Rogers, Katharine M.

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ROGERS, Katharine M.

ROGERS, Katharine M. American, b. 1932. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor Emerita, 1989-, Brooklyn College, and Doctoral Faculty, City University of New York (Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, 1958-73; Professor of English, 1974-89). Publications: The Troublesome Helpmate: A History of Misogyny in Literature, 1966; William Wycherley, 1972; Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson, 1981; Feminism in Eighteenth Century England, 1982; Frances Burney: The World of "Female Difficulties," 1990; The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield, 1998; L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz, 2002. EDITOR: The Signet Classic Book of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drama, 1979; The Meridian Anthology of Early Women Writers, 1987; The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers, 1991; Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women, 1994. Address: 6202 Perthshire Ct, Bethesda, MD 20817-3348, U.S.A.

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