Revelations of Self

Five autobiographies (abridged and accompanied by notes and introduction) speak of women's experience in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The writers: Anna Cora Mowalt (playwright and actress), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (women's rights leader), Harriet Jacobs (escaped slave), Mary Antin (Russian Jewish immigrant), Margaret Sanger (founder of the birth control movement in the US). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR