Download or read book A Bookshelf of Our Own written by and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an analysis of the fifty most important books by and about women from the Middle Ages to the present day, each book is placed within its historical context, tracing the life and influence of such authors as Toni Morrison, Edith Wharton, Grace Paley, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Wollstonecraft.