Like the original Women of Words, this revised and expanded edition celebrates classics of literature by women from the last two centuries. Full-color portraits accompany poetic biographical introductions to each writer, followed by carefully chosen excerpts from each woman’s works. New to the pages of this elegant treasury are Nobel and Pulitzer prize winner Pearl S. Buck; contemporary Canadian author Margaret Atwood; Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston; prolific fiction writer and poet Joyce Carol Oates; poet and essayist Adrienne Rich; poet and diarist Sylvia Plath; 19th-century French writer and social activist George Sand; Victorian poet Christina Rossetti; Southern writer Carson McCullers; and 19th-century novelist Charlotte Brontë.