I Never Told Anyone Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sex Abuse is a 1983 book edited by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton and marked Bass’s first published non-fiction work. It was published by Harper and Row and contains a collection of numerous child sexual abuse testimonials from a wide range of original source material including book excerpts, poems, and essays. The work was republished in 1991 through Harper Perennial and included a new afterword by Bass. The book’s title is a reference to some abuse survivors stating that they had never told anyone about their abuse due to various reasons such as threats of harm or that they did not think that they would be believed.