Recommended Reading

Compiled by Annie Cranstoun

Books by Carolyn G. Heilbrun:

When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

The Last Gift of Time: Life beyond Sixty. New York: Dial, 1997.

The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem. New York: Dial, 1995.

Hamlet's Mother and Other Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, 2002 (with a new preface by author).

Writing a Woman's Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988. Reprint. New York: Ballantine, 1989.

(Ed. with Margaret R. Higgonet) The Representation of Women in Fiction: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1981. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Reinventing Womanhood. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979. London: Victor Gallancz, 1979. Reprint. Norton Paperback, 1981.

(Ed.) Lady Ottoline's Album: Snapshots and Portraits of Her Famous Contemporaries (and of Herself) . New York: Knopf, 1976; London: Michael Joseph, 1977.

Toward a Recognition of Androgyny: Aspects of Male and Female in Literature. New York: Knopf, 1973. Published in England as Toward Androgyny. London: Victor Gallancz, 1973. Reprint. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1975. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.

Christopher Isherwood. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

The Garnett Family. New York: Macmillan, 1961; London: Allen and Unwin, 1961.

As Amanda Cross:

The Edge of Doom. New York: Ballantine, 2002.

Honest Doubt. New York: Ballantine, 2000.

The Puzzled Heart. New York: Ballantine, 1998.

The Collected Stories. New York: Ballantine, 1997.

An Imperfect Spy. New York: Ballantine, 1995.

The Players Come Again. New York: Random House, 1990.

A Trap for Fools. New York: Dutton, 1989.

No Word from Winifred. New York: Dutton, 1986.

Sweet Death, Kind Death. New York: Dutton, 1984.

Death in a Tenured Position. New York: Dutton, 1981.

The Question of Max. New York: Knopf, 1976.

The Theban Mysteries. New York: Knopf, 1971.

Poetic Justice. New York: Knopf, 1970.

The James Joyce Murder. New York: Macmillan, 1967.

In the Last Analysis. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

Other Works by Carolyn G. Heilbrun:

"Taking a U-Turn: The Aging Woman as Explorer of New Territory." Women's Review of Books 20, no. 10-11 (July 2003).

"The New Female Detective." Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 14, no 2 (2002): 419-428.

"Introduction". Moonstone. By Wilkie Collins. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

"Contemporary Memoirs." The American Scholar 68, no. 3 (summer 1999): 35-42.

"A Life of Heroism." Women's Review of Books 14, no. 9 (June 1997): 1-3.

"The May Sarton I Have Known." In Essays and Speeches from the National Conference "May Sarton at 80: A Celebration of Her Life and Works. " Ed. Constance Hunting. Orono, Me.: Puckerbrush Press, 1994.

"Is Biography Fiction?" Soundings 76, no. 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1993): 295-304.

"Silence and Women's Voices." Women's Voices. Eds. Lorna Duphiney Edmundson, Judith P. Saunders and Ellen S. Silber. Littleton, MA: Copley, 1987. 4-12.

"Women, Jews, and Nazism." The Yale Review 77, no. 1 (December 1987): 69-78.

"A Framework of Steel." Kenyon Review 7, no. 2 (1985): 127-130.

"Woolf and Androgyny." Critical Essays on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Morris Beja. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985. 73-84.

"Feminist Criticism in Departments of Literature." Academe 69, no. 5 (September-October 1983): 11-14.

"Dorothy L. Sayers: Biography Between the Lines." The American Scholar 51, no. 4 (autumn 1982): 552-561. Rpt. In Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration. New York: Walker and Co., 1993.

"Marriage Perceived: English Literature, 1873-1941." What Manner of Woman: Essays on English and American Life and Literature. Ed. Marlene Springer. New York: New York University Press, 1977. 160-184.

"The Androgynous Vision in To the Lighthouse." Essays on Virginia Woolf. Ed. T. Lewis. Scarborough: McGraw, 1975. 73-78.

"The Bloomsbury Group." Midway 9, no. 2 (1968): 71-85.

Carolyn Heilbrun's papers are collected at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Works about Carolyn G. Heilbrun:

Berkley, Miriam. "Carolyn Heilbrun/Amanda Cross." Publishers Weekly, 14 April 1989, 47-8.

Boken, Julia B. Carolyn G. Heilbrun. TUSAS 672. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Butler, Rebecca R. "Amanda Cross, Carolyn G. Heilbrun." Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction (1988): 425-30.

Carter, Steven R. "Amanda Cross." In Ten Women of Mystery. Ed. Earl F. Bargannier. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press, 1981.

Coale, Samuel. "Heilbrun at the Crossroads: The Feminist Web." In The Mystery of Mysteries: Cultural Differences and Designs. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 2000.

Cooper-Clark, Diana. "Interview with Amanda Cross." Designs of Darkness: Interviews with Detective Novelists. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1983. 187-202.

Dever, Carolyn. "The Feminist Abject: Death and the Constitution of Theory." Studies in the Novel 32, no. 2 (summer 2000): 185-206.

The Feminist Legacy of Carolyn Heilbrun. Special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 24:2 (2005).

Kress, Susan. Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2006.

Lussier, Mark and Peggy McCormack. "Heilbrun: An Interview." New Orleans Review 13, no. 3 (1986): 65-73.

Manos, Nikki Lee. "Heilbrun's Apologia." Belles Lettres 6, no. 3 (spring 1991): 23.

Matthews, Anne. "Rage in a Tenured Position." New York Times, 8 November 1992, 47, 72-73, 75, 83.

McCarthy, Abigail. "Alternate Destinies and Imagined Identities." Washington Post Book World 18, no. 45 (6 November 1988): 5-6.

Purcell, J. M. "The 'Amanda Cross' Case: Sociologizing the U.S. Academic Mystery." Armchair Detective (Winter 1980): 36-40.

Steinem, Gloria. "Dearest Carolyn." Ms. Winter 2003.

Works about Life Writing and Women's Lives:

Ashley, Kathleen, Leigh Gilmore and Gerald Peters, eds. Autobiography and Postmodernism. Amherst: Univserity of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

Benstock, Shari, ed. The Private Self. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Brodzki, Bella, and Celeste Schenck, eds. Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Culley, Margo, ed. American Women's Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

Gilmore, Leigh. Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

---. The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Lionnet, Françoise. Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Miller, Nancy K. But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Rodriguez, Barbara. Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

---. Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson, eds. Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Stanley, Liz. The auto/biographical I: the theory and practice of feminist auto/biography. Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1992.

Stanton, Domna. The Female Autograph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

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