TY - BOOK AB - Heilbrun "builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers of celebrated authors including Virginia Woolf, George Sand and Dorothy Sayers, she illustrates the struggle these writers undertook in both work and life to break away from traditional 'male' scripts for women's roles" -From back cover. AU - Heilbrun, Carolyn G., CN - CT3203 CN - CT3203 CY - New York : DA - 2008. ID - 466727 KW - Women KW - Biography as a literary form. KW - Autobiography KW - Women KW - Women and literature. N1 - Originally published: New York : Norton, 1988. N2 - Heilbrun "builds an eloquent argument demonstrating that writers conform all too often to society's expectations of what women should be like at the expense of the truth of the female experience. Drawing on the careers of celebrated authors including Virginia Woolf, George Sand and Dorothy Sayers, she illustrates the struggle these writers undertook in both work and life to break away from traditional 'male' scripts for women's roles" -From back cover. PB - W.W. Norton & Co., PP - New York : PY - 2008. SN - 9780393331646 (pbk.) SN - 0393331644 (pbk.) T1 - Writing a woman's life / TI - Writing a woman's life / ER -