{"product_id":"the-actors-book-of-monologues-for-women-isbn-9780140157871","title":"The Actor's Book of Monologues for Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eA diverse collection of monologues featuring the voices of women through the ages \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, journals, and documents of public record, these selections, although not originally intended for theatrical or cinematic performances, offer unique dramatic opportunities for actors, speakers, students, or anyone interested in women’s studies.\u003cbr\u003e            Stefan Rudnicki has brought together selections from well-known as well as obscure authors, providing a tremendous range of women’s perspectives from a variety of sources: poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, and Sappho, among others; passages from Mary Shelley’s journal, the diaries of Anais Nin, and the memoirs of Isadora Duncan; polemics from Mary Wollstonecraft and Joan of Arc, as well as Susan B. Anthony’s “On Woman’s Right to Suffrage”; and selections from the novels of Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Ursula K. LeGuin, and others.General Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART I: WITNESS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Mirrors to Nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eLinda Hogan—From \u003ci\u003eWalking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAphra Behn—From \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Botham Howitt—\u003ci\u003eThe Sea Fowler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Moore Brooke—\u003ci\u003eTo the Chase, to the Chase!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Pfeiffer—\u003ci\u003eTo a Moth that Drinketh of the Ripe October\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Welsh Carlyle—\u003ci\u003eTo a Swallow Building Under Our Eaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson—\u003ci\u003eDear March—Come in\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClarissa Scott Delany—\u003ci\u003eSolace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Orne Jewett—From \u003ci\u003eA White Heron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoge Track—From \u003ci\u003eThe Clearing in the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Commentaries and Character Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eAnne Finch—\u003ci\u003eThe Atheist and the Acorn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Leicester—\u003ci\u003eThe Mock Hero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Trefusis—\u003ci\u003eThe Boy and Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarolyn Wells—\u003ci\u003eTo a Milkmaid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhoebe Cary—\u003ci\u003eWhen Lovely Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosephine Dodge Daskam Bacon—\u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Used Her Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Austen—From \u003ci\u003eSanditon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMrs. Johnson to Lady Susan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTabith Gilman Tenney—From \u003ci\u003eFemale Quixotism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain—From \u003ci\u003eEve's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton)—\u003ci\u003eAunt Hetty on Matrimony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Miriam Berry Whitcher—\u003ci\u003eHezekiah Bedott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate F. Ellis—\u003ci\u003eA Sunday Morning Interview\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Servant Girl Question\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Breakfast at the Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Post—\u003ci\u003eFad Followers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGloves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmoking Don'ts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEve Merriam—\u003ci\u003eTryst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaura Stanton—From \u003ci\u003eNijinsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhoda Lerman—From \u003ci\u003eThe Girl that He Marries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eGod's Ear\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Kahn—\u003ci\u003eThe Brie Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Journeys in History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eFanny Burney—\u003ci\u003ePursued by the King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLady Augusta Stanley—\u003ci\u003eThe Duke of Wellington's Funeral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueen Victoria in Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu—\u003ci\u003eOverlooking Constantinople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllen Terry—\u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning—\u003ci\u003eItaly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Hale—\u003ci\u003eTo Miss Mary B. Dinsmoor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvia Ashton-Warner—From \u003ci\u003eI Passed This Way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsadora Duncan—\u003ci\u003eD'Annunzio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFanny Kemble—From \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Frances Anne Butler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Ryan—From \u003ci\u003eOld Boston Museum Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBillie Burke—From \u003ci\u003eWith a Feather on My Nose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUmm Kulthum—From \u003ci\u003eThe Umm Kulthum Nobody Knows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Witnesses to War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Hill Morris—From her \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Sandwith Drinker—\u003ci\u003eA Day of Great Confusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Blazing Fleet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeborah Sampson Gannett—\u003ci\u003eAn Address Delivered at the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret E. Breckenridge—From \u003ci\u003eThe Princeton Standard, 1862\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEliza Frances Andrews—From \u003ci\u003eThe War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-65\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Adair—\u003ci\u003eFred Brown's Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. John Harris—From \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. A. H. Hoge—From \u003ci\u003eLadies' Address at the Packer Institute, Brooklyn, Spring, 1865\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Belle Reynolds—From her \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMay Sinclair—\u003ci\u003eField Ambulance in Retreat (Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnaïs Nin—\u003ci\u003eThe Grounded Aviator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiana Barnato Walker—\u003ci\u003eHolding the Line, Britain, 1939-1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIda Dobrzanska Kasprzak—\u003ci\u003eUprising, Poland, 1939-1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDellie Hahne—\u003ci\u003eForty Years Later\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLynn Bower—\u003ci\u003eTwilight Zone, Vietnam, 1965-72\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNellie Bianchi—\u003ci\u003eThe Kidnappings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaisy Zamora—\u003ci\u003eTrapped in the Cross-Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II: ACTOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Polemics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eQueen Hatshepsut—\u003ci\u003eMonument to Amun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan of Arc—\u003ci\u003eStatement\u003c\/i\u003es\u003cbr\u003eQueen Anne Boleyn—\u003ci\u003eDefiled Is My Name Full Sore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Askewe—\u003ci\u003eLike as the Armed Knight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueen Elizabeth I—\u003ci\u003eOh Fortune!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLady Mary Wortley Montagu—\u003ci\u003eThoughts on Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning—\u003ci\u003eAn Englishwoman's Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiss Wentworth—From \u003ci\u003eLife's Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Wollstonecraft—From \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria W. Stewart—From \u003ci\u003eWhat If I Am a Woman?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan B. Anthony—\u003ci\u003eOn Woman's Right to Suffrage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMerle Woo—\u003ci\u003eWhenever You're Cornered, the Only Way Out Is to Fight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Choices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eLoi Yau—\u003ci\u003eAn Agreement to Assist a Young Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Johnson—\u003ci\u003eAffidavit and Testimony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarjory Fleming—From \u003ci\u003eDaily Diary, 1810\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Hale—\u003ci\u003eSchool-Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Ryan—\u003ci\u003eThe Little Red Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelen Ward Brandreth—\u003ci\u003e\"I have determined to keep a journal...\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Mary Robinson—\u003ci\u003eA Propensity to Intoxication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Welsh Carlyle—\u003ci\u003eLetter to John Sterling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS.N. Hoisington—\u003ci\u003eWolves at the Door\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnette Lecleve Botkin—\u003ci\u003eAn Undependable Sort of Bird\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLavina Gates Chapman—\u003ci\u003eBlow the Building Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartha Martin—\u003ci\u003eThe Sea Otter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonna Redmond—\u003ci\u003eI'm Proud to Be a Hillbilly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoberta Victor—\u003ci\u003eHooker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarolyn Nearmyer—\u003ci\u003eFamily Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Gump—\u003ci\u003eSwords into Plowshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Jane Hodgson—\u003ci\u003eOn Probation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZahrah Muhammad—From \u003ci\u003eMy Life, An Extended Interview by Susan S. Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarmen Prado—\u003ci\u003eIf We Stay Together They Can't Hurt Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Friends, Lovers and Wives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eGareth Owen—\u003ci\u003eFriends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSei Shonagon—\u003ci\u003eOn Parting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeloise—\u003ci\u003eTo Abelard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAphra Behn—\u003ci\u003eIn Imitation of Horace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Tollet—\u003ci\u003eWinter Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirra Lokhvitskaya—\u003ci\u003eTsarina of the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdelaide Anne Procter—\u003ci\u003eA Woman's Question\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllen Mary Patrick Downing—\u003ci\u003eWere I but His Own Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous—\u003ci\u003eGrief of a Girl's Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Bradstreet—\u003ci\u003eA Letter to Her Husband\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLynne Yamaguchi Fletcher—\u003ci\u003eAfter Delivering Your Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhoda Lerman—From \u003ci\u003eEleanor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Shelley—\u003ci\u003eMy Beloved Shelley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLady Catherine Dyer—\u003ci\u003eEpitaph on the Monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti—\u003ci\u003eThe First Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Daughters, Sisters and Mothers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson—\u003ci\u003eFather Does Not Live with Us Now\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Afternoon That My Father Lived\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnonymous—\u003ci\u003eOral Testimony of a Former Slave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucille Clifton—From \u003ci\u003eGenerations: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Lee Walters—From \u003ci\u003eThe Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarian Yee—\u003ci\u003eWintermelons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKaren Dale Wolman—From \u003ci\u003eTelling Mom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate Douglas Wiggins and Nora Archibald Smith, Editors—From \u003ci\u003ePinafore Palace\u003cbr\u003eI had a little pony\u003cbr\u003eSix little mice sat down to spin\u003cbr\u003eBobby Shaftoe's gone to sea\u003cbr\u003eI'll tell you a story\u003cbr\u003eSolomon Grundy\u003cbr\u003eThree children sliding on the ice\u003cbr\u003eThe man in the wilderness asked me\u003cbr\u003eIf all the world were apple-pie\u003cbr\u003eI had a little nut tree\u003cbr\u003eIf you sneeze on Monday\u003cbr\u003eWhen the wind is in the east\u003cbr\u003eGirls and boys, come out to play\u003cbr\u003eHundreds of stars in the pretty sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti—\u003ci\u003eWho Has Seen the Wind?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbie Farwell Brown—\u003ci\u003eLearning to Play\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEliza Lee Follen—\u003ci\u003eThe New Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDinah Maria Mulock Craik—\u003ci\u003ePhilip, My King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMirra Lokhvitskaya—\u003ci\u003eMy Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Cannary Hickok—From \u003ci\u003eCalamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART III: DREAMER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Intimate Visions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueen Elizabeth I—\u003ci\u003eI Grieve and Dare Not Show My Discontent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrinda (Katherine Fowler Philips)—\u003ci\u003eOde Against Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti—\u003ci\u003ePassing and Glassing Echo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Brontë—\u003ci\u003eRemembrance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Kingsford—\u003ci\u003eThe Child on the Cliff\u003cbr\u003eThe Laboratory Underground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson—\u003ci\u003eGoing to Heaven!\u003cbr\u003eThere's Been a Death\u003cbr\u003eI Cannot Live with You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne—From \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Perkins Gilman—From \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Wallpaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Atwood—\u003ci\u003eA Night in the Royal Ontario Museum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGareth Owen—\u003ci\u003eThe Park\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSappho—\u003ci\u003eNo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre Louys—From\u003ci\u003e Chansons de Bilitis\u003cbr\u003eiii. Maternal Advice\u003cbr\u003evii. The Passer-by\u003cbr\u003exxix. The Pan-pipe\u003cbr\u003exci. Funeral Song\u003cbr\u003excii. Hymn to Astarte\u003cbr\u003exciii. Hymn to the Night\u003cbr\u003eThe Tomb of Bilitis: First Epitaph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Epics and Gothics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eSappho—\u003ci\u003eThe Homecoming of Hector and Andromache\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarie de France—From \u003ci\u003eThe Lay of Sir Launfal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLady Charlotte Elliot—\u003ci\u003eThe Wife of Loki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Darmesteter (A. Mary F. Robinson)—\u003ci\u003eA Ballad of Orleans, 1429\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEsperanza (Lady Wilde)—\u003ci\u003eA Wicked Spell\u003cbr\u003eA Woman's Curse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary C. G. Byron—\u003ci\u003eThe Fairy Thrall\u003cbr\u003eThe Tryst of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristina Rossetti—From \u003ci\u003eGoblin Market\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNazik al-Mala'ikah—From \u003ci\u003eThe Viper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnn Radcliffe—From \u003ci\u003eThe Romance of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Udolpho\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Gaskell—From \u003ci\u003eThe Old Nurse's Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanoe Falconer—\u003ci\u003eCecilia's Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary E. Braddon—From \u003ci\u003eThe Cold Embrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Brontë—From \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBram Stoker—\u003ci\u003eMina Murray's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert W. Chambers—\u003ci\u003eMary Read\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFredric Brown—\u003ci\u003eToo Far\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Revelations and Transformations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePhilo-Philippa—From \u003ci\u003eTo the Excellent Orinda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Killigrew—\u003ci\u003eOn a Picture Painted by Her Self...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillis Wheatley—\u003ci\u003eOn Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice Meynell—\u003ci\u003eThe Modern Poet: A Song of Derivations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Shelley—From the 1831 introduction to \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Melville—From \u003ci\u003eAne Godlie Dreame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Cox Jackson—From \u003ci\u003eGifts of Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLidiya Zinovyeva-Annibal—From \u003ci\u003eThe Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnaïs Nin—From \u003ci\u003eDiary, Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDahlia Ravikovitch—\u003ci\u003eTirzah and the Wide World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurugh Farrukhzad—\u003ci\u003eDivine Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Geary—From \u003ci\u003eStrange Toys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaniel Long—From \u003ci\u003eMalinche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarion Zimmer Bradley—From \u003ci\u003eThe Mists of Avalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrsula K. LeGuin—From \u003ci\u003eTehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZenna Henderson—From \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRhoda Lerman—\u003ci\u003eDawn Is Far Away\u003cbr\u003eThe Vestments He Wove\u003cbr\u003eA Spool of Golden Thread\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth Whitman—\u003ci\u003eJuly 4, 1846, at Fort Laramie\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 6, 1846, in the Desert\u003cbr\u003eMarch 15, 1847, by Alder Creek\u003cbr\u003eWhere Is the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson—\u003ci\u003eGo Thy Great Way!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStefan Rudnicki\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Krakow, Poland, and lived in Stockholm, Sweden, and Montreal, Canada, before arriving in the United States—where he was educated principally at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama.           \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to having directed number theatrical productions in New York, regional theatre, and abroad, he is also an actor, producer, award-winning playwright, photographer, and film and video director. 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