Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women’s writing in English.\\Now, the much-anticipated Third Edition responds to the wealth of writing by women across the globe with the inclusion of 61 new authors (219 in all) whose diverse works span six centuries. A more flexible two-volume format and a versatile new companion reader make the Third Edition an even better teaching tool.

v. 1. The Middle Ages through the turn of the century. Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Marie de France (fl. 1170?): Bisclavret ; Yönec -- Julian of Norwich (1342-ca. 1416) : A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich: Chapter 3 [The First Revelation], Chapter 4, From Chapter 58 [Jesus as Mother], From Chapter 59 [God the Mother], Chapter 60, Chapter 61, Chapter 86 [Conclusion] -- Margery Kempe (ca. 1373-1438) : From The Book Of Margery Kempe: Chapter 3 [On Female Celibacy], Chapter 4 [ Her Temptation To Adultery], Chapter 11 [A Settlement With Her Husband], From Chapter 18 [A Meeting With Julian], From Chapter 28 [Pilgrimage], Chapter 52 [Charges Of Heresy], Chapter 76 [Nursing Her Husband] -- Juliana Berners (Ca. 1388-?) : From The Book Of St. Albans: Hunting terminology, Beasts Of Venery, Beasts of the chase, Note here the age of a hart ; The Hare: The reward for the hounds, More about the hare: why the hare voids its dung standing up, and makes pellets of it -- Anne Askew (1521-1546) : The ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) : The Doubt Of Future Foes ; [Ah Silly Pugg, wert thou so sore afraid] ; On Monsieur's Departure ; Speech to the troops at Tilbury -- Isabella Whitney (Fl. 1567-1573) : Will and Testament -- Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess Of Pembroke (1561- 1621): To The Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabeth ; Psalm 58 Si Vere Utique -- Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) : From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: To The Doubtful Reader, To The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, To The Virtuous Reader, Eve's Apology In Defense Of Women ; The Description Of Cooke-Ham -- Martha Moulsworth (1577-16??) : The Memorandum Of Martha Moulsworth, Widow -- Elizabeth Cary (1585-1639) : From The Tragedy Of Mariam, The Faire Queene Of Jewry: From Act 3, Scene 3 [On The Duties Of A Wife], From Act 4, Scene 8 [Mariam's Fate] -- Mary Wroth (1587?-1651/53) : Song ("Love What Art Thou?") -- From Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove"), 8 ("Love, leave to urge"), 11 ("The weary traveler who, tired, sought"), 24 ("When last i saw thee, i did not thee see"), 25 ("Like To The Indians, scorched with the sun"), 43 ("Night, welcome art thou to my mind distressed"), 64 ("Love like a juggler comes to play his prize"), 74 Song ("Love, a child, is ever crying") ; A crown of sonnets dedicated to love: 77 [First Of The Corona] ("In this strange labyrinth, how shall i turn?"), 78 [Second Of The Corona] ("Is to leave all and take the thread of love"), 79 [Third Of The Corona] ("His flames are joys, his bands, true lovers' might"), 89 [Thirteenth Of The Corona]("Free from all fogs but shining fair and clear"), 91 Song ("Sweet, let me enjoy thy sight"), 96 ("Late in the forest i did Cupid see"), 103 ("My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest") -- Rachel Speght (ca. 1597-1630?) : A Muzzle For Melastomus -- Literature Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries -- Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672) : The Prologue ; In Honor Of That High And Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory ; The Author to Her Book ; To My Dear And Loving Husband ; A Letter To Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment ; In Reference To Her Children, 23 June, 1659 ; In Memory Of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years And Seven Months Old ; For Deliverance From A Fever ; From Meditations Divine and Moral ; Here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House, July 10th, 1666. Copied out of a loose paper. -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess Of Newcastle (1623 - 1673) : The Poetess's Hasty Resolution ; An Excuse For So Much Writ Upon My Verses ; Female Orations -- Jane Lead (1624-1704) : A Fountain Of Gardens : [The First Vision], [The Second Vision] -- Katherine Philips (1632-1664) : Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia ; To Mrs. M.A. At Parting ; On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child, Hector Philips ; To Sir Amorous La Fool ; A Married State -- Mary Rowlandson (ca. 1636-1711) 174 -- A Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: The Third Remove -- Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) : The Willing Mistress ; Love Armed ; The Disappointment ; On Her Loving Two Equally ; To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love To Me, Imagined More Than Woman ; Oroonoko, Or The Royal Slave -- Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710) : From The Ladies' Defense ; To The Ladies -- Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) : Upon The Saying That My Verses Were Made By Another ; To My Lord Colrane, In Answer To His Complemental Verses Sent Me Under The Name Of Cleanor -- Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea (1661-1720) : A Letter To Daphnis, April 2, 1685 ; The Introduction ; The Spleen ; To The Nightingale ; The Circuit Of Apollo Adam Posed ; Friendship Between Ephelia And Ardelia ; A Nocturnal Reverie ; The Apology ; The Answer [To Pope's "Impromptu"] -- Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) : From The Private Journal Of A Journey From Boston To New York: Tuesday, October The Third, Friday, October The Sixth, From December The Sixth, January The Sixth -- Mary Astell (1666-1731) : Ambition ; From A Serious Proposal To The Ladies: [A Religious Retirement] -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) : Saturday-The Small-Pox ; Epitaph ; An Answer To A Love Letter In Verse ; Epistle From Mrs. Yonge To Her Husband ; The Reasons That Induced Dr.Swift To Write A Poem Called The Lady's Dressing Room -- Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) : Fantomina; Or, Love In A Maze -- Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin (ca. 1696-1764) 296 : An Epistle To Mr. Pope -- Mary Leapor (1722-1746) : Mira's Will ; The Epistle Of Deborah Dough ; Strephon To Celia ; Proserpine's Ragout -- Lucy Terry (ca. 1724-1821): Bars Fight -- Mary Alcock (1742-1798) : A Receipt For Writing A Novel -- Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) : The Rights Of Woman ; Washing-Day ; Epistle To William Wilberforce Esq. On The Rejection Of The Bill For Abolishing The Slave Trade, 1791 -- Abigail Adams (1744-1818) : Letters To John Adams: [Man Is A Dangerous Creature], November 27, 1775, [Remember The Ladies], March 31, 1776, [Absolute Power Over Wives], May 7, 1776 -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- From The Slave Trade ; From The Gin Shop; Or, A Peep Into Prison -- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) : [Pressed By The Moon, Mute Arbitress Of Tides] ; Thirty-Eight ; Written Near A Port On A Dark Evening; Written In October ; Nepenthe ; On Being Cautioned Against Walking On An Headland Overlooking The Sea, Because It Was Frequented By A Lunatic ; The Sea View ; From Beachy Head: [Imperial Lord Of The High Southern Coast], [An Early Worshipper At Nature's Shrine] -- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820): On The Equality Of The Sexes -- Frances Burney (1752-1840) : From The Diary And Letters Of Madame D'arblay ; Letter From Miss F. Burney To Mrs. Phillips [Authoress Of -- "Evelina"] ; [A Mastectomy ] ; [M. D'arblay's Postscript] -- Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784) : [Letter Sent By The Author's Master To The Publisher] ; On Being Brought From Africa To America ; To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth ; To S. M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works ; To His Excellency, General Washington ; To The University Of Cambridge, In New England -- Mary Robinson (1758-1800) : London's Summer Morning ; January, 1795 ; To The Poet Coleridge ; The Poor Singing Dame -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) : From A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman: Introduction , From Chapter Ii: The Prevailing Opinion Of A Sexual Character Discussed , From Chapter XIII: Some Instances Of The Folly Which The Ignorance Of Women Generates -- Sarah Wentworth Morton (1759-1846) : The African Chief ; From Ouâbi: Or The Virtues Of Nature -- Helen Maria Williams (1761?-1827) : Sonnet To The Moon ; Sonnet: To The Torrid Zone ; From On The Bill Which Was Passed In England For Regulating The Slave Trade -- Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) : A Mother To Her Waking Infant ; Song: Woo'd And Married And A' ; London -- Literature Of The Nineteenth Century -- Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) : The Grateful Negro -- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) : From The Grasmere Journals ; Grasmere-A Fragment ; Thoughts On My Sick-Bed ; [When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?] -- Jane Austen (1775-1817) : Love And Freindship -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) : Casabianca ; The Homes Of England ; Joan Of Arc, In Rheims ; Indian Woman's Death-Song -- Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) :Gifts Of Power: A Dream Of Slaughter , The Dream Of The Cakes, The Dream Of Washing Quilts -- Mary Shelley (1797-1851) : Introduction To Frankenstein ; The Mortal Immortal -- Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883) : Ain't I A Woman? ; What Time Of Night It Is; Keeping The Thing Going While Things Are Stirring -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon ("L.E.L.") (1802-1838) : Revenge ; The Little Shroud ; The Princess Victoria ; The Factory ; The Marriage Vow -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) : A True Dream ; The Cry Of The Children ; Grief ; To George Sand : A Desire ; To George Sand: A Recognition ; The Runaway Slave At Pilgrim's Point ; Hiram Powers' "Greek Slave" ; From Sonnets From The Portuguese: V ("I Lift My Heavy Heart Up Solemnly"), XXII ("When Our Two Souls Stand Up Erect And Strong"), XLIII ("How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways") ; Aurora Leigh: Book I [Aurora's Parents], [Aurora's Journey To England And Education There By Her Father's Sister], Book II [Romney's Proposal Of Marriage To Aurora And Her Refusal], Book V [Aurora's Theories Of Poetry] ; A Curse For A Nation ; Mother And Poet -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) : Woman in the Nineteenth Century: [Prejudice against women], [Muse and Minerva], [The future of women]--Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) : The Old Nurse's Story -- Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) (1811-1872) : Mrs. Adolphus Smith Sporting The "Blue Stocking" ; Mr. Pipkin's Ideas Of Family Retrenchment ; Moral Molasses; Or, Too Sweet By Half ; A Law More Nice Than Just ; Blackwell's Island ; The Working-Girls Of New York -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) : From Uncle Tom's Cabin: Chapter XXX. The Slave Warehouse ; The Minister's Housekeeper -- Harriet Jacobs (ca. 1813-1897) : From Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl: Chapter V. The Trials Of Girlhood, Chapter VI. The Jealous Mistress, Chapter XXI. The Loophole Of Retreat, From Chapter XXIX. Preparations For Escape -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) : From Address To The New York State Legislature, 1860 -- Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) : Jane Eyre -- Emily Brontë (1818-1848) : [Tell Me, Tell Me, Smiling Child] ; [I Am The Only Being Whose Doom] ; [Alone I Sat; The Summer Day] ; F. De Samara To A. G. A. ("Light Up Thy Halls! 'Tis Closing Day") ; The Night-Wind ; [Riches I Hold In Light Esteem] ; [Aye, There It Is! It Wakes To-Night] ; A Day Dream ; R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida ("Cold In The Earth, And The Deep Snow Piled Above Thee!") ; [Ah! Why, Because The Dazzling Sun] ; The Prisoner ; [No Coward Soul Is Mine] ; Stanzas ("Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning") -- George Eliot (1819-1880) : Silly Novels By Lady Novelists ; The Lifted Veil -- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) : Cassandra: [Women's Time], [The Savior Of Her Race] -- Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911) : Ethiopia ; The Slave Mother ; Vashti ; Aunt Chloe's Politics ; Learning To Read ; An Appeal To My Country Women -- Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) : From Our Nig: [Frado's Childhood] -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- 13 [24] ("There Is A Morn By Men Unseen-") ; 157 [103] ("I Have A King, Who Does Not Speak-") ; 194 [1072] ("Title Divine, Is Mine.") ; 201 [209] ("With Thee, In The Desert-") ; 205 [211] ("Come Slowly-Eden!") ; 260 [288] ("I'm Nobody! Who Are You?") ; 267 [737] ("Rearrange A "Wife's" Affection!") ; 269 [249] ("Wild Nights-Wild Nights!") ; 307 [271] ("A Solemn Thing-It Was-I Said-") ; 320 [258] ("There's A Certain Slant Of Light") ; 325 [322] ("There Came A Day-At Summer's Full-") ; 336 [327] ("Before I Got My Eye Put Out-") ; 340 [280] ("I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain") ; 353 [508] ("I'm Ceded-I've Stopped Being Their's-") ; 360 [512] ("The Soul Has Bandaged Moments-") ; 372 [341] ("After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes-") ; 382 [425] ("Good Morning-Midnight-") ; 401 [365] ("Dare You See A Soul At The "White Heat"?") ; 407 [670] ("One Need Not Be A Chamber-To Be Haunted-") ; 409 [303] ("The Soul Selects Her Own Society-") ; 411 [528] ("Mine-By Right Of The White Election!") ; 439 [579] ("I Had Been Hungry, All The Years-") ; 445 [613] ("They Shut Me Up In Prose-") ; 455 [454] ("It Was Given To Me By The Gods-") ; 458 [479] ("She Dealt Her Pretty Words Like Blades-") ; 466 [657] ("I Dwell In Possibility-") ; 479 [712] ("Because I Could Not Stop For Death-") ; 517 [601] ("A Still-Volcano-Life-") ; 519 [441] ("This Is My Letter To The World") ; 533 [569] ("I Reckon-When I Count At All-") ; 559 [392] ("Through The Dark Sod-As Education-") ; 590 [669] ("No Romance Sold Unto") ; 591 [465] ("I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died-") ; 600 [312] ("Her-Last Poems-") ; 620 [435] ("Much Madness Is Divinest Sense-") ; 627 [593] ("I Wish I Was Enchanted") ; 649 [384] ("No Rack Can Torture Me-") ; 656 [520] ("I Started Early-Took My Dog-") ; 675 [401] ("What Soft-Cherubic Creatures-") ; 697 [462] ("Why Make It Doubt-It Hurts It So-") ; 709 [642] ("Me From Myself-To Banish-") ; 745 [722] ("Sweet Mountains-Ye Tell Me No Lie-") ; 764 [754] ("My Life Had Stood-A Loaded Gun-") ; 788 [709] ("Publication-Is The Auction") ; 857 [732] ("She Rose To His Requirement-Dropt") ; 1061 [858] ("This Chasm, Sweet, Opon My Life") ; 1072 [959] ("A Loss Of Something Ever Felt I-") ; 1096 [986] ("A Narrow Fellow In The Grass") ; 1163 [1138] ("A Spider Sewed At Night") ; 1263 [1129] ("Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant-") ; 1311 [1282] ("Art Thou The Thing I Wanted?") ; 1332 [1317] ("Abraham To Kill Him") ; 1470 [1445] ("Death Is The Supple Suitor") ; 1602 [1502] ("Her Losses Make Our Gains Ashamed.") ; 1691 [1705] ("Volcanoes Be In Sicily") ; 1715 [1651] ("A Word Made Flesh Is Seldom") ; 1734 [1657] ("Eden Is That Old Fashioned House") ; 1742 [1670] ("In Winter In My Room") ; 1773 [1732] ("My Life Closed Twice Before It's Close") ; Letters : 233 [Daisy And Her Master] , 248 [Daisy Kneels A Culprit], 260 [Say If My Verse Is Alive?], 261 [My "Companions"], 265 [Fame], 268 [My Business Is Circumference] -- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) : Song ("When I Am Dead, My Dearest") ; Symbols ; After Death ; A Soul ; The World ; Dead Before Death ; Cobwebs ; Shut Out ; A Triad ; A Birthday ; Winter: My Secret ; Up-Hill ; The Convent Threshold ; Goblin Market ; In An Artist's Studio ; Eve ; Enrica, 1865 ; Venus's Looking-Glass -- Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) : Life In The Iron-Mills -- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) : My Mysterious Mademoiselle ; How I Went Out To Service -- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) : Judith ; Myself -- Turn-Of-The-Century Literature -- Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836-1919) : The Palace-Burner ; The Sorrows Of Charlotte ; Engaged Too Long ; The Witch In The Glass ; The Christening ; The Coming Of Eve ; A New Thanksgiving -- Augusta Webster (1837-1894) : Circe ; A Castaway ; From Mother And Daughter -- Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) : Miss Grief -- Michael Field (Katherine Bradley [1846-1914] and Edith Cooper [1862-1913]) : [Atthis, My Darling] ; [Maids, Not To You My Mind Doth Change] ; [Come Gorgo, Put The Rug In Place] ; A Pen-Drawing Of Leda ; [A Girl] ; Unbosoming ; [It Was Deep April] ; To Christina Rossetti ; Eros ; [Lo, My Loved Is Dying] -- Alice Meynell (1847-1922) : The Sunderland Children ; Parentage ; A Father Of Women: Ad Sororem E.B. -- Alice James (1848-1892) : The Diary: [My First Journal!] (May 31st, 1889), [My Microscopic Field] (July 12th [1889]), [Pharasaism; Death] (February 17th [1890]), [My "Hidden Self"] (October 26th [1890]), [Going Downhill] (May 31st [1891]), [This Long Slow Dying] (February 2nd [1892]), [Physical Pain] (March 4th [1892]), Final Entry By Katharine P. Loring -- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) : In The Jewish Synagogue At Newport ; 1492 ; The New Ezekiel ; The New Colossus ; Venus Of The Louvre -- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) : The Town Poor -- Kate Chopin (1850-1904) : The Awakening -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) : The Revolt Of "Mother" -- Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) :Woman And Labor: [Sex-Parasitism] -- Anna Julia Cooper (1858?-1964) : Womanhood: A Vital Element In The Regeneration And Progress of a Race -- Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) : Talma Gordon -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) : She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping ; False Play ; The Mother's Charge ; The Yellow Wallpaper ; Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper? -- Amy Levy (1861-1889) : Magdalen ; Epitaph (On a commonplace person who died in bed) ; In The Mile-End Road ; Ballade Of An Omnibus -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) : A Clever Woman ; The Other Side Of A Mirror ; Regina ; The Devil's Funeral ; The Witch ; Doubt ; The White Women ; Marriage -- E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake [1861-1913]) : A Red Girl's Reasoning ; The Song My Paddle Sings -- v. 2. Early Twentieth-Century Through Contemporary -- Early-Twentieth-Century Literature -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937): The Angel At The Grave ; The Other Two -- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton [1865-1914]): Mrs. Spring Fragrance -- Mary Austin (1868-1934) : The Walking Woman -- Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) : A White Night ; The Farmer's Bride ; The Quiet House -- Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946) : Two Hanged Women -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) : Coming, Aphrodite! -- Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) : Death ; Women And The Future ; The Essential Egoist ; Women In The Future -- Amy Lowell (1874-1925) : The Letter ; Venus Transiens ; Madonna Of The Evening Flowers ; The Weather-Cock Points South ; Opal ; Decade ; Summer Rain ; A Critical Fable ; [On T. S. Eliot And Ezra Pound] ; The Sisters -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) : The Gentle Lena ; Picasso ; Ada -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) : Mr. Baptiste ; I Sit And Sew -- Anna Hempstead Branch (1875-1937) : Sonnets From A Lock Box : XIV ("What Witchlike Spell Weaves Here Its Deep Design") , XXV ("Into The Void Behold My Shuddering Flight"), XXXI ("I Say That Words Are Men And When We Spell") -- Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) : The Trial Path -- Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) : Trifles -- Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) : Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself -- Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880?-1970) : The Lost "Beautifulness" -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) : 22 Hyde Park Gate ; Jane Eyre And Wuthering Heights ; A Woman's College From Outside ; Moments Of Being ; "Slater's Pins Have No Points" ; A Room Of One's Own ; [Shakespeare's Sister] ; Professions For Women ; The Death Of The Moth -- Mina Loy (1882-1966) : Gertrude Stein ; Three Moments In Paris ; One O'clock At Night ; The Widow's "Jazz" ; Omen Of Victory ; Photo After Pogrom ; Songge Byrd ; Portrait Of A Nun ; Feminist Manifesto -- Anne Spencer (1882-1975) : Before The Feast At Shushan ; White Things ; Lady, Lady ; Letter To My Sister ; Innocence -- Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) : The Cooboo -- Anna Wickham (Edith Alice Mary Harper [1884-1947]) : Meditation At Kew -- The Affinity -- Divorce ; Dedication Of The Cook -- Elinor Wylie (1885-1928) : The Eagle And The Mole -- Atavism ; Wild Peaches ; Full Moon ; Let No Charitable Hope ; One Person ; XII ("In Our Content, Before The Autumn Came") ; To A Lady's Countenance ; Pastiche -- Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) : The Blank Page -- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle [1886-1961]) : Orchard ; Oread ; Sea Poppies ; Garden ; Eurydice ; Fragment Thirty-Six ; Helen ; The Master -- Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) : En Famille ; Sir Beelzebub ; Aubade ; Lullaby ; Serenade: Any Man To Any Woman ; Still Falls The Rain -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : Sojourn In The Whale ; Those Various Scalpels ; Poetry ; A Grave ; An Egyptian Pulled Glass Bottle In The Shape Of A Fish ; Silence ; To A Snail ; No Swan So Fine ; The Steeple-Jack ; The Paper Nautilus ; His Shield ; O To Be A Dragon -- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) : The Daughters Of The Late Colonel ; The Fly -- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) : The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) : Sweat ; How It Feels To Be Colored Me -- Nella Larsen (1891-1964) : Quicksand -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) : First Fig ; Second Fig ; [Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry For That Word!] ; [I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed] ; Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree ; The Buck In The Snow ; To Inez Milholland ; [Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now] ; [Oh, Sleep Forever In The Latmian Cave] ; Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies ; Apostrophe To Man ; Rendezvous ; The Fitting ; [I Too Beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex] ;[The Courage That My Mother Had] ; An Ancient Gesture ; [I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines] -- Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) : How It Feels To Be Forcibly Fed ; Cassation -- Rebecca West (1892-1983) : Indissoluble Matrimony -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) : Résumé ; One Perfect Rose ; News Item ; Song Of One Of The Girls ; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature ; The Lives And Times Of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, And George Gordon ; Noel, Lord Byron ; Oscar Wilde ; Harriet Beecher Stowe ; D. G. Rossetti ; Thomas Carlyle ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Walter Savage Landor ; George Sand ; The Waltz ; Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) : Everyday Alchemy ; With Child ; The Quiet Woman ; Leave Me Alone A Little ; A Middle-Aged, Middle-Class Woman At Midnight ; At Last The Women Are Moving ; Mill Town ; Demeter -- Jean Rhys (1894?-1979) : Mannequin -- Louise Bogan (1897-1970) : Medusa ; The Crows ; Women ; Cassandra ; The Crossed Apple ; Evening In The Sanitarium ; Several Voices Out Of A Cloud ; The Dream -- Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) : Santa Teresa ; No Pasarn ; [On Bullfighting] -- Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) : The Military Harpist ; The Irish Patriarch ; Old Nelly's Birthday ; Yorkshire Wife's Saga -- Marita Bonner (1899-1971) : On Being Young-A Woman-And Colored -- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) : The Demon Lover -- Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) : Annunciation -- Laura Riding (1901-1991) : The Map Of Places ; Death As Death ; The Troubles Of A Book ; Eve's Side Of It ; Commentary [On "Eve's Side Of It"] ; Later-Twentieth-Century And Contemporary Literature -- Stevie Smith (1902-1971) : Papa Love Baby ; This Englishwoman ; Lord Barrenstock ; Dear Female Heart ; Souvenir De Monsieur Poop ; Human Affection ; The Wanderer ; Our Bog Is Dood ; Lightly Bound ; Not Waving But Drowning ; How Cruel Is The Story Of Eve -- Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) : Birth -- Dilys Laing (1906-1960) : Sonnet To A Sister In Error ; The Double Goer ; Let Them Ask Their Husbands ; Prayer Of An Ovulating Female -- Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996) : Green Rain ; Eve ; The Three Emily's ; The Children's Letters -- Eudora Welty (1909- 2001) : A Worn Path -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) : The Man-Moth ; Roosters ; The Fish ; Invitation To Miss Marianne Moore ; First Death In Nova Scotia ; In The Waiting Room ; One Art ; Pink Dog ; [Gender And Art] -- Mary Lavin (1912-1996) : In A Café -- Mary Mccarthy (1912-1989) : Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood ; Names -- May Sarton (1912-1995) : My Sisters, O My Sisters ; Letter From Chicago ; The Muse As Medusa -- Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) : Boy With His Hair Cut Short ; More Of A Corpse Than A Woman ; Who In One Lifetime ; Letter To The Front ; VII ("To Be A Jew In The Twentieth Century") ; Night Feeding ; The Birth Of Venus ; The Power Of Suicide ; The Poem As Mask ; Käthe Kollwitz ; Myth ; Along History -- May Swenson (1913-1989) : The Centaur ; Women ; Bleeding ; Blue -- Tillie Olsen (B. Ca. 1913) : Tell Me A Riddle -- James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon [1915-1987]) : The Women Men Don't See -- Ruth Stone (B. 1915) : In An Iridescent Time ; Periphery ; The Song Of Absinthe Granny ; Second-Hand Coat ; Names ; Things I Say To Myself While Hanging Laundry ; At Eighty-Three She Lives Alone ; Sorrow ; Cousin Francis Speaks Out ; From Outer Space ; The Barrier ; The Jewels -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) : Dark Blood ; Lineage ; Molly Means ; Kissie Lee ; Whores ; For Malcolm X -- Judith Wright (1915-2000) : Half-Caste Girl ; Woman To Man ; The Sisters ; Ishtar ; Request To A Year ; To Another Housewife ; Eve To Her Daughters ; Naked Girl And Mirror ; "Rosina Alcona To Julius Brenzaida" ; Two Dreamtimes ; Some Words ; Counting In Sevens -- P. K. Page (B. 1916) : The Stenographers ; Typists ; Planet Earth ; Carson Mccullers (1917-1967) : The Ballad Of The Sad Café -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) : The Mother ; A Song In The Front Yard ; The Sundays Of Satin-Legs Smith ; The Rites For Cousin Vit ; From The Womanhood ; 3 ("Stand Off, Daughter Of The Dusk") ; The Bean Eaters ; We Real Cool ; Bronzeville Woman In A Red Hat ; The Last Quatrain Of The Ballad Of Emmett Till ; Malcolm X -- Muriel Spark (1918-2006) : The Black Madonna -- Louise Bennett (1919-2006) : Pass Fe White ; Colonisation In Reverse ; Jamaica Oman -- Doris Lessing (B. 1919) : One Off The Short List -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker [1920-1993]) : We Are Going ; Understand, Old One ; Municipal Gum -- Gwen Harwood (1920-1995) : In The Park ; The Sea Anemones ; Mother Who Gave Me Life ; Mid-Channel -- Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) : Seventeen Syllables -- Mavis Gallant (b. 1922) : Mlle. Dias De Corta -- Grace Paley (b. 1922) : My Father Addresses Me On The Facts Of Old Age -- Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : The Goddess ; Song For Ishtar ; Hypocrite Women ; In Mind ; The Ache Of Marriage ; Eros At Temple Stream ; Abel's Bride ; The Son ; Stepping Westward ; The Mutes ; What Were They Like? ; Canción ; Divorcing ; The Dragonfly-Mother ; Ancient Airs And Dances ; Evening Train -- Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) : The Moment Before The Gun Went Off -- Shirley Kaufman (b. 1923) : His Wife ; Mothers, Daughters ; Abishag ; Stones ; Longing For Prophets ; Intifada: The Status Quo, Peace March, Decisions -- Patricia Beer (1924-1999) : Witch ; Brunhild ; The Bull ; In Memory Of Constance Markiewicz ; Mating Calls -- Transvestism In The Novels Of Charlotte Brontë -- Janet Frame (1924-2004) : Keel And Kool -- Flannery O'connor (1925-1964) : Good Country People -- Carolyn Kizer (b. 1925) : From Pro Femina: Three ("I Will Speak About Women Of Letters, For I'm In The Racket") ; Semele Recycled ; Second Time Around -- Maxine W. Kumin (b. 1925) : Making The Jam Without You ; The Envelope ; How It Is ; Skinnydipping With William Wordsworth ; Women And Horses ; Sonnet In So Many Words -- Anne Sexton (1928-1974) : Her Kind -- The Moss Of His Skin ; Housewife ; Woman With Girdle ; Somewhere In Africa ; Sylvia's Death ; In Celebration Of My Uterus -- Maya Angelou (b. 1928) : From I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: [The Peckerwood Dentist And Momma's Incredible Powers] -- Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928) : The Shawl -- U.A. Fanthorpe (b. 1929) : For Saint Peter ; From Only Here For The Bier: 1. Mother-In-Law, 2. King's Daughter ; Women Laughing ; From The Third Storey -- Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929) : Sur ; She Unnames Them -- Paule Marshall (b. 1929) : Poets In The Kitchen -- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) : Aunt Jennifer's Tigers ; Snapshots Of A Daughter-In-Law ; "I Am In Danger-Sir-" ; Diving Into The Wreck ; Power ; From Twenty-One Love Poems : XI ("Every Peak Is A Crater"), (The Floating Poem, Unnumbered), XXI ("The Dark Lintels, The Blue And Foreign Stones") ; Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev ; Final Notations ; From Eastern War Time ; In Those Years ; To The Days ; Fox ; The School Among The Ruins ; When We Dead Awaken: Writing As Re-Vision (1971) -- Toni Morrison (b. 1931) : Recitatif ; Unspeakable Things Unspoken -- Alice Munro (b. 1931) : Floating Bridge -- Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) : The Disquieting Muses ; The Colossus ; You're ; Mirror ; The Bee Meeting ; The Arrival Of The Bee Box ; Stings ; The Swarm ; Wintering ; Daddy ; Ariel ; Nick And The Candlestick ; Lady Lazarus ; Words ; Edge -- Edna O'brien (b. 1932) : Brother -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) : Coal ; On A Night Of The Full Moon ; Now That I Am Forever With Child ; From The House Of Yemanjá ; The Women Of Dan Dance With Swords In Their Hands To Mark The Time When They Were Warriors ; Kitchen Linoleum ; The Electric Slide Boogie ; From Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name: [Origins] -- Fleur Adcock (b. 1934) : For A Five-Year-Old ; Miss Hamilton In London ; Against Coupling ; The Voyage Out ; On The Border ; Street Song -- Diane Di Prima (b. 1934) : From Thirteen Nightmares ; Nightmare 7 ; Nightmare 12 ; Song For Baby-O, Unborn ; April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa ; Poem In Praise Of My Husband (Taos) ; Letter To Jeanne (At Tassajara) ; Narrow Path Into The Back Country ; Annunciation ; The Loba Priestess As Bag Lady Utters Ragged Warnings -- June Jordan (1936-2002) : The Wedding ; The Reception ; Poem About Police Violence ; A Runaway Lil Bit Poem ; Deliza Spend The Day In The City -- A. S. Byatt (b. 1936) : A Stone Woman -- Lucille Clifton (b. 1936) : Admonitions ; The Lost Baby Poem ; If Our Grandchild Be A Girl ; My Dream About Being White ; Poem To My Uterus ; To My Last Period ; Leda 3 -- Anita Desai (b. 1937) : Royalty -- Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) : Top Girls -- Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) : Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? -- Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) : This Is A Photograph Of Me ; Spelling ; Waiting ; Asparagus ; Marsh Languages ; Morning In The Burned House ; Rape Fantasies ; There Was Once ; The Little Red Hen Tells All -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) : The Company Of Wolves -- Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) : No Name Woman -- Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) : The Management Of Grief -- Lyn Hejinian (b. 1940) : From My Life -- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) : Tlilli, Tlapalli / The Path Of The Red And Black Ink -- Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1942) -- The Message -- Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) : Ballad Of Ladies Lost And Found ; Runaways Café I ; Runaways Café Ii ; From Cancer Winter ; The Boy ; Crepuscule With Muriel ; Migraine Sonnets -- Sharon Olds (b. 1942) : The Death Of Marilyn Monroe ; The Language Of The Brag ; Rite Of Passage ; The One Girl At The Boys' Party ; This ; The Mortal One -- Louise Glück (b. 1943) : The School Children ; The Drowned Children ; From Dedication To Hunger : 4. The Deviation ; Widows ; Terminal Resemblance ; First Memory ; Lullaby ; Vita Nova -- Eavan Boland (b. 1944) : In His Own Image ; Anorexic ; The Muse Mother ; Degas's Laundresses ; The Pomegranate ; Against Love Poetry -- Alice Walker (b. 1944) : In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens -- Lynn Freed (b. 1945) : Under The House -- Octavia Butler (1947-2006) : Bloodchild -- Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) : Guinea Woman ; Nanny ; Mother The Great Stones Got To Move ; Annie Pengelly ; After The Green Gown Of My Mother Gone Down ; To Mr. William Wordsworth, Distributor Of Stamps For Westmoreland ; Change If You Must Just Change Slow -- Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) : Yellow Woman -- Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) : Girl -- Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) : Bilingual Sestina ; The Master Bed ; Storm Windows ; 33: [Where Are The Girls Who Were Beautiful?], [Sometimes The Words Are So Close I Am] ; On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan's The Blue Estuaries -- Anne Carson (b. 1950) -- The Glass Essay ; Lazarus Standup: Shooting Script -- Carolyn Forché (b. 1950) : The Colonel ; Elegy -- Medbh Mcguckian (b. 1950) : The Flitting ; Visiting Rainer Maria ; Black Virgin ; She Is In The Past, She Has This Grace -- Grace Nichols (b. 1950) : The Assertion ; The Fat Black Woman Remembers ; Tropical Death ; Out Of Africa -- Jorie Graham (b. 1951) : History ; Orpheus And Eurydice -- Joy Harjo (b. 1951) : Deer Dancer ; Mourning Song ; The Path To The Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles ; The Naming ; Morning Song ; When The World As We Knew It Ended -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) : The House Slave ; Parsley ; From Thomas And Beulah ; The Great Palaces Of Versailles ; Wingfoot Lake ; Persephone, Falling ; Sonnet In Primary Colors ; Rosa ; "I Have Been A Stranger In A Strange Land" -- Luci Tapahonso (b. 1953) : Blue Horses Rush In ; Leda And The Cowboy -- Kim Addonizio (b. 1954) : "What Do Women Want?" ; Generations ; Last Call ; 31-Year-Old Lover ; You Don't Know What Love Is ; Sonnenizio On A Line From Drayton -- Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) : Woman Hollering Creek -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) : The Shawl -- Helena María Viramontes (b. 1954) : The Moths -- Marilyn Chin (b. 1955) : How I Got That Name ; That Half Is Almost Gone ; The True Story Of Mortar And Pestle -- Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) -- Warming Her Pearls ; Litany ; September, 1997 ; Circe ; Mrs Lazarus -- Paula Meehan (b. 1955) : Child Burial ; "Would You Jump Into My Grave As Quick?" ; The View From Under The Table ; Thunder In The House -- Rebecca Brown (b. 1956) : Forgiveness -- Gish Jen (b. 1956) : Who's Irish? -- Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) : The Poetics Of Sex -- Margaret Edson (b. 1961) : Wit -- Jackie Kay (b. 1961) -- In My Country ; Finger ; Hottentot Venus ; Paw Broon On The Starr Report ; Big Milk -- Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) -- A Temporary Matter .