Essays discuss American literature, feminist poetics, Black and Lesbian feminist criticism, and women's writing
Carolyn G. Heilbrun Books
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was an American academic and prolific feminist author, engaging in both significant academic studies and popular mystery novels under the pseudonym Amanda Cross. Her scholarly work specialized in British modern literature, with a particular interest in the Bloomsbury Group. Through her writings, she explored the lives and works of women to illuminate their experiences and intellectual contributions. Heilbrun aimed to rediscover and re-evaluate the literary voices of women who had been historically overlooked or marginalized.
The Last Gift of Time
- 225 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The feminist writer and author of the Amanda Cross mystery series looks back on a youthful pledge to commit suicide at seventy, explaining why, given that her sixties have been her happiest decade, she decided not to take her life
Kate Fansler - 13: Honest Doubt
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Professor Charles Haycock is dead from a hearty dose of his own heart medication. The mystery is not why Haycock was murdered-very few could stomach the woman-hating prof?but who did the deed. Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, a private investigator hired to find the killer, naturally enlists the help of that indefatigable amateur sleuth, Kate Fansler. Together, they start to pull at the loose ends of the very tangled Clifton College English Department. The list of suspects is longer than the freshman survey reading list. And as the women defuse the host of literary landmines set out for them, Woody suspects they?re only scratching the surface of a very large and sinister plot. . . .