Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - 1860–1935, American feminist and reformer, b. Hartford, Conn.; great-granddaughter of Lyman Beecher. Prominent as a lecturer and writer on the labor movement and feminism, she edited the Forerunner, a liberal journal. She wrote many works on social and economic problems, the most important of which is Women and Economics (1898, repr. 1970). Incurably ill, she Read More...

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The Yellow Wall-Paper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 62 pgs.

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A complete and accurate rendition of the 1892 Edition, with a New Note on the Text. The Yellow Wall-Paper is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure to remedy her 'nervous condition' -- which is actually postpartum depression. Though she longs to write, her husband and doctor forbid it, prescribing instead complete passivity. Locked in her bedroom, the heroine creates a reality of her own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper -- a pattern that has come to symbolise her own imprisonment. Narrated with superb psychological and dramatic precision, The Yellow Wall-Paper stands out not only for the imaginative authenticity with which it depicts one woman's descent into insanity; but also for the power of its testimony to the importance of freedom and self-empowerment for women.

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A Note on the Text

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Afterword

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With Her in Ourland: Sequel to Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Jo Deegan, R. Michael. 204 pgs.

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Introduction: Gilman's Sociological Journey from Herland to Ourland

1: The Return

2: War

3: A Journey of Inspection

4: Nearing Home

5: My Country

6: The Diagnosis

7: In Our Homes

8: More Diagnosis

9: [Democracy and Economics]

10: [Race and Religion]

11: [Feminism and the Woman's Movement]

12: [Conclusion]

Index
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Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918 (Chap. 2 "The 'New Woman' in Turn-of-the-Century Utopian Fiction: Bellamy's Equality and Gilman's 'A Woman's Utopia'")
by Francis Robert Shor. 224 pgs.

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Utopianism and radicalism achieve greater prominence when economic and social crises render the dominant moral and political universe open to question. The essays in this book examine how utopianism and radicalism informed the literary expressions, political discourse, communal experiments, and cultural projects in the U.S. from 1888 to 1918. In particular, these essays track how socialism, anarchism, syndicalism, feminism, and black nationalism contested the ideological terrain during a period when reform ideas and movements were beginning to reshape that terrain. The degree to which utopianism and radicalism were involved in that reformulation, either in its expanse or its constraint, is of prime interest throughout the book. Teachers and students interested in utopian studies, American studies, and the cultural/intellectual history of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era will find this book highly useful.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in American History

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: "A Better World's in Birth"

NOTES

Part I Utopianism and Radicalism in Literary Expressions

1 The Ideological Matrix of Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Bellamy's Looking Backward

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2 The "New Woman" in Turn-Of-The-Century Utopian Fiction: Bellamy's Equality And Gilman's "A Woman's Utopia"

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3 Racial Boundaries and "Hidden" African-American Utopias: Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and Hopkins's "Of One Blood"

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4 Socialism and Its Discontents: London's The Iron Heel and Reader Response

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Part II Utopianism and Radicalism in Political and Communal Projects

5 Journeying to Socialism: Utopian Communal Experiments in the 1890s

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6 Anarchist Utopianism in The Progressive Era

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7 Oppositional Utopianizing and The Political/Cultural Project: the Paterson And Star of Ethiopia Pageants

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8 From Socialist Colony to Socialist City: The Llano Del Rio Utopian Experiment In California

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Conclusion: The Dilemmas of Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America

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Selected Bibliography

Index
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Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature ("Herland" begins on p. 176)
by Chris Ferns. 268 pgs.

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Utopian societies exhibit a variety of ways of organizing the financial, political and emotional relationships between people. For all this diversity, however, one thing that exhibits far less variation is the story, the framing narrative that accounts for how the narrator reaches the more perfect society and obtains the opportunity to witness its distinctive excellences. Narrating Utopia is about that story, the curious hybrid of the traveler�2s tale and the classical dialogue that emerges in the Renaissance, but whose outlines remain clearly apparent even in some of the most recent utopian writing. "�5 a well-written and worthy addition to the filed of utopian studies."--SFRA Review

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Introduction

Dreams of Order

2: The Utopian Dream of Order: More and His Successors

3: Bellamy and Wells: the Dream of Order in the Modern World

4: Dystopia: the Dream as Nightmare

Dreams of Freedom

5: Libertarian Alternatives: Morris News from Nowhere; Bogdanov, Red Star; Huxley, Island

6: A World of One's Own: Separatist Utopias

7: Dreams of Freedom: Piercy, le Guin, and the Future of Utopia

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 (Chap. 5 "Herstory in Herland, History in Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Reconstruction of Gender and Language")
by Martha J. Cutter. 228 pgs.

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A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Problem of Voice in American culture, 1850-1930

2: American Women's Fiction, 1850-1880: Domestic Discourses in the Writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson

3: From the Law of the Father to the Law of the Feminine Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Anna Julia Cooper's Revisionary Voices

4: The Search for a Feminine Voice in the Works of Kate Chopin

5: Herstory in Hisland, History in Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Reconstruction of Gender and Language

6: The Politics of Hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy

7: Jessie Fauset's and Willa Cather's Metalinguistic, Ethnic Discourses

8: Coda Beyond the Binary?

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Revisiting the Concept of Community: An Examination of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Vision, in PJE. Peabody Journal of Education
by Jeanne M. Connell. 15 pgs.

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Utopia & Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism (Chap. 2 "The Imperial Ghetto")
by Thomas Peyser. 196 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction: Realism and Utopia, Nation and Globe

Part One: Dreams of Unity

1: The World a Department Store

2: The Imperial Ghetto

Part Two: Forms of Multiplicity

3: The Culture of Conversation

Notes

Index
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Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (Chap. 4 "Feminist Fiction and Feminist Economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Efficiency")
by Drucilla K. Barker, Edith Kuiper. 352 pgs.

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Feminist economists have demonstrated that questioning implicit assumptions about gender results in an economics that is less biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts. This rigorous and comprehensive book describes, analyzes and criticizes all of the main issues of feminist economics including: neoclassical economics, post-colonial theory and evolutionary economics.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

Notes

Part I: Rereading History

2: Into the Margin!

3: Hazel Kyrk and the Ethics of Consumption

4: Feminist Fiction and Feminist Economics

5: Beyond Markets

Part II: Science Stories and Feminist Economics

6: Some Implications of the Feminist Project in Economics for Empirical Methodology

7: Foregrounding Practices

8: After Objectivism Vs. Relativism

9: How Did “The Moral” Get Split from “The Economic”?

Part III: Constructing Masculine/Western Identity in Economics

10: The Construction of Masculine Identity in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

11: Social Classifications, Social Statistics, and the “Facts” of “Difference” in Economics

12: Reading Neoclassical Economics

13: The Anxious Identities We Inhabit

Part IV: Beyond Social Contract

14: Holding Hands at Midnight

15: Integrating Vulnerability

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16: An Evolutionary Approach to Feminist Economics

17: Domestic Labor and Gender Identity

Part V: Rethinking Categories

18: Empowering Work?

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19: Economic Marginalia

20: The Difficulty of a Feminist Economics

Index
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Reassessing Her Significance for Feminism and Social Economics, in Review of Social Economy
by Falguni Sheth, Robert E. Prasch. 13 pgs.

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Love and Economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on "The Woman Question," in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Cynthia J. Davis. 16 pgs.

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White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States (Chap. 6 "Eliminating Sex Distinctions from Civilization: The Feminist Theories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary Roberts Smith Coolidge")
by Louise Michele Newman. 262 pgs.

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Newman reinterprets an important moment in the history of the American women's movement. She traces the intellectual roots of the women's movement back to its beginnings, and reveals how it took on racial overtones. The study reveals that the white, middle-class women who were explicitly and implicitly influenced by the American offshoots of Darwin laid the intellectual groundwork for the social movements that followed.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction Woman's Rights, Race, and Imperialism

1: Evolution, Woman's Rights, and Civilizing Missions

2: The Making of a White Female Citizenry Suffragism, Antisuffragism, and Race

3: The Politics of Patriarchal Protection

4: A Feminist Explores Africa May French-Sheldon's Subversion of Patriarchal Protection

5: Assimilating Primitives

6: Eliminating Sex Distinctions from Civilization

7: Coming of Age, but Not in Samoa

Conclusion Coming to Terms

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition ("'Such a Hopeless Task before Her': Some Observations on the Fiction of Hawthorne and Gilman" begins on p. 250)
by John L. Idol Jr., Melinda M. Ponder. 324 pgs.

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A collection of essays offering a complex yet positive view of Hawthorne's attitudes toward women, this text examines the influence exerted by the women in Hawthorne's immediate family, and explores his links to a range of women writers.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Again and Again, The Scribbling Women

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Tireless Hawthorne Booster

The Chief Employ of Her Life: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Contribution to Her Husband's Career

Memories of Hawthorne: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's Auto/Biography

Margaret Fuller on Hawthorne: Formative Views by a Woman of the Nineteenth Century

Rappaccini's Garden And Emerson's Concord: Translating the Voice of Margaret Fuller

Stowe and Hawthorne

Discord in Concord: National Politics and Literary Neighbors

Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard's "Immortal Feather"

Annie Fields's Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary Russell Mitford: Hawthorne as the Best Living Writer Of Prose Fiction

Virgin Saint, Mother Saint: Hilda and Dorothea

Partly Sympathy and Partly Rebellion: Mary Ward, the Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne

Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis

Hawthorne, Jewett, and the Meditative Sublime

The Unfortunate Fall: Women and Genteel Poverty In the Fiction of Hawthorne and Freeman

Katharine Lee Bates: Hawthorne Student, Teacher, Critic, and Respondent

Cather and Hawthorne: Kindred Spirits

Demons of Wickedness, Angels of Delight: Hawthorne, Woolf, and the Child

Emily Dickinson's Pearls

Such a Hopeless Task Before Her: Some Observations on the Fiction of Hawthorne and Gilman

Bourgeois Sexuality and the Gothic Plot in Wharton and Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter as Pre-Text for Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"

Toward a Reader's History "Ghosts Might Enter Here"

Appendix

Selective Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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States of Perfect Freedom: Autobiography and American Political Thought (Chap. Six "Reforming: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Jane Addams")
by Philip Abbott. 212 pgs.

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Preface

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Hustling

Chapter Three: Redeeming Henry David Thoreau

Chapter Four: Judging

Chapter Five: Remembering

Chapter Six: Reforming

Chapter Seven: Conclusion

Notes

Index
14.

The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
by Catherine J. Golden, Joanna Schneider Zangrando. 240 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

What My Therapist, My Daughter, and Charlotte Taught Me While I Was Writing the Biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Economic Conundrum in the Lifewriting of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Letters Are like Morning Prayers: The Private Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

On Editing Gilman's Diaries

Historicizing Gilman: A Bibliographer's View

When the Songs Are over and Sung: Gilman's Childhood Writings and Writings for Children

Dreaming Always of Lovely Things Beyond: Living toward Herland, Experiential Foregrounding

Rewriting the West Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Owen Wister, and the Sexual Politics of Neurasthenia

Caging the Beast: The Radical Treatment for "Excessive Maleness" in Gilman's Fiction

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, and the Divided Heritage of American Literary Feminism

Paper Mates: The Sisterhood of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edith Summers Kelley

Overwriting Decadence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oscar Wilde, and the Feminization of Art in "The Yellow Wall-Paper"

[A] Kind of 'Debased Romanesque' with Delirium Tremens: Late-Victorian Wall Coverings and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper"

Reading Gilman in the Twenty-First Century

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Index
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)" begins on p. 160)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature ("Gilman, Charlotte Perkins" begins on p. 100)
by Kathy J. Whitson. 302 pgs.

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Many women writers have secured a solid place in the literary canon, while others have remained marginalized. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 70 women writers whose works are widely read in English, and on some 20 related topics. While some of the writers profiled are widely known, others have not yet received as much attention. And while most of the writers are from England and America, the volume also profiles Chilean, Brazilian, Indian, South African, Australian, French, and German authors. The writers selected are feminist, in that their works have challenged traditional gender roles, explored female oppression, or critiqued patriarchal social structures. In addition to providing biographical information, the entries include interpretative summaries of major works.

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