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The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

by Elaine Showalter (Editor)

Other authors: Louisa May Alcott (Contributor), Mary Austin (Contributor), Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor), Louise Bogan (Contributor), Anne Bradstreet (Contributor) — 75 more, Gwendolyn Brooks (Contributor), Alice Cary (Contributor), Phoebe Cary (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor), Lydia Maria Child (Contributor), Kate Chopin (Contributor), Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Contributor), Rose Terry Cooke (Contributor), Rebecca Harding Davis (Contributor), Emily Dickinson (Contributor), Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (Contributor), Sui Sin Far (Contributor), Fanny Fern (Contributor), Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Contributor), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Contributor), Margaret Fuller (Contributor), Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Contributor), Susan Glaspell (Contributor), H.D. (Contributor), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Contributor), Julia Ward Howe (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Helen Hunt Jackson (Contributor), Shirley Jackson (Contributor), Sarah Orne Jewett (Contributor), Grace King (Contributor), Maxine Hong Kingston (Contributor), Caroline Kirkland (Contributor), Jhumpa Lahiri (Contributor), Lucy Larcom (Contributor), Emma Lazarus (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Meridel Le Sueur (Contributor), Amy Lowell (Contributor), Maria Cristina Mena (Contributor), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Contributor), Marianne Moore (Contributor), Mary Noailles Murfree (Contributor), Judith Sargent Murray (Contributor), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (Contributor), Cynthia Ozick (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), Ann Petry (Contributor), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Contributor), Sarah Piatt (Contributor), Sylvia Plath (Contributor), Katherine Anne Porter (Contributor), Annie Proulx (Contributor), Adrienne Rich (Contributor), Mary Rowlandson (Contributor), Susanna Haswell Rowson (Contributor), Catherine Maria Sedgwick (Contributor), Anne Sexton (Contributor), Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Contributor), Tess Slesinger (Contributor), Anne Spencer (Contributor), Harriet Prescott Spofford (Contributor), Jean Stafford (Contributor), Gertrude Stein (Contributor), Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (Contributor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (Contributor), Genevieve Taggard (Contributor), Amy Tan (Contributor), James Tiptree Jr (Contributor), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Phillis Wheatley (Contributor), Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (Contributor), Constance Fenimore Woolson (Contributor), Elinor Wylie (Contributor), Hisaye Yamamoto (Contributor), Anzia Yezierska (Contributor), Zitkala-Sa (Contributor)

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An anthology of poetry and fiction by American women canvasses three hundred fifty years of writing to include the works of Puritan-era through contemporary authors.
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Showalter, ElaineEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Alcott, Louisa MayContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Austin, MaryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bishop, ElizabethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bogan, LouiseContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Bradstreet, AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Brooks, GwendolynContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cary, AliceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cary, PhoebeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cather, WillaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Child, Lydia MariaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chopin, KateContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp SmithContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cooke, Rose TerryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Davis, Rebecca HardingContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dickinson, EmilyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice MooreContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Far, Sui SinContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fern, FannyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fisher, Dorothy CanfieldContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Freeman, Mary E. WilkinsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fuller, MargaretContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Glaspell, SusanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
H.D.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Harper, Frances Ellen WatkinsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Howe, Julia WardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Hurston, Zora NealeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jackson, Helen HuntContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jackson, ShirleyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jewett, Sarah OrneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
King, GraceContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kingston, Maxine HongContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kirkland, CarolineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lahiri, JhumpaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Larcom, LucyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lazarus, EmmaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Le Guin, Ursula K.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Le Sueur, MeridelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lowell, AmyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mena, Maria CristinaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Millay, Edna St. VincentContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Moore, MarianneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Murfree, Mary NoaillesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Murray, Judith SargentContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
O'Connor, FlanneryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Oates, Joyce CarolContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Osgood, Frances Sargent LockeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ozick, CynthiaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Parker, DorothyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Petry, AnnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Phelps, Elizabeth StuartContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Piatt, SarahContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Plath, SylviaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Porter, Katherine AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Proulx, AnnieContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rich, AdrienneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rowlandson, MaryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rowson, Susanna HaswellContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sedgwick, Catherine MariaContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sexton, AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sigourney, Lydia HuntleyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Slesinger, TessContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Spencer, AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Spofford, Harriet PrescottContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stafford, JeanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stein, GertrudeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stoddard, Elizabeth DrewContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stowe, Harriet BeecherContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Taggard, GenevieveContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Tan, AmyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Tiptree Jr, JamesContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wharton, EdithContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wheatley, PhillisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Whitcher, Frances Miriam BerryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Woolson, Constance FenimoreContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wylie, ElinorContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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She Unnames Them [short story] by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Yellow Wallpaper [short fiction] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband {poem} by Anne Bradstreet
On Being Brought from Africa to America [short story] by Phillis Wheatley
The Angel over the Right Shoulder; or, The Beginning of a New Year by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
My contraband, or, The brothers {short story} by Louisa May Alcott
Circumstance by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
The Tenth of January, a tale of the Pemberton Mill by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
A White Heron: A Story of Maine by Sarah Orne Jewett
The Story of an Hour [short story] by Kate Chopin
At the 'Cadian Ball by Kate Chopin
The Storm by Kate Chopin
The valley of childish things, and other emblems by Edith Wharton
The Walking Woman by Mary Hunter Austin
Frustrate by Mary Austin
Paul's Case {story} by Willa Cather
Miss Furr And Miss Skeene by Gertrude Stein
A warrior's daughter by Zitkala-Ša
A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
Wild Peaches [poem] by Elinor Wylie
Poetry [poem] by Marianne Moore
Sweat by Cheryl A. Wall
The First Fig {poem} by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig {poem} by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed [poem] by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Big Blonde {story} by Dorothy Parker
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The Last Flight of Doctor Ain by James Jr. Tiptree
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Seventeen Syllables" Hisaye Yamamoto by King-Kok Cheung
Revelation by Flannery O'Connor
Two Kinds by Amy Tan
A Temporary Matter {story} by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Mother of Us All
  1. ANNE BRADSTREET (ca.1612–1672)
    • “The Prologue” (1650)
    • “The Author to Her Book” (1650)
    • “In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659” (1678)
    • “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” (1667)
    • “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (1678)
  2. MARY ROWLANDSON (1637–1711)
    • A Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
  3. JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY (1751–1820)
    • “Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms” (1784)
    • Lines from “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)
  4. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753–1784)
    • “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (1773)
  5. SUSANNAH HASWELL ROWSON (1762–1824)
    • From Charlotte Temple (1791):
      • Chapter VI: An Intriguing Teacher
      • Chapter XVIII: Reflections
  6. CATHERINE MARIA SEDGWICK (1789–1867)
    • “Cacoethes Scribendi” (1830)
  7. LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791–1865)
    • “Indian Names” (1849)
    • “Requests for Writing” from Letters of Life (1866)
  8. CAROLINE KIRKLAND (1801–1864)
    • Chapter XXVIII, from A New Home—Who’ll Follow? (1839)
  9. LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802–1880)
    • “The Church in the Wilderness” (1828)
  10. MARGARET FULLER (1810–1850)
    • From “Autobiographical Sketch” (1852)
  11. FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811–1850)
    • “He Bade Me Be Happy”(1849)
    • “Ah! Woman Still” (1850)
  12. FRANCES MIRIAM BERRY WHICHER (1811–1852)
    • “The Widow Essays Poetry” from The Widow Bedott Papers (1856)
  13. “FANNY FERN” (Sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811–1872)
    • Mrs. Stowe’sUncle Tom (1853)
  14. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811–1896)
    • “The Village Do–Nothing” from Oldtown Folks (1869)
  15. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1815–1852)
    • “The Angel Over the Right Shoulder, or, The Beginning of a New Year” (1852)
  16. LOUISA AMELIA SMITH CLAPPE (1819–1906)
    • Letter 19, from The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851–1852 (1922)
  17. JULIA WARD HOWE (1819–1910)
    • “The Heart’s Astronomy” from Passion-Flowers (1853)
    • “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1862)
  18. ALICE CARY (1820–1871)
    • “The Bridal Veil” (1866)
  19. ELIZABETH DREW STODDARD (1823–1902)
    • “The Poet’s Secret” (1860)
    • “Before the Mirror”(1860)
  20. PHOEBE CARY (1824–1871)
    • “Jacob”(1886)
    • “When Lovely Woman” (1886)
  21. LUCY LARCOM (1824–1893)
    • “A Loyal Woman’s No” (1863)
    • “Weaving” (1869)
  22. FRANCES E.W. HARPER (1825–1911)
    • “Aunt Chloe” (1872)
    • “Aunt Chloe’s Politics” (1872)
    • “Learning to Read” (1872)
    • “The Triumph of Freedom—A Dream” (1860)
  23. ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827–1892)
    • “Bluebeard’s Closet” (1861)
    • “Arachne” (1881)
    • “Odd Miss Todd” (1882)
  24. EMILY DICKINSON (1830–1886)
    • 138: “To fight aloud, is very brave -”
    • 269:“Wild nights – Wild nights!”
    • 339: “I like a look of Agony,”
  25. HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830–1885)
    • “The Prince’s Little Sweetheart” (1885)
  26. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831–1910)
    • “Marcia” (1876)
  27. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832–1888)
    • “My Contraband” (1863)
    • “Transcendental Wild Oats” (1873)
  28. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD (1835–1921)
    • “Circumstance” (1860)
  29. SARAH PIATT (1836–1919)
    • “The Palace-Burner” (1872)
    • “A New Thanksgiving” (1910)
  30. CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840–1894)
    • “Miss Grief” (1880)
    • “Rodham the Keeper” (1880)
  31. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD (1844–1911)
    • “The Tenth of January” (1868)
  32. EMMA LAZARUS (1849–1887)
    • “Echoes” (1880)
    • “The New Colossus” (1883)
  33. SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849–1909)
    • “A Circus at Denby” (1877)
    • “A White Heron” (1886)
  34. MARY NOAILLES MURFREE (Charles Egbert Craddock) (1850–1922)
    • “The ‘Harnt’ that Walks Chilhowee” (1884)
  35. KATE CHOPIN (1850–1904)
    • “The Story of an Hour” (1894)
    • “At the ’Cadian Ball” (1894)
    • “The Storm” (1898)
  36. MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852–1930)
    • “A New England Nun” (1891)
    • “Old Woman Magoun” (1909)
    • “Noblesse” (1914)
  37. GRACE KING (1852–1932)
    • “The Little Convent Girl” (1893)
  38. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935)
    • “The Yellow Wall-paper” (1892)
    • “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’” (1913)
  39. EDITH WHARTON (1862–1937)
    • “The Valley of Childish Things” (1896)
  40. SUI SIN FAR (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865–1914)
    • “The Inferior Woman” (1912)
  41. MARY AUSTIN (1868–1934)
    • “The Walking Woman” (1907)
    • “Frustrate” (1912)
  42. WILLA CATHER (1873–1947)
    • “Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament” (1905)
  43. AMY LOWELL (1874–1925)
    • “The Sisters” (1925)
  44. GERTRUDE STEIN (1874–1946)
    • “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” (1922)
  45. ALICE MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875–1935)
    • “A Carnival Jangle” (1895)
  46. ZITKALA-ŠA (1876–1938)
    • “A Warrior Daughter” (1902)
  47. SUSAN GLASPELL (1876–1948)
    • “A Jury of Her Peers” (1917)
  48. DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER (1879–1958)
    • “The Bedquilt” (1906)
  49. ANNE SPENCER (1882–1975)
    • “White Things” (1923)
    • “Letter to My Sister” (1927)
  50. ELINOR WYLIE (1885–1928)
    • “Wild Peaches” (1921)
    • “Anti-feminist Song, for My Sister” (1929)
  51. ANZIA YEZIERSKA (ca. 1885–1970)
    • “Wild Winter Love” (1927)
  52. HILDA DOOLITTLE (H.D.) (1886–1961)
    • “Oread” (1915)
    • “Eurydice” (1917)
  53. MARIANNE MOORE (1887–1972)
    • “Silence” (1924)
    • “Poetry” (1935)
  54. KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890–1980)
    • “The Circus” (1944)
  55. ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960)
    • “Sweat” (1926)
  56. EDNA ST.VINCENT MILLAY (1892–1950)
    • “First Fig” (1920)
    • “Second Fig”(1920)
    • “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” (1923)
  57. MARIA CRISTINA MENA (1893–1965)
    • “The Vine-Leaf” (1914)
  58. DOROTHY PARKER (1893–1967)
    • “Big Blonde” (1929)
  59. GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894–1948)
    • “Everyday Alchemy” (1922)
  60. LOUISE BOGAN (1897–1970)
    • “Women” (1923)
    • “Evening in the Sanitarium” (1941)
    • “Several Voices out of a Cloud” (1941)
  61. MERIDEL LE SUEUR (1900–1996)
    • “Annunciation” (1935)
  62. TESS SLESINGER (1905–1945)
    • “Missus Flinders” (1932)
  63. ANN PETRY (1908–1997)
    • “The Migraine Workers” (1967)
  64. ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911–1979)
    • “One Art” (1976)
  65. JEAN STAFFORD (1915–1979)
    • “The Echo and the Nemesis” (1950)
  66. JAMES TIPTREE, JR. (Alice Bradley Sheldon) (1915–1987)
    • “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain” (1969)
  67. SHIRLEY JACKSON (1916–1965)
    • “The Lottery” (1948)
  68. GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917–2000)
    • “The Rise of Maud Martha” (1955)
    • “The Bean Eaters”(1960)
    • “We Real Cool” (1960)
  69. HISAYE YAMAMOTO (1921–)
    • “Seventeen Syllables” (1949)
  70. FLANNERY O’CONNOR (1925–1964)
    • “Revelation” (1964)
  71. ANNE SEXTON (1928–1974)
    • “Her Kind” (1960)
    • “Housewife” (1962)
  72. CYNTHIA OZICK (1928–)
    • “We are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables” (1972)
  73. URSULA K. LE GUIN (1929–2018)
    • “She Unnames Them” (1985)
  74. ADRIENNE RICH (1929–2012)
    • “Power” (1978)
  75. SYLVIA PLATH (1932–1963)
    • “Stings” (1962)
    • “Wintering”(1962)
  76. ANNIE PROULX (1935–)
    • “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” (2000)
  77. JOYCE CAROL OATES (1938–)
    • “Golden Gloves” (1985)
  78. MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940–)
    • “On Discovery” (1980)
  79. AMY TAN (1952–)
    • “Two Kinds” (1989)
  80. JHUMPA LAHIRI (1967–)
    • “A Temporary Matter” (1998)
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