiography of a berber woman
Arenal Electa Untold sisters : hispanic nuns in their own works
Arpad Susan Sam curd’s diary : the diary of a true woman
Barnes Hazel E The story i tell myself : a venture in existentialist autobiography
Barrios de Chungara Domitila Let me speak! : testimony of domitila, a woman of the bolivian mines
Beauchamp Virginia Walcott A private war : letters and diaries of madge preston, 1862-1867
Beauvoir Simone de Memoirs of a dutiful daughter
Beauvoir Simone de The prime of life
Bem Sandra Lipsitz An unconventional family
Bennett Betty The letters of mary wollstonecraft shelley
Blouin Andree My country, africa : autobiography of the black pasionaria
Boggs Grace Lee Living for change : an autobiography
Boland Eavan Object lessons : the life of the woman and the poet in our time
Bowman Constance Slacks and calluses : our summer in a bomber factory
Brent Linda Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Brittain Vera Testament of youth
Brodzki Bella Life lines : theorizing women’s autobiography
Brooks Sara You may plow here : the narrative of sara brooks
Brown Elaine A taste of power : a black woman’s story
Brumgardt John R Civil war nurse : the diary and letters of hannah ropes
Buss Fran Leeper Dignity : lower income women tell of their lives and struggles : oral histories
Campbell Maria Halfbreed
Cheng Nien Life and death in shanghai
Chernin Kim In my mother’s house
Chernin Kim My life as a boy
Chicago Judy Through the flower : my struggle as a woman artist
Chown Alice A The stairway
Conway Jill Ker Written by herself : an anthology
Culley Margo A day at a time : the diary literature of american women from 1764 to the present
Dasilva Benedita Benedita da silva : an afro-brazilian woman’s story of politics and love
Deming Barbara We are all part of one another : a barbara deming reader
Dillard Annie An american childhood
Dillard Annie The writing life
Dobkin Marjorie Housepian The making of a feminist : early journals and letters of m. carey thomas
Durova Nadezhda The cavalry maiden : journals of a russian officer in the napoleonic wars
Duster Alfreda M Crusade for justice : the autobiography of ida b. wells
Edel Leon The diary of alice james
Ellis Anne The life of an ordinary woman
Elsasser Nan Las mujeres : conversations from a hispanic community
Ettinger Elzbieta Comrade and lover : rosa luxemburg’s letters to leo jogiches
Faber Inez McAlister Out here on soap creek : an autobiography
Ferrier Carole Point of departure : the autobiography of jean devanny
Flynn Elizabeth Gurley The rebel girl : an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926)
Ginns Patsy Moore Snowbird gravy and dishpan pie : mountain people recall
Giovanni Nikki Gemini: an extended autobiographical statement on my first twenty-five years of being a black poe
Glueckel of Hameln The memoirs of glückel of hameln
Goldman Emma Living my life
Guggenheim Peggy Out of this century : confessions of an art addict
Hasselstrom Linda Windbreak : a woman rancher on the northern plains
Hayslip Le Ly When heaven and earth changed places : a vietnamese woman’s journey from war to peace
Hewitt Leah D Autobiographical tightropes : simone de beauvoir, nathalie sarraute, marguerite duras, monique wittig, and maryse condé
Holtz William Dorothy thompson and rose wilder lane : forty years of friendship : letters, 1921-1960
Hong Lady Memoirs of a korean queen
Hong Xiao Market street : a chinese woman in harbin
Howard Jane A different woman
Hubbard Ruth The shape of red : insider/outsider reflections
Hull Gloria T Give us each day : the diary of alice dunbar-nelson
Hurston Zora Neale Dust tracks on a road
Ivinskaya Olga A captive of time
Jacobs Harriet Incidents in the life of a slave girl
Johnston Jill Mother bound
Jones Bessie For the ancestors : autobiographical memories
Jordan Teresa Riding the white horse home : a western family album
Kartini Raden Adjeng Letters of a javanese princess
Katz Jane B I am the fire of time : the voices of native american women
Kimball Nell Nell kimball; her life as an american madam, by herself
Klug Lilo Surviving the fire : mother courage & world war ii
Kollontai Alexandra The autobiography of a sexually emancipated communist woman
Kouwenhoven John When women look at men, an anthology
Kuzwayo Ellen Call me woman
Lamb May Wynne Life in alaska : the reminiscences of a kansas woman, 1916-1919
Lane Rose Wilder Travels with zenobia : paris to albania by model t ford : a journal
Lasser Carol Friends and sisters : letters between lucy stone and antoinette brown blackwell, 1846-93
Le Sueur Meridel Ripening : selected work, 1927-1980
Lifshin Lyn Ariadne’s thread : a collection of contemporary women’s journals
Lines Amelia Akehurst To raise myself a little : the diaries and letters of jennie, a georgia teacher, 1851-1886
Ling Ding I myself am a woman : selected writings of ding ling
Mahmoody Betty Not without with my daughter
Mairs Nancy Plaintext : essays
Mangione Jerre Mount allegro : a memoir of italian american life
Markham Beryl West with the night
Martin Claire In an iron glove : an autobiography
Mazumdar Shudha Memoirs of an indian woman
Merriam Eve Growing up female in america : ten lives
Millett Kate Flying
Mitchell Geoffrey The hard way up: the autobiography of hannah mitchell, suffragette and rebel
Moffat Mary Jane Revelations–diaries of women
Moody Anne Coming of age in mississippi
Morgan Robin Saturday’s child : a memoir
Morris Ivan As i crossed a bridge of dreams; recollections of a woman in eleventh-century japan
Niederman Sharon A quilt of words : women’s diaries, letters & original accounts of life in the southwest, 1860-1960
Niemi Judith Rivers running free : canoeing stories by adventurous women
Oggel L Terry The letters and notebooks of mary devlin booth
Olsen Tillie Mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mothers on mothering : a daybook and reader
Olsen Tillie Silences
Ping-ying Hsieh Autobiography of a chinese girl; a genuine autobiography
Qoyawayma Polingaysi No turning back; a true account of a hopi indian girl’s struggle to bridge the gap between the world of her people and the world of the white man
Red Shirt Delphine Bead on an anthill : a lakota childhood
Reich Alice Fraser haps and mishaps : the diary of mary e. cozens
Rosen Ruth The maimie papers
Sabina Gordon Phyllis b. steckler and the oryx press : a memoir
Sams Margaret Forbidden family
Sand George My life
Sand George Winter in majorca
Sanger Margaret Maragaret sanger
Scholinski Daphne The last time i wore a dress
Scomdoa Vijaya Raje The lat maharani of gwalior
Seifer Nancy Nobody speaks for me
Sewall Jane Jane, dear child
Sharistanian Janet Gender, ideology, and action
Simon Kate A wider world: portraits in an adolescence
Simon Katie Bronx primitive
Simpson Marita May sarton: a self-portrait
Sone Monica Nisei daughter
Stanley Liz The diaries of hannah cullwick, victorian maidservant
Stanton Domna C The female autobiography
Stanton Elizabeth Cady Eighty years & more: reminiscences 1815-1897
Stein Gertrude Lectures in america
Steinem Gloria Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
Stuhlman Gunther The diary of anais nin: vol 3 1939-1944
Stuhlman Gunther The diary of anais nin: vol 4 1944-1947
Stuhlman Gunther The diary of anais nin: vol. 1 1931-1934
Stuhlman Gunther The diary of anais nin: vol. 5 1947-1955
Stuhlman Gunther The diary of anais nin: vol. 7 1966-1974
Stulman Gunther The diary of anais nin: vol. 2 1934-1939
Tabor Pauline Pauline’s
Tillich Hannah From time to time
Toth Susan Allen Blooming : a small-town girlhood
Ullmann Liv Changing
Van Deurs Kady The notebooks that emma gave me
Vilar Irene A message from god in the atomic age
Walker Margaret How i wrote jubilee and other essays on life and literature
Weil Simone Formative writings, 1929-1941
Weinberg Sydney Stahl The world of our mothers : the lives of jewish immigrant women
Wilson Emily Herring Hope and dignity : older black women of the south
Wilson R Jackson The autobiography of benjamin franklin
Wisechild Louise M The obsidian mirror : an adult healing from incest
Woodward Mary Dodge The checkered years : a bonanza farm diary, 1884-88
Yates Gayle Graham Harriet martineau on women
Zailckas Koren Fury: a memoir