State of Siege

Über

This anthology of excerpts from twentieth-century memoirs, journals, and autobiographies by women draws on a body of work that's exceptionally rich, perhaps the richest vein of women's literature. It aims dually to suggest that richness and the richness of female experience on which it is based. On my part, the book is the product of a lifelong and personal interest in women's autobiographical writing, an interest which had little material to feed on in my childhood but now is treated to a rich harvest.