Ebook: The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers is the first of its kind: a dazzling, monumental showcase of 350 years of poetry and fiction by American women. Inspired and informed by her groundbreaking history A Jury of Her Peers, Elaine Showalter's landmark anthology features the best work of writers ranging from Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet to contemporary stars like Annie Proulx and Jhumpa Lahiri. For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history and Showalter's collection corrects this injustice, allowing us to see our famous women writers in their full literary context and to encounter scores of lesser-known and forgotten writers who fully deserve to be rediscovered and enjoyed by new generations of readers. Sure to fuel debate for years to come, The Vintage Book of American Women Writers offers an epic overview of the canon in one readable, entertaining, and provocative volume. From the Trade Paperback edition.;Anne Bradstreet -- Mary Rowlandson -- Judith Sargent Murray -- Phillis Wheatley -- Susanna Haswell Rowson -- Catherine Maria Sedgwick -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Caroline Kirkland -- Lydia Maria Child -- Margaret Fuller -- Frances Sargent Locke Osgood -- Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher -- Fanny Fern -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe -- Julia Ward Howe -- Alice Cary -- Elizabeth Drew Stoddard -- Phoebe Cary -- Lucy Larcom -- Frances E.W. Harper -- Rose Terry Cooke -- Emily Dickinson -- Helen Hunt Jackson -- Rebecca Harding Davis -- Louisa May Alcott -- Harriet Prescott Spofford -- Sarah Piatt -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Emma Lazarus -- Sarah Orne Jewett -- Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) -- Kate Chopin -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Grace King -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Edith Wharton -- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) -- Mary Austin -- Willa Cather -- Amy Lowell -- Gertrude Stein -- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- Zitkal-Ša -- Susan Glaspell -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- Anne Spencer -- Elinor Wylie -- Anzia Yerzierska -- Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) -- Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Maria Cristina Mena -- Dorothy Parker -- Genevieve Taggard -- Louise Bogan -- Meridel Le Sueur -- Tess Slesinger -- Ann Petry -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Jean Stafford -- James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Bradley Shelton) -- Shirley Jackson -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Hisaye Yamamoto -- Flannery O'Connor -- Anne Sexton -- Cynthia Ozick -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- Adrienne Rich -- Sylvia Plath -- Annie Proulx -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Amy Tan -- Jhumpa Lahiri.