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Cynthia Griffin Wolff and Ann Lane, two biographers of women, will speak at the first of the Radcliffe Forum's Charlotte Perkins Gilman workshops on December 1.
Wolff, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, recently published her biography of Edith Wharton, and Lane, a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, has written a study of Mary Beard, the American historian.
"People are writing biographies differently today, looking at women as women," Delta White, assistant director of the Radcliffe Forum, said yesterday. "Authors are using biography as a vehicle for communicating the authentic female experience," she said.
The Gilman workshop series will deal with changes in society that the women's movement has caused, White said.
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