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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 |
