RT Web Page DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 714088696 LA English UL http://site.ebrary.com/id/10467589 T1 Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing : a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own A1 Jansen, Sharon L.,, PB Palgrave Macmillan PP New York YR 2011 SN 9780230118812 023011881X 9781349293148 1349293148 AB Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room even, or may be more ambitious, such as the dream of an entire country created for and inhabited exclusively by women. Sharon L. Jansen places these texts in conversation with one another, pairing them in ways that reveal the writers' distinctive voices even while they speak of the dream they share.