NOTE: Table of Contents is tentative and subject to change. Alice James (1848-1892). from The Diary of Alice James. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887). The New Colossus. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). Tom''s Husband. A White Heron.
Kate Chopin (1850-1904). The Story of an Hour. The Awakening. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930). The Revolt Of Mother. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935). The Yellow Wallpaper.
Closed Doors. The Real Religion. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907). The Other Side of the Mirror. Marriage. Companionship. Edith Wharton (1862-1937). The Other Two.
Her Son. Mary Austin (1868-1934). The Basket Woman. The Stream That Ran Away. The Coyote-Spirit and the Weaving Woman. Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946). Two Hanged Women. Amy Lowell (1874-1925).
The Letter. Summer Rain. After a Storm. The Sisters. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). The Furr and Miss Skeene. Gentle Lena. Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935).
I Sit and Sew. The Goodness of St. Rocque. Zora Neale Hurston (1881-1960). Gilded Six Bits. Sweat. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). fromA Room of One''s Own; Shakespeare''s Sister.
The Mark on the Wall. Susan Glaspell (1882-1948). Trifles. Mina Loy (1882-1966). Moreover, The Moon. Lunar Baedeker. Anne Spencer (1882-1975). Substitution.
Lady, Lady. Anna Wickham (1884-1947). The Affinity. Divorce. Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970). My Own People from Hungry Hearts. America and I. H.
D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961). Sea Rose. Oread. Helen. Marianne Moore (1887-1972). Poetry. When I Buy Flowers.
Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). Bliss. The Garden-Party. Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966). In Memory of M.B.
Redwinged Birds. The Guest. Miriam Raskin (1889-1973). At a Picnic. Jean Rhys (1890-1979). from Wide Sargasso Sea. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950).
I, Being Born a Women. Apostrophe to Man. The Snow Storm. I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines. Untitled Sonnet I. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967). Indian Summer. The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk.
Marita Bonner (1899-1971). On Being YoungA WomanAnd Colored. Meridel Le Seur (1900-1996). from Salute to Spring: A Hungry Intellectual. The Girl. Stevie Smith (1902-1971). Not Waving but Drowning. The New Age.
Sylvia Regan (1908- ). Morning Star. Under a Painted Smile. We''ll Bring the Rue de la Paix. Eudora Welty (1909- ). A Worn Path. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The Fish.
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore. May Sarton (1912-1995). The Muse as Medusa. Der Abschied. Mary Lavin (1912-1996). The Nun''s Mother. Tillie Olsen (1912- ). I Stand Here Ironing.
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980). Study in a Late Subway. Eccentric Motion. To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century. Ruth Stone (1915- ). Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry. Margaret Walker (1915- ). For My People.
Chicago. Southern Song. Judith Wright (1915- ). The Sisters. To Another Housewife. Naked Girl in the Mirror. Counting in Sevens. Lili Berger (1916- ).
On Saint Katherine''s Day. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- ). Five Men Against the Theme "My Name is Red Hot. Yo Name Ain Doodley Squat." Friend. The Mother. Mary Tallmountain (1918-1994). The Last Wolf.
The Ivory Dog for My Sister. There is No Word For Goodbye. May Swenson (1919-1989). Sleeping with Boa. View to the North. How to Be Old. Doris Lessing (1919- ). To Room Nineteen.
Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ). Seventeen Syllables. Grace Paley (1922- ). Enormous Changes at the Last Minute. Denise Levertov (1923-1997). The Ache of Marriage. Divorcing. Bedtime.
Nadine Gordimer (1923- ). Town and Country Lovers. Jane Cooper (1924- ). Rent. Flannery O''Connor (1925-1964). Good Country People. Carolyn Kizer (1925- ). The Intruder.
A Window in Wintertime. Thrall. Maxine Kumin (1925- ). Regret. By Heart. Anne Sexton (1928-1974). Said the Poet to the Analyst. Her Kind.
Maya Angelou (1928- ). from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Good Woman Feeling Bad. A Georgia Song. Cynthia Ozick (1928- ). The Shawl. Lore Segal (1928).