Article: Women Write: A Mosaic of Women's Voices in Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, and Essay.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

CAHILL, Susan, ed. Women write; a mosaic of women's voices in fiction, poetry, memoir, and essay. Penguin, New American Library. 314p. c2004, 0-451-21121-9. $14.00. SA

From Anne Bradstreet (b. 1612) to Andrea Lee (b. 1960), this collection includes the work of some 50 women who have written in English over four centuries. In selecting prose and poetry, treatises and short stories, letters and journal extracts, Susan Cahin has tried to choose pieces that reflect each writer's world, her insights, her vision. Thus Lady Montagu (b. 1689) tells her husband, "I think you use me very unkindly" while a child in "Christmas Night 1962" by Joyce Carol Oates "was sent ...

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