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Book SynopsisNineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century American women''s expression.
Trade Review"This anthology offers a fascinating selection of material which ought to enthuse the scholarly and general reader alike."
S. M. Grant, University of Newcastle-upon-TyneTable of ContentsSelected Contents by Genre.
Selected Contents by Theme.
Alphabetical List of Author.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Native American Myths.
Sampler Verses.
Mary Jemison (Degiwene’s) (Seneca) (1743-1833).
“Old Elizabeth” (1766-18??).
Eliza Leslie (1787-1858).
Catheraine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867).
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865).
Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871).
Sojourner Thruth (c. 1797-1883)/Frances Dana Gage (1808-1884).
Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864).
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880).
Betsey Chamberlain (dates Unkown) and The Lowell Offering Writers.
Lorenza Stevens Berbineau (c. 1806-1869).
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850).
Fanny Fern (sara Payton Willis Parton) (1811-1872).
Frances Sargent Osgoos (1811-1850).
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Alice Cary (1820-1871).
Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911).
Lucy Larcom (1824-1893).
Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892).
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
Susan Gilbert Dickinson (1830-1913).
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885).
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910).
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831?-1905).
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888).
Maria Amaparo Ruiz De Burton (1832-1895).
Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921).
Celia Thaxter (1835-1894).
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919).
Marietta Holley (“Josiah Allen’s Wife”) (1836-1926).
Catherine Owen (Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch) (?-1899).
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1844-1911).
Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (Paiute) (c. 1844-1891).
Mary Jallock Foote (847-1938).
Sarah Barnwell Elliott (1848-1928).
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887).
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909).
Kate Chopin (1851-1904).
Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930).
Grace King (1852-1932).
Lizette Woodorth Reese (1856-1935).
Kate Dougls Wiggin (1856-1923).
Anna Julia Cooper (c. 1858-1930).
Laura Jacobson (Dates unknown).
Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman (1860-1935).
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920).
E. Pauline Jonson (Tekhionwake) (Mohawk) (1861-1913).
Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862-?).
Ida Baker Wells-Barnett (1863-1905).
Kate McPhelim Cleary (1863-1905).
Sui Sin Far (edith Maud Eaton) (1865-1914).
Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934).
Sophia Alice Callahan (Creek) (1868-1894).
Martha Wolfenstein (1869-1905).
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935).
Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) (1875-1954).
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (Sioux) (1876-1938).
Maria Cristina Mena (1893-1965).
Index.
