Women's work : an anthology of American literature

Contributor(s): Perkins, Barbara | Warhol, Robyn R | Perkins, George BMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1994Description: xviii, 1183 pISBN: 0070493642 (acidfree paper) ; 9780070493643Subject(s): American literature | WomenDDC classification: 810.809287 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
American Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Anne Bradstreet -- Mary Rowlandson -- Sarah Kemble Knight -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Abigail Adams -- Phillis Wheatley -- Susanna Haswell Rowson -- Catherine Maria Sedgwick -- Sojourner Truth -- Caroline Stansbury Kirkland -- Margaret Fuller -- Fanny Fern (Sarah Payson Willis) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Jacobs -- Susan Warner -- Alice Cary -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Emily Dickinson -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Louisa May Alcott -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Sarah Morgan -- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Kate Chopin -- Mary Noailles Murfree -- Grace Elizabeth King -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Sarah Pratt McLean Greene -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Twentieth Century Woman Writers -- Edith Wharton -- Mary Austin -- Willa Cather -- Ellen Glasgow -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Susan Glaspell -- Mary Antin -- Anzia Yezierska -- Elinor Wylie -- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Zora Neal Hurston -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Caroline Gordon -- Mari Sandoz -- Louise Bogan -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Lillian Hellman -- Eudora Welty -- Mary McCarthy -- Tillie Olsen -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Amy Clampitt -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Denise Levertov -- Flannery O' Connor -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Sexton -- Adrienne Rich -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Toni Morrison -- Sylvia Plath -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Bharati Mukherjee -- Louise Gluck -- Alice Walker -- Anne Beattie -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Rita Dove -- Amy Tan -- Louise Erdrich.
Summary: This anthology offers virtually the entire collection of literature by American women and is by far the widest ranging and most diverse. Arranged chronologically, it includes a broad range of selections including fiction, poetry, essays, diaries, letters, autobiographies, oratory, and journalism, spanning the colonial days to the present. These writers represent women's writing at its highest level of accomplishment.
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Includes Index.

American Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --
Anne Bradstreet --
Mary Rowlandson --
Sarah Kemble Knight --
Mercy Otis Warren --
Abigail Adams --
Phillis Wheatley --
Susanna Haswell Rowson --
Catherine Maria Sedgwick --
Sojourner Truth --
Caroline Stansbury Kirkland --
Margaret Fuller --
Fanny Fern (Sarah Payson Willis) --
Harriet Beecher Stowe --
Harriet Jacobs --
Susan Warner --
Alice Cary --
Rose Terry Cooke --
Emily Dickinson --
Rebecca Harding Davis --
Louisa May Alcott --
Constance Fenimore Woolson --
Sarah Morgan --
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins --
Sarah Orne Jewett --
Kate Chopin --
Mary Noailles Murfree --
Grace Elizabeth King --
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman --
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene --
Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
Twentieth Century Woman Writers --
Edith Wharton --
Mary Austin --
Willa Cather --
Ellen Glasgow --
Amy Lowell --
Gertrude Stein --
Susan Glaspell --
Mary Antin --
Anzia Yezierska --
Elinor Wylie --
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) --
Marianne Moore --
Katherine Anne Porter --
Zora Neal Hurston --
Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Caroline Gordon --
Mari Sandoz --
Louise Bogan --
Meridel Le Sueur --
Lillian Hellman --
Eudora Welty --
Mary McCarthy --
Tillie Olsen --
Gwendolyn Brooks --
Amy Clampitt --
Hisaye Yamamoto --
Denise Levertov --
Flannery O' Connor --
Maya Angelou --
Anne Sexton --
Adrienne Rich --
Lorraine Hansberry --
Toni Morrison --
Sylvia Plath --
Joyce Carol Oates --
Maxine Hong Kingston --
Bobbie Ann Mason --
Bharati Mukherjee --
Louise Gluck --
Alice Walker --
Anne Beattie --
Leslie Marmon Silko --
Rita Dove --
Amy Tan --
Louise Erdrich.

This anthology offers virtually the entire collection of literature by American women and is by far the widest ranging and most diverse. Arranged chronologically, it includes a broad range of selections including fiction, poetry, essays, diaries, letters, autobiographies, oratory, and journalism, spanning the colonial days to the present. These writers represent women's writing at its highest level of accomplishment.

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