American Women¡¦s Literature
  Seventeenth-Century Women Writers
 

Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672).¡@From The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in New England (1650) and The Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Jeannine Hensley (1967): ¡§Epistle to the Reader by John Woodbridge,¡¨ together with introductory verses by Nathaniel Ward, John Rogers, and John Woodbridge (1650), ¡§The Prologue,¡¨ ¡§In Honour of Du Bartas,¡¨ ¡§In Honour of Queen Elizabeth,¡¨ ¡§Contemplations,¡¨ ¡§The Flesh and the Spirit,¡¨ ¡§The Author to Her Book,¡¨ ¡§Before the Birth of One of Her Children,¡¨ ¡§A Letter to Her Husband Absent upon Public Employment,¡¨ ¡§In Reference to Her Children,¡¨ ¡§In Memory of Anne Bradstreet,¡¨ ¡§To my Dear Children¡¨ (prefatory poems) and ¡§My Dear Children¡¨ (prose), ¡§Upon the Burning of Our House,¡¨ ¡§As Weary Pilgrim¡¨

  Rowlandson, Mary (1637?-1711?).¡@The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
   
  Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
 

Foster, Hannah (1758-1840).¡@The Coquette (1797)
  Rowson, Susanna (1762-1824).¡@Charlotte Temple (1791)
  Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784).¡@From Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) and The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Ed. Julian D. Mason, Jr. (1989): Prefatorical materials from the first edition, ¡§To Maecenas,¡¨ ¡§On Virtue,¡¨ ¡§To the University of Cambridge, in New-England,¡¨ ¡§On Being Brought from Africa to America,¡¨ ¡§On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770,¡¨ ¡§To a Clergyman on the Death of His Lady,¡¨ ¡§On the Death of J.C. an Infant¡¨; or ¡§A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. an Infant of Twelve Months,¡¨ ¡§On Recollection,¡¨ ¡§On Imagination,¡¨ ¡§To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty¡¦s Principal Secretary of State for North-America,¡¨ Letters to Thornton, Tanner, and Occom in The Poems in Phillis Wheatley
     
  Nineteenth-Century Fiction
 

Chopin, Kate.¡@The Awakening
 

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.¡@The Yellow Wallpaper
 

Harper, Frances E. W.¡@Iola Leroy
 

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.¡@Uncle Tom's Cabin
 

Wharton, Edith.¡@The House of Mirt
     
  Nineteenth-Century Poetry
 

Dickinson, Emily.¡@Selections from Poems of Emily Dickinson, 3 vol.,variorum ed. Thomas H. Johnson (1966), as represented in Selections from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, a supplement to The Heath Anthology of American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (1998). See also Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (1960).
 

Johnson, E. Pauline.¡@Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems of E. Pauline Johnson, ed. Watts-Dunton (9th ed., 1924)
     
  Twentieth-Century Fiction
 

Brooks, Gwendolyn.¡@Maud Martha
 

Cather, Willa.¡@O Pioneers
 

Dove, Mourning (Humishuma).¡@Cogewa, the Half-Breed
 

Erdrich, Louise.¡@Bingo Palace
 

Hurston, Zora Neale.¡@Their Eyes Were Watching God
 

Kingston, Maxine Hong.¡@The Woman Warrior
 

Larsen, Nella.¡@Passing
 

Morrison, Toni.¡@Beloved
 

Stein, Gertrude.¡@Three Lives
 

Viramontes, Helena Maria.¡@The Moths and Other Stories
 

Walker, Alice.¡@The Color Purple
 

Yamamoto, Hisaye.¡@Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
 

Yesierska, Anzia.¡@Bread Givers
     
  Twentieth-Century Poetry
 

Bishop, Elizabeth.¡@Selections from The Complete Poems, (1927-1979) (c. 1983): ¡§The Man Moth,¡¨ ¡§The Fish,¡¨ ¡§Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance,¡¨ ¡§At the Fishouses,¡¨ ¡§Arrival at Santos,¡¨ ¡§Questions of Travel,¡¨ ¡§Squatter¡¦s Children,¡¨ ¡§Filling Stations,¡¨ ¡§Visits to St. Elizabeths,¡¨ ¡§In the Waiting Room,¡¨ ¡§Crusoe in England,¡¨ ¡§One Art,¡¨ ¡§Geography III,¡¨ ¡§Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore,¡¨ North and South
 

H. D.(Hilda Doolittle).¡@From either Selected Poems by H. D. (1957); or Selected Poems (ed. Martz, 1988), or from the original volume Trilogy (ed. 1973), or Sea Garden (1916): ¡§Sea Rose,¡¨ ¡§Sea Violet,¡¨ ¡§Helen¡¨
 

Plath, Sylvia.¡@Selections from The Collected Poems, (ed. Hughes, 1981): ¡§Lady Lazarus,¡¨ ¡§Point Shirley,¡¨ ¡§Ariel,¡¨ ¡§Daddy,¡¨ ¡§Cut,¡¨ ¡§Fever 103o,¡¨ ¡§Tulips,¡¨ ¡§Lesbos,¡¨ ¡§Last Words,¡¨ ¡§In Plaster,¡¨ ¡§The Disquieting Muses,¡¨ ¡§Edge,¡¨ ¡§The Bee Meeting,¡¨ ¡§The Arrival of the Bee Box,¡¨ ¡§Stings,¡¨ ¡§The Swarm,¡¨ ¡§Wintering¡¨
 

Rich, Adrienne.¡@Selections from The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-84 (c. 1984), which includes poems from Diving into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972 ?(c. 1973) and The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977 (c. 1978): ¡§Culture and Anarchy,¡¨ ¡§Diving into the Wreck,¡¨ ¡§Jennifer¡¦s Tigers,¡¨ ¡§Living in Sin,¡¨ ¡§Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,¡¨ ¡§Face to Face,¡¨ ¡§Natural Resources,¡¨ ¡§Orion,¡¨ ¡§Planetarium,¡¨ ¡§To a Poet,¡¨ ¡§Toward the Solstice,¡¨ ¡§Transit,¡¨ ¡§Transcendental Etude¡¨
     
  Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Autobiography and Nonfiction
 

Jacobs, Harriet.¡@Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
 

Lorde, Audre.¡@Zami:¡@A New Spelling of My Name
 

Moraga, Cherrie.¡@Loving in the War Years
 

Required Critical Text: Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism.¡@Ed. Robyn Warhol and Diane Price Herndl.¡@Revised Ed.
   
  For Further Reading
Seventeenth-Century Women Writers
 

Aphra Behn (c. 1640-1689). Oroonoko:¡@ or, The Royal Slave (1688); The Rover (drama)
 

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).¡@Writings
 

Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la (1652-95).¡@A Sor Juana Anthology.? Trans. Alan Trueblood, 1991
     
  Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
 

Adams, Abigail (1744-1818).¡@The Book of Abigail and John:¡@Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784
 

Ashbridge, Elizabeth (1713-1755).¡@Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Written by Herself (1774)
 

Brewster, Martha (1710-post 1759).¡@Poems on Divers Subjects (1757)
 

Murray, Judith Sargent (1751-1820).¡@¡§On the Equality of the Sexes¡¨; ¡§Desultory Thoughts¡¨; ¡§Observations on Female Abilities¡¨; The Traveller Returned (drama); The Medium, or Virtue Triumphant (drama); ¡§The Story of Margaretta¡¨ from The Gleaner
 

Stockton, Annis Boudinot (1736-1801).¡@Selected poems from Only for the Eye of a Friend: The Poetry of Annis Boudinot Stockton (ed. Mulford, 1995)
 

Turell, Jane Coleman (1708-1735).¡@Some Memoirs of the Life and Death of Mrs. Jane Turell (1741)
 

Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814).¡@The Group (drama); Selections from the Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous (1790)
     
  Nineteenth-Century Fiction
 

Alcott, Louisa May.¡@Little Women; Behind a Mask; Work
 

Child, Lydia Maria.¡@Hobomok; Fact and Fiction (¡§The Quadroons,¡¨ ¡§Slavery¡¦s Pleasant Homes¡¨)
 

Davis, Rebecca Harding.¡@ Life in the Iron Mills
 

Evans, August.¡@St. Elmo
 

Freeman, Mary Wilkins.¡@Selected stories, including ¡§A New England Nun,¡¨ ¡§Old Woman Magoun,¡¨ ¡§A Moral Exigency,¡¨ and ¡§The Long Arm¡¨
 

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.¡@Herland
 

Harper, Frances E. W.¡@Selected poems
 

Hopkins, Pauline.¡@Contending Forces
 

Jewett, Sarah Orne.¡@Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories; Deephaven & Other Stories
 

Johnson, E. Pauline.¡@Moccasin Maker
 

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart.¡@The Silent Partner; The Story of Avis
 

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.¡@Hope Leslie
 

Wharton, Edith.¡@Custom of the Country; The Age of Innocence, "Summer"
 

Wilson, Harriet.¡@Our Nig
     
  Twentieth-Century Fiction
 

Allen, Paula Gunn.¡@The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
 

Atwood, Margaret.¡@Lady Oracle; The Edible Woman
 

Barnes, Djuna.¡@Nightwood
 

Butler, Octavia.¡@Kindred
 

Castillo, Ana.¡@The Mixquihuala Letters
 

Cather, Willa.¡@My Antonia; Song of the Lark
 

Chavez, Denise.¡@The Last of the Menu Girls
 

Cisneros, Sandra.¡@The House on Mango Street; Woman Hollering Creek and other Stories
 

Didion, Joan.¡@Play It As It Lays; or Slouching Toward Bethlehem
 

Erdrich,? Louise.¡@Love Medicine; Beet Queen; Tracks
 

Fauset, Jessie R.¡@There Is Confusion or Plum Bun
 

Glasgow, Ellen.¡@Barren Ground; The Sheltered Life; In This Our Life
 

Hagedon, Jessica.¡@Dogeaters
 

Head, Bessie.¡@A Question of Power
 

Hurston, Zora Neale.¡@Jonah's Gourd Vine
 

Jones, Gayl.¡@Corregidora; Healing
 

Kincaid, Jamaica.¡@ Annie John
 

Kogawa, Joy.¡@Obasan
 

Larsen, Nella.¡@Quicksand
 

Laurence, Margaret.¡@The Diviners
 

Le Sueur, Meridel.¡@Ripening;¡@Selected Works
 

Mansfield, Katherine.¡@The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
 

Marshall, Paule.¡@Brown Girl, Brownstones or Praisesong for the Widow
 

Morrison, Toni.¡@The Bluest Eye; Sula; Paradise
 

Mukherjee, Bharati.¡@Jasmine
 

O¡¦Connor, Flannery.¡@The Complete Stories
 

Olsen, Tillie.¡@Tell Me A Riddle
 

Paley, Grace.¡@Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
 

Petry, Ann.¡@The Street
 

Piercy, Marge Piercy.¡@Woman on the Edge of Time
 

Sarton, May.¡@Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
 

Shange, Ntozake.¡@Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo
 

Silko, Leslie.¡@Ceremony
 

Smedley, Agnes.¡@Daughter of Earth
 

Stein, GertrudeTender Buttons; or The Yale Gertrude Stein (1 volume version)
 

Welty, Eudora.¡@Selected short stories
 

Walker, Alice.¡@Meridian; The Temple of My Familiar
 

Williams, Sherley Anne.¡@Dessa Rose
     
  Twentieth-Century Poetry
 

Brooks, Gwendolyn.¡@Selected Poems (c. 1963); Family Pictures (c. 1970); Blacks (c. 1987)
 

Cervantes, Lorna Dee.¡@Emplumadas
 

Cisneros, Sandra.¡@My Wicked Wicked Ways
 

Clampitt, Amy.¡@The Kingfisher
 

Dove, Rita.¡@Thomas and Beulah
 

Fulton, Alice.¡@Powers of Congress
 

Giovanni, Nikki.¡@Black Feeling, Black Talk
 

Gluck, Louise.¡@Ararat
 

Graham, Jorie.¡@The End of Beauty
 

Harjo, Joy.¡@The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
 

Levertov, Denise.¡@Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960 (c. 1979)
 

Lorde, Audre.¡@Chosen Poems, Old and New
 

Miles, Josephine.¡@To All Appearances: New and Selected Poems
 

Moore, Marianne.¡@The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1967)
 

Mora, Pat.¡@Borders; Chants
 

Mullen, Harryette.¡@Muse and Drudge
 

Sanchez, Sonia.¡@I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
 

Sexton, Anne.¡@The Complete Poems (1981)
 

Smith, Stevie.¡@Collected¡@Poems (1975; ed. MacGibbon, 1983)
 

Song, Cathy.¡@Picture Bride
 

Stein, Gertrude.¡@Stanzas in Meditation
 

Swenson, May.¡@New and Selected Things Taking Place
 

Vigil, Evangelina.¡@Thirty an' Seen a Lot
     
  Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Autobiography and Nonfiction
 

Angelou, Angelou.¡@I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
 

Anzaldua, Gloria.¡@Borderlands/La Frontera:¡@The New Mestiza
 

Dickinson, Emily.¡@The Diary of Emily Dickinson (ed. And annotated by Jamie Fuller)
 

Fuller, Margaret.¡@Woman in the Nineteenth Century
 

Hellman, Lillian.¡@An Unfinished Woman
 

Howe, Susan.¡@My Emily Dickinson
 

Hurston, Zora Neale.¡@Dust Tracks on a Road; Mules and Men
 

Kincaid, Jamaica.¡@A Small Place
 

Nin, Anais.¡@The Diary (all volumes)
 

Olsen, Tillie.¡@Silences
 

Peabody, Elizabeth.¡@Conversations with Children on the Gospels (if available, it will be listed under Bronson Alcott)
 

Sarton, May.¡@Journal of A Solitude
 

Stein, Gertrude.¡@The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
 

Winnemuca, Sarah.¡@Life among the Paiute: Their Wrongs and Claims
 

Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin).¡@American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa: ¡§Impressions of an Indian Childhood,¡¨ ¡§The School-Days of an Indian Girl,¡¨ and ¡§An Indian Teacher among Indians¡¨
     
  Modern Drama
 

Chavez, Denise.¡@Novena Narrativas y O frendas Nuevo-Mexicanas
 

Churchill, Caryl.¡@Top Girls
 

Fornes, Maria Irena.¡@Mud and Other Plays
 

Hansberry, Lorraine.¡@A Raisin in the Sun
 

Hellman, Lillian.¡@Little Foxes; The Children¡¦s Hour
 

Moraga, Cherrie.¡@Giving Up the Ghost
 

Norman, Marsha.¡@Night Mother
 

Shange, Ntozake.¡@For Colored Girls Only
 

Yamauchi, Wakako.¡@And the Soul Shall Dance
     
  British Women¡¦s Literature
  Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
 

Kempe, Margery (c. 1373-c. 1438).¡@The Book of Margery Kempe.¡@Ed. S. B. Meech and H. E. Allen. Early English Text Society (autobiography)
 

Norwich, Julian of.¡@Revelations of Divine Love
   

 
  Renaissance and Restoration
 

Behn, Aphra.¡@Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave; The Rover (drama)
 

Cary, Elizabeth.¡@The Tragedie of Mariam, Faire Queene of Jewry
 

Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea.¡@Poems in Rogers anthology
 

Lanyer, Aemelia.¡@Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
 

Wroth, Lady Mary.¡@The Countess of Montgomerie¡¦s Urania and sonnets
     
  Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
 

Burney, Frances.¡@Evelina or The Wanderer
 

Lennox, Charlotte.¡@The Female Quixote
 

Manley, Delarivier.¡@The New Atalantis
 

Radcliffe, Ann.¡@The Italian
 

Scott, Sarah.¡@Millenium Hall or Sir George Ellison
 

Wheatley, Phillis.¡@Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
 

Wollstonecraft, Mary.¡@The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria and selections from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
     
  Nineteenth-Century
 

Austen, Jane.¡@Pride and Prejudice or Emma or Mansfield Park
 

Baillie, Joanna.¡@Count Basil or De Montfort
 

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth.¡@Aurora Leigh and ¡§The Cry of the Children,¡¨ ¡§To George Sand: A Desire,¡¨ ¡§To George Sand: A Recognition,¡¨ ¡§The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim¡¦s Point,¡¨ ¡§Sonnets from the Portuguese,¡¨ ¡§Mother and Poet¡¨
 

Bronte, Charlotte.¡@Jane Eyre or Villette
 

Bronte, Emily.¡@Wuthering Heights
 

Edgeworth, Maria.¡@Belinda or The Absentee
 

Eliot, George.¡@Middlemarch
 

Gaskell, Elizabeth.¡@North and South
 

Hemans, Felicia.¡@Siege of Valencia and ¡§Properzia Rossi¡¨; ¡§Casabianca,¡¨ ¡§The Homes of England,¡¨ ¡§Graves of a Household,¡¨ ¡§Evening Prayer, at a Girls¡¦ School,¡¨ ¡§Woman and Fame¡¨
 

Prince, Mary.¡@The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave
 

Rosetti, Christina.¡@¡§Goblin Market,¡¨ ¡§The Prince¡¦s Progress,¡¨ ¡§Song [When I am dead, my dearest],¡¨ ¡§In an Artist¡¦s Studio,¡¨ ¡§Up-Hill,¡¨ ¡§The Convent Threshold,¡¨ ¡§Remember,¡¨ ¡§Winter Rain,¡¨ ¡§My Dream,¡¨ ¡§Winter: My Secret,¡¨ ¡§A Better Resurrection,¡¨ ¡§The Lowest Room,¡¨ ¡§A Birthday¡¨
 

Shelley, Mary.¡@Frankenstein (1818 edition)
   

 
  Twentieth-Century
 

Brittain, Vera.¡@Testament of Youth
 

Carter, Angela.¡@Nights at the Circus and ¡§The Bloody Chamber¡¨
 

Emecheta, Buchi.¡@Second Class Citizen
 

Hall, Radclyffe.¡@Well of Loneliness
 

Lessing, Doris.¡@The Golden Notebook
 

Rhys, Jean.¡@Wide Sargasso Sea
 

Winterson, Jeanette.¡@Passion
 

Woolf, Virginia.¡@Mrs. Dalloway or To the Lighthouse; A Room of One¡¦s Own
     
  Recommended Theory and Criticism
 

Abraham, Julie.¡@¡§History as Explanation: Writing About Lesbian Writing, or ¡¥Are Girls Necessary?¡¦¡¨ in Left Politics and the Literary Profession.¡@Eds. Lennard J. Davis and M. Bella Mirabella (New York: Columbia UP, 1990): 254-83.
 

Barrett, Michele.¡@Women¡¦s Oppression Today, Ch. 1
 

Ballaster, Ros.¡@Seductive Fictions: Women¡¦s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740
 

Barratt, Alexandra.¡@¡§Introduction,¡¨ Women¡¦s Writing in Middle English
 

de Beauvoir, Simone.¡@The Second Sex (selections)
 

Bennett, Paula.¡@¡§Critical Clitoridectomy,¡¨¡@Signs (1992)
 

Butler, Judith.¡@¡§Subversive Bodily Acts¡¨ in Gender Trouble; ¡§Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of ¡¥Postmodernism¡¦¡¨ in Feminists Theorize the Political, ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott
 

Castle, Terry.¡@The Apparitional Lesbian
 

Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Ch. 5

 

Christian, Barbara.¡@¡§The Race for Theory¡¨
 

Ebert, Teresa.¡@Ludic Feminism and After, Chs. 1 and 2
 

Felski, Rita.¡@Beyond Feminist Aesthetics (selections)
 

Ferguson, Margaret, ed.¡@Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (with Maureen Quillian and Nancy Vickers, eds.)
 

Fraser, Nancy.¡@¡§What¡¦s Critical about Critical Theory?? The Case of Habermas and Gender¡¨ in Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory
 

Gallagher, Catherine.¡@Nobody¡¦s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820
 

Gilbert, Sandra, ed.¡@The Madwoman in the Attic (with Susan Gubar, ed.)
 

Gilligan, Carol.¡@¡§In a Different Voice: Women¡¦s Conceptions of Self and Morality,¡¨ in The Future of Difference¡@Eisenstein and Jardine, eds.
 

Hall, Catherine, ed.¡@Family Fortunes¡@(with Leonore Davidoff, ed.)
 

Haraway, Donna.¡@¡§A Manifesto for Cyborgs¡¨
 

Hobby, Elaine.¡@ Virtue of Necessity: English Women¡¦s Writing 1649-88
 

Irigaray, Luce.¡@The Sex Which Is Not One
 

Julia Kristeva.¡@Desire in Language, ch. 5 [the concept of the semiotic]
 

de Lauretis, Lauretis, ed.¡@Technologies of Gender, Ch. 1
 

Lewalksi, Barbara Kiefer.¡@Writing Women in Jacobean England
 

Minh-ha, Trinh.¡@Woman, Native, Other: Writing, Postcoloniality, and Feminism
 

Mirza, Heidi Safia, ed.¡@Black British Feminism, Introduction
 

Mellor, Anne, ed.¡@Romanticism and Gender
 

Mohanty, Chandra.¡@¡§Under Western Eyes¡¨
 

Moi, Toril.¡@ Sexual/Textual Politics
 

Spivak, Gayatri.¡@¡§Three Women¡¦s Texts¡¨; ¡§Can the Subaltern Speak¡¨ in Wedge 7 (1985)
 

Weedon, Chris.¡@Feminism and Postructuralist Theory
 

Wittig, Monique.¡@¡§One Is Not Born a Woman,¡¨¡@¡§The Straight Mind¡¨