The Longman anthology of women's literature

Engendering Language, Silence, and Voice

/ Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

A Room of One's Own

/ Bell Hooks (1955-)

Talking Back

/ Leoba of England and Germany (700?-779)

Letter to Lord Boniface

/ Matilda, Queen of England (1080-1118)

Letter to Archbishop Anselm

Letter to Pope Pascal

/ Anne Lock (Fl. 1556-1590)

from A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, upon the 51 Psalm

/ Isabella Whitney (Fl. 1567-1573?)

The Author ... Maketh Her Will and Testament

from The Manner of Her Will

/ Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-1673)

The Poetess's Hasty Resolution

The Poetess's Petition

An Excuse for So Much Writ upon My Verses

Nature's Cook

from To All Writing Ladies

/ Anne Killigrew (1660-1685)

Upon the Saying that My Verses Were Made by Another

On a Picture Painted by Herself

/ Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)

The Introduction

A Nocturnal Reverie

Ardelia to Melancholy

Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia

The Answer

/ Frances (Fanny) Burney (1752-1840)

from The Diary of Frances Burney

/ Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)

from Letters for Literary Ladies

/ Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Northanger Abbey

/ Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Introduction to Frankenstein

/ Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Letter from Robert Southey

Letter to Robert Southey

Letter to George Henry Lewes

/ Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

[Alone I Sat; the Summer Day]

To Imagination

The Night Wind

R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida

[No Coward Soul is Mine]

Stanzas

/ George Eliot (1819-1880)

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

The Yellow Wallpaper

/ Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

A Journey

/ Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

from Patriarchal Poetry

/ Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

from Dust Tracks on a Road

/ Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

My Muse

A Dream of Comparison

Thoughts about the Person from Porlock

/ May Sarton (1912-1995)

Journey Toward Poetry

The Muse as Medusa

Of the Muse

/ Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-)

Seventeen Syllables

/ Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-)

No Name Woman

/ Gloria Anzaldua (1942-)

Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers

/ Alice Walker (1944-)

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

/ Medbh McGuckian (1950-)

To My Grandmother

from The Dressing Room

Turning the Moon into a Verb

/ Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)

Standing Female Nude

Litany

Mrs. Aesop

/ Gcina Mhlophe (1959-)

The Toilet

Sometimes When It Rains

The Dancer

Say No

/ Barbara Christian (1943-)

The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism

/ Elaine Showalter (1941-)

Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness

Writing Bodies/Bodies Writing

/ Helene Cixous (1937-)

The Laugh of the Medusa

/ Nancy Mairs (1943-)

Reading Houses, Writing Lives: The French Connection

/ Anonymous

The Wife's Lament (8th century?)

/ Anonymous

Wulf and Eadwacer (8th century?)

/ Margery Kempe (1373?-1438?)

from The Book of Margery Kempe

/ Margery Brews Paston (1457?-1495)

Letters to her Valentine/fiance

Letter to her husband, John Paston

/ Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

On Monsieur's Departure

When I was Fair and Young

/ Mary Wroth (1587?-1653?)

from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

/ Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

The Lucky Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain

/ Jane Barker (1652-1727)

A Virgin Life

/ Delarivier Manley (1663-1724)

from The New Atalantis

/ Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756)

from The Female Spectator

/ Harriet Jacobs (1813?-1897)

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

/ Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Monna Innominata

/ Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

from Ladies Almanack

To the Dogs

/ Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

from Fatal Interview

/ Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

The Abortion

In Celebration of My Uterus

For My Lover, Returning to His Wife

/ Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Love Poem

Chain

Restoration: A Memorial

9/18/91

/ Bharati Mukherjee (1938-)

A Wife's Story

/ Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1996)

My Man Bovanne

/ Sharon Olds (1942-)

That Year

The Language of the Brag

The Girl

Sex Without Love

/ Slavenka Drakulic (1949-)

Make-up and Other Crucial Questions

/ Joy Harjo (1951-)

Fire

Deer Ghost

City of Fire

Heartshed

/ Dionne Brand (1953-)

Madame Alaird's Breasts

/ Sandra Cisneros (1955-)

I the Woman

Love Poem #1

/ Jackie Kay (1961-)

Close Shave

Other Lovers

Intertextualities

Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays

Group Writing and Performance Exercise

/ Catherine Gallagher (1945-)

Who Was That Masked Woman? The Prostitute and the Playwright in the Comedies of Aphra Behn

/ Shari Benstock (1944-)

The Lesbian Other

Rethinking the Maternal

/ Susan Rubin Suleiman (1939-)

Writing and Motherhood

/ Patricia Hill Collins (1948-)

Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhood

/ Julian of Norwich (1343-1416)

from Showings

/ Juliana Berners (CA. 1486)

from The Book of Hunting

/ Dorothy Leigh (?-1616)

from The Mother's Blessing

/ Elizabeth Clinton, the Countess of Lincoln (1574?-?)

from The Countess of Lincoln's Nursery

/ Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

The Author to Her Book

Before the Birth of One of Her Children

In Reference to her Children, 23 June, 1656

/ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

To Lady Bute

/ Mary Barber (1690-1757)

Written for My Son, and Spoken by Him at His First Putting on Breeches

The Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C

/ Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)

The Glow-Worm

Verses Intended to Have Been Prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline, but then Suppressed

/ Mary Tighe (1772-1810)

Sonnet Addressed to My Mother

/ Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865)

Death of an Infant

The Last Word of the Dying

Dream of the Dead

/ Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

Casabianca

The Hebrew Mother

/ Grace Aguilar (1816-1847)

from The Exodus

Laws for the Mothers of Israel

/ Kate Chopin (1851-1904)

The Awakening

/ Tillie Olsen (1913-)

Tell Me a Riddle

/ Judith Wright (1915-)

Stillborn

Letter

/ Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-)

The mother

A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon

The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till

/ Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

The Disquieting Muses

Medusa

Nick and the Candlestick

Childless Woman

Edge

/ Lucille Clifton (1936-)

June 20

Daughters

Sarah's promise

Naomi watches as ruth sleeps

/ Bessie Head (1937-1986)

The Village Saint

/ Margaret Atwood (1939-)

Giving Birth

/ Rosellen Brown (1939-)

Good Housekeeping

/ Beth Brant (1941-)

A Long Story

/ Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-)

A Gift from Somewhere

/ Minnie Bruce Pratt (1944-)

Poem for My Sons

/ Keri Hulme (1947-)

One Whale, Singing

/ Rita Dove (1952-)

Demeter Mourning

Demeter, Waiting

Mother Love

/ Cherrie Moraga (1952-)

La Guera

For the Color of My Mother

/ Kate Daniels (1953-)

Genesis I:28

Love Pig

In My Office at Bennington

After Reading Reznikoff

Prayer for My Children

Oral History Project

/ Margit Stange (1949-)

Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening

/ Paula Gunn Allen (1939-)

Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism

Identity and Difference

/ Michelle Cliff (1946-)

If I Could Write This in Fire, I Would Write This in Fire

/ Trinh T. Minh-Ha (1952-)

Not You/Like You: Postcolonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference

/ Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621)

The Doleful Lay of Clorinda

/ Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)

From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

/ Katherine Philips (1632-1664)

To the Excellent Mrs. A.O. upon her Receiving the name of Lucasia, and Adoption into our Society

Friendship's Mysteries, to my Dearest Lucasia

On Rosania's Apostasy, and Lucasia's Friendship

Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda, Parting at a Fountain

/ Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1710)

from The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed, Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

/ Hannah More (1745-1833)

from The Black Slave Trade

/ Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, & c.

/ Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

from The Grasmere Journal

/ Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

from Woman in the Nineteenth Century

/ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Poem 258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)

Poem 280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,)

Poem 303 (The Soul selects her own Society

)

Poem 341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes

)

Poem 365 (Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?)

Poem 508 (I'm ceded

I've stopped being Theirs

)

Poem 512 (The Soul has Bandaged moments

)

Poem 709 (Publication

is the Auction)

Poem 754 (My Life had Stood

a Loaded Gun

)

Poem 1072 (Title divine

is mine!)

/ Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

I Sit and Sew

The Proletariat Speaks

/ Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938)

The Tree-Bound

/ Susan Glaspell (1882-1948)

Trifles

/ Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

The Fish

The Paper Nautilus

The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

In Distrust of Merits

Like a Bulwark

/ Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

The Doll's House

/ Eudora Welty (1909-)

Why I Live at the P.O.

/ Doris Lessing (1919-)

An Old Woman and Her Cat

/ Oodgeroo of the Tribe Noonuccal (1920-1993)

We Are Going

/ Anita Desai (1937-)

Surface Textures

/ Paula Gunn Allen (1939-)

Molly Brant, Iroquois Matron, Speaks

Taku Skansken

/ Angela Carter (1940-1992)

Wolf Alice

/ Buchi Emecheta (1944-)

A Cold Welcome

/ Jamaica Kincaid (1949-)

Xuela

/ Ingrid de Kok (1951-)

Our Sharpeville

Small Passing

Transfer

/ June Jordan (1936-)

The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley

/ Joanne Feit Diehl (1947-)

Selfish Desires: Dickinson's Poetic Ego and the Rites of Subjectivity

Resistance and Transformation

/ Adrienne Rich (1929-)

Notes toward a Politics of Location

Diving into the Wreck

from Inscriptions

Comrade

Movement

Origins

History

/ Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-)

Nkosi Sikelel'i Afrika (God Bless Africa)

/ Rachel Speght (1597?-1630?)

from A Muzzle for Melastomus

/ Mary Astell (1666-1731)

from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

/ Sarah Fyge (1670-1723)

The Liberty

/ Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

/ Mary Hays (1760-1843)

from Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women

/ Sojourner Truth (1797?-1883)

Ain't I a Woman?

Keeping the Thing Going While Things Are Stirring

/ Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

from Society in America

Citizenship of People of Color

Political Nonexistence of Women

/ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point

A Curse for a Nation

/ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)

The Slave Mother

Free Labor

An Appeal to My Country Women

Learning to Read

/ Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

Life in the Iron-Mills

/ Anzia Yezierska (1881?-1970)

Soap and Water

/ H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Eurydice

Oread

from The Walls Do Not Fall (I-IV)

/ Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Bubble of Air

from Letter to the Front (VII)

Kathe Kollwitz

Despisals

/ Nadine Gordimer (1923-)

Amnesty

/ Janet Frame (1924-)

The Chosen Image

/ Maya Angelou (1928-)

Still I Rise

/ Toni Morrison (1931-)

Recitatif

/ Caryl Churchill (1938-)

Vinegar Tom

/ Irena Klepfisz (1941-)

from Bashert

Death camp

Etlekhe verter oyf mame-loshn/A few words in the mother tongue

/ Eavan Boland (1944-)

Inscriptions

Writing in a Time of Violence

/ Zoe Wicomb (1948-)

Bowl Like Hole

/ Carolyn Forche (1950-)

The Colonel

Message

Ourselves or Nothing

The Garden Shukkei-en

The Testimony of Light

/ Louise Erdrich (1954-)

Fleur

Intertextualities

Topics for Discussion, Journals, and Essays

Group Research Assignment

/ Ann Parry (1949?-)

Sexual Exploitation and Freedom: Religion, Race, and Gender in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point"

/ Nell Irvin Painter (1942-)

"Ar'n't I a Woman?"

Old English and Middle English Literature

449-1485

Renaissance and Early Seventeenth-Century Literature

1485-1660

Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Literature

1660-1800

Nineteenth-Century Literature

1800-1900

Modernist Literature

1900-1945

Contemporary Literature

1945-2000.