JURY OF HER PEERS, A - AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS FROM ANNE BRADSTREET TO ANNIE PROULX

Elaine Showalter's A Jury of Her Peers covers the writings of American women from Anne Bradstreet, who published The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America in 1650, to Annie Proulx, as she reinvents the western for the 21st century. It's a delicious compendium, a book that belongs in literature courses, of course, but also in writerly libraries and in the hands of anyone who enjoys reading about writers' lives.