Preface
Louisa May Alcott
Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta
Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria Del Occidente)
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice Cary
Phoebe Cary
Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Cheseborough)
Lydia Maria Child
Kate Chopin
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley)
Rose Terry Cooke
Ina Donna Coolbrith
Anna Julia Cooper
Maria Susanna Cummins
Rebecca Harding Davis
Emily Dickinson
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Emma Embury
Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton)
Kate Field
Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson)
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Margaret Fuller
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Anna Katherine Green
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
Grace Greenwood (Sarah Jane Clarke Lippincott)
Angelina Grimké
Sarah Grimké
Sarah Josepha Hale
Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge)
Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune)
Frances E.W. Harper
Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz
Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife)
Mary Jane Hawes Holmes
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Julia Ward Howe
Helen Hunt Jackson
Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent)
Sarah Orne Jewett
Grace Elizabeth King
Caroline Kirkland
Lucy Larcom
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa)
Emma Lazarus
Maria Jane McIntosh
Adah Isaacs Menken
Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie)
Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Frances Sargent Osgood
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
E.D.E.N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevett Southworth)
Harriet Spofford
Ann Sophia Stephens
Maria Stewart
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Octave Thanet (Alice French)
Celia Laighton Thaxter
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Susan Warner
Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher
Sarah Helen Whitman
A.D.T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney)
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Harriet E. Wilson
Sally S. Wood
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Reviews the careers and contributions of more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
DENISE D. KNIGHT is Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English at the State University of New York, Cortland. She is the author of several books, including Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide (Greenwood, 2003), Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction (1997), and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1997), and coauthor of Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1993).
"Each well organized entry includes a biography of the author, a
discussion of her major works or themes, a survey of critical
studies, and a bibliography of works by and studies of the
author....[A]n excellent resource book that brings into context
writers who were previously excluded from the canon of literary
studies."-EDIS Bulletin
"This sourcebook will be invaluable to teachers of American
literature who wish to revise their syllabi and to encourage their
students to research women writers independently.... [T]his
book...should be considered a must for every school and public
library."-The Leaflet
?Each well organized entry includes a biography of the author, a
discussion of her major works or themes, a survey of critical
studies, and a bibliography of works by and studies of the
author....[A]n excellent resource book that brings into context
writers who were previously excluded from the canon of literary
studies.?-EDIS Bulletin
?High-school, public, and college libraries will find
Nineteenth-Century Women Writers a valuable resource. Though
material abounds on some of the included writers, information,
especially literary criticism, on many of the less well known women
can be difficult to find, ?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
?This sourcebook will be invaluable to teachers of American
literature who wish to revise their syllabi and to encourage their
students to research women writers independently.... [T]his
book...should be considered a must for every school and public
library.?-The Leaflet
?Until recently, the Western literary canon was dominated by male
authors, with only a few representative females. However, the canon
has recently undergone considerable discussion and revision, with
an eye to including non-European cultures and female voices. The
present book brings together representative US women writers whose
best-known works were written or published during the 19th century.
A variety of authors make up the 77 entries--children's authors,
novelists, poets, abolitionists, former slaves--and they provide an
understanding of women's issues of that day.... Highly recommended
for all public and academic libraries.?-Choice
"High-school, public, and college libraries will find
Nineteenth-Century Women Writers a valuable resource. Though
material abounds on some of the included writers, information,
especially literary criticism, on many of the less well known women
can be difficult to find,"-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"Until recently, the Western literary canon was dominated by male
authors, with only a few representative females. However, the canon
has recently undergone considerable discussion and revision, with
an eye to including non-European cultures and female voices. The
present book brings together representative US women writers whose
best-known works were written or published during the 19th century.
A variety of authors make up the 77 entries--children's authors,
novelists, poets, abolitionists, former slaves--and they provide an
understanding of women's issues of that day.... Highly recommended
for all public and academic libraries."-Choice
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