What to Read After A Literature of Their Own
Readers who loved A Literature of Their Own by Elaine Showalter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where A Literature of Their Own is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after A Literature of Their Own
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"Sweat" (Women Writers (New Brunswick, N.J.).)
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Why We Read What We Read
Silences
How to Read and Why
A Change Is Gonna Come
Island beneath the sea
Desire and Domestic Fiction
The Common Reader
The Buried Mirror
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Very Great Profession
Women and Writing
Writing a Woman's Life
How to Read Novels Like a Professor
The Uses of Literature
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
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