The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English is a bio-bibliographical dictionary of women writers and women's writing in English published by Cambridge University Press in 1999 (ISBN 0-521-49525-3). It was edited by Lorna Sage, with Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter as advisory editors, and contains over 2,500 entries written by over 300 contributors.
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