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Introduction
1. The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
2. Author Introduction-Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
3. To My Dear and Loving Husband
4. The Author to Her Book
5. Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Some Publick Employment
6. Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666
7. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
8. Author Introduction-Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
Jenifer Kurtz
9. From Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
Elizabeth Ashbridge
10. Author Introduction-Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
11. From The Coquette
Hannah Webster Foster
12. Introduction-Women and the Cult of Domesticity
13. Author Introduction-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
14. Declaration of Sentiments from Seneca Falls Woman's Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
15. Author Introduction-Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820)
16. On the Equality of the Sexes
Judith Sargent Murray
17. Author Introduction-Alice Cary (1820-1871)
18. Uncle Christopher
Alice Cary
19. Author Introduction: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1886)
20. The Seamstress
Harriet Beecher Stowe
21. Trials of a Housekeeper
22. Author Introduction-Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811–1872)
23. The Tear of a Wife
Fanny Fern
24. Hints to Young Wives
25. Sober Husbands
26. Author Introduction: Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897)
27. From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
28. Author Introduction-Angelina Grimke (1805-1879)
29. From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
Angelina Grimke
30. Author Introduction-Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873)
31. The Condition of Women in the United States
Sarah Grimke
32. Author Introduction-Sojouner Truth (1797 - 1883)
33. Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth
34. Author Introduction-Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)
35. Indian Names
Lydia Sigourney
36. To a Shred of Linen
37. Author Introduction-Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
38. Life in the Iron Mills
Rebecca Harding Davis
39. The Manchester Marriage
Elizabeth Gaskell
40. Our Society at Cranford
41. Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Julia Howe
42. Author Introduction-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
43. The Brothers
Louisa May Alcott
44. Author Introduction: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930)
45. The Revolt of Mother
Mary Wilkins Freeman
46. Author Introduction: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
47. Miss Sydney's Flowers
Sarah Orne Jewett
48. The White Heron
49. Trifles
Susan Glaspell
50. Author Introduction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
51. The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
52. Author Introduction: Katherine Mansfield
53. Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield
54. A Golden Wedding
L.M. Montgomery
55. Author Introduction: Kate Chopin
56. At the 'Cadian Ball
Kate Chopin
57. The Storm
58. A Wagner Matinee
Willa Cather
59. Paul's Case: A Study in Temperament
60. The Garden
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
61. Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
Gertrude Stein
62. The Death of a Moth
Virginia Woolf
63. May Evening in Central Park
Amy Lowell
64. Author Introduction: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
65. First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
66. Second Fig
67. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
68. The Garden by Moonlight
69. Author Introduction: Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
Appendix
This book is a collection of texts in the public domain that were written by women.
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