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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

by Karen L. Kilcup · February 1, 1997

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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American women's expression. Complete texts, many never reprinted or anthologized, come from a wide range of both traditional and rediscovered genres, including: advice and manners, travel writing, myth, children's writing, sketch, utopia, journalism, humor, poetry, oral narrative, sampler verse, short fiction, thriller and detective, spiritual autobiography, letter, and diary. Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers reflects the latest scholarship on both traditional and unfamiliar writing and provides an unequaled view of the breadth of American women's work. Among the many writers represented are: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Lydia Maria Child, the Lowell Offerin writers, Margaret Fuller, Fanny Fern, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances E. W. Harper, Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Sarah M. B. Piatt, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Mary Hallock Foote, Sara Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Anne Julia Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, E. Pauline Johnson, Ida Wells-Barnett, Martha Wolfenstein, and Onoto Watanna.

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