Women: Lives and Writings

Women: Lives and Writings

We are happy to offer this list of items focusing on the lives and the writings of women. The group spans a broad range of topics, and includes some very special items like Ardienne Rich's first two books, printed when she was ten and twelve years old; Sarah Orne Jewett's A Marsh Island, arguably the first gay American novel; a substantial personal archive of the travel writer Freya Stark; a letter from the 14 year old Helen Keller discussing her interest in Japanese philosophy; a collected printing of the what is considered the best Mexican women's journal of the first half of the 19th Century; the finely bound and deeply personal bible of Sophia Augusta Brown, bibliophile and wife of John Carter Brown; and a group of Carl Van Vechten portraits of women writers, artists, and cultural figures.