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301.451 AN58
I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.

305.420973 B885
In our time : memoir of a revolution / Susan Brownmiller

305.4889155092 M687
Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran / Azadeh Moaveni
Moaveni, Azadeh, 1976-

305.567092 T874G
Truthe, Sojourner, d. 1883
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a bondswoman of olden time : with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her "Book of Life" (1878)

323.092 W453
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931
The Memphis diary of Ida B. Wells / edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis.

324.623 ST792GO V. 3
The selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony / Ann D. Gordon, editor

335.0092 B496
Berger, Meta Schlichting, 1873-1944
A Milwaukee woman's life on the left : the autobiography of Meta Berger / edited by Kimberly Swanson

362.2983092 H945
Diary of a crack addict's wife / Cynthia D. Hunter

362.5 AD22
Twenty years at Hull-house / with autobiographical notes. With a foreword by Henry Steele Commager. Drawings by Norah Hamilton
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

610.924 N68M
Nightengale, Florence, 1820-1910
Letters of Florence Nightingale in the History of NursingArchive, Special Collections, Boston University Libraries / edited byLois A. Monteiro

813.2 SE4481
The power of her sympathy : the autobiography and journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick / edited and with an introduction by Mary Kelley
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867.

813.4 C541TOT
Chopin, Kate, 1851-1904
Kate Chopin's private papers / edited by Emily Toth and Per Seyersted.

818.403 W319
Waterston, Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy, 1812-1899
A woman's wit & whimsy : the 1833 diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy

823.912 C555
Agatha Christie : an autobiography / Agatha Christie
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

823.912 W91
A writer's diary : being extracts from the diary of Virgiinia Woolf / edited by Leonard Woolf
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

840.991 B381TE
All said and done / Simone de Beauvoir ; translated by PatrickO'Brian
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-

917.6225 M817
Coming of age in Mississippi / by Anne Moody
Moody, Anne, 1940-

929.2 V819
Virtuous lives : four Quaker sisters remember family life,abolitionism, and women's suffrage / Lucille Salitan, Eve Lewis Perera,editors

940.53 F845
Eine Frau in Berlin. English. Anonymous

940.5308992 J44R
Girl with two landscapes : the wartime diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945 / Lena Jedwab Rozenberg ; translated by Solon Beinfeld ; foreword by Irena Klepfisz ; introduction by Jan T. Gross
Rozenberg, Lena Jedwab, 1924-

940.5317 H535                            2000
The blessed abyss : inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck concentration camp for women / Nanda Herbermann ; translated by Hester Baer ; edited by Hester  aer and Elizabeth R. Baer.

940.5318 W651
Wiesel, Elie
Night

940.5318092 AD231
Adelsberger, Lucie, 1895-
Auschwitz : a doctor's story

940.5318092 B415
The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust / by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
Hahn-Beer, Edith, 1914-

940.5318092 G269
Gaulle-Anthonioz, Geneviève de.
The dawn of hope : a memoir of Ravensbruck

940.53477 P998
Pyskir, Maria Savchyn
Thousands of roads : a memoir of a young woman's life in the Ukrainian underground during and after World War II

940.53492 F82B
The diary of Anne Frank : the critical edition / prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation ; introduced by Harry Paape, Gerrold van der Stroom, and David Barnouw ; with a summary of the report by the State Forensic Science Laboratory of the Ministry of Justice ; compiled by H.J.J. Hardy ; edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold van der Stroom ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans and B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday
Frank, Anne, 1929-1945.

940.54771092 K76
One woman's World War II / Violet A. Kochendoerfer
Kochendoerfer, Violet A., 1912-

940.548141 C666
Love & war in London : a woman's diary, 1939-1942 / by Olivia Cockett ; edited by Robert Malcolmson
Cockett, Olivia, 1912-1998.

943.086 B58
Bielenberg, Christabel
Ride out the dark

943.70922 R893K
Rozmberka, Perchta z, 15th cent.
The letters of the Rozmberk sisters : noblewomen in fifteenth-century Bohemia

944.97 C27
Carles, Emilie, 1900-
A life of her own : a countrywoman in twentieth-century France

949.7024092 F48
Filipovic, Zlata
Zlata's diary : a child's life in Sarajevo

949.7103 F911
Friend, Melanie
No place like home : echoes from Kosovo

955.054 K82
Guest of the revolution / Kathryn Koob
Koob, Kathryn.

958.1046092 Z91
Zoya with John Follain and Rita Cristofari
Zoya's story : an Afghan woman's struggle for freedom

968.9104092 F965
Fuller, Alexandra, 1969-
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood

970.00497092 SI62
Mountain Wolf Woman, 1884-1960
Mountain Wolf Woman, sister of Crashing Thunder : the autobiography of a Winnebago Indian

973.04975 B826
Ohitika woman / Mary Brave Bird, with Richard Erdoes
Brave Bird, Mary.

973.50922 L67
Lewis, Nelly Custis, 1779-1852.
George Washington's beautiful Nelly : the letters of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794-1851 / edited by Patricia Brady

973.60924 B83
Brent, Linda, 1818-1896
Incidents in the life of a slave girl

973.7415092 T246
A Black woman's Civil War memoirs : reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volonteers [sic] / Susie King Taylor ; edited by Patricia W. Romero ; with a new introduction by Willie Lee Rose
Taylor, Susie King, b. 1848.

973.782 C52
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886
Mary Chesnut's Civil War / edited by C. Vann Woodward

973.782 M478G
A woman's Civil War : a diary, with reminiscences of the war, from March 1862 / Cornelia Peake McDonald ; edited and with an introduction by Minrose C. Gwin
McDonald, Cornelia Peake, 1822-1909.

973.782 N361M
Neblett, Elizabeth Scott
A rebel wife in Texas : the diary and letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864 / edited by Erika L. Murr

973.782 V434
The woman in battle : the Civil War narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazques, Cuban woman and Confederate soldier / with a new introduction by Jesse Alemán
Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, b. 1842.

973.782 W89
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886
The private Mary Chesnut : the unpublished Civil War diaries / [edited by] C. Vann Woodward, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld

973.8092 B915
Emma Spaulding Bryant : Civil War bride, carpetbagger's wife, ardent feminist : letters and diaries, 1860-1900 / edited with narrative by Ruth Douglas Currie

974.6702092 H442
Heaton, Hannah, 1721-1793
The world of Hannah Heaton : the diary of an eighteenth-century New England farm woman

975.8172061092 AN566R
Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840
Journal of a Georgia woman, 1870-1872

976.147 P252H
Parks, Rosa
Rosa Parks : my story / by Rosa Parks ; with Jim Haskins

976.147 R662
The Montgomery bus boycott and the women who started it : the memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson / edited, with a foreword, by David J. Garrow
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, 1912-

976.2 SE438B
The diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863 / edited with an introduction by Suzanne L. Bunkers
Seabury, Caroline, 1827-1893.

976.6052092 H496
Henderson, Caroline A. (Caroline Agnes), 1877-1966
Letters from the Dust Bowl / by Caroline Henderson ; edited by Alvin O. Turner

977.16303092 B477
Bentley, Anna Briggs, 1796-1890
American grit : a woman's letters from the Ohio frontier

978.02092 H558
Days on the road : crossing the plains in 1865 : the diary of Sarah Raymond Herndon / foreword by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
Herndon, Sarah Raymond, 1840-1914.

978.02092 M978
Murphy, Virginia Reed, b. 1834?
Across the plains in the Donner Party : a personal narrative of the overland trip to California, 1846-47

978.033092 H796
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, 1844?-1891
Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims

978.1415032 D994
Dyck, Mary Knackstedt
Waiting on the bounty : the Dust Bowl diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck / edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

978.202 Sa224
Sanford, Mollie Dorsey 1838 or 9-1915
Mollie : the journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado territories, 1857-1866

978.40924 L912
Low, Ann Marie, 1912-
Dust bowl diary

Bibliography by Donna Marconnet

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