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British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832
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Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH at Rutgers)
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Victorian Women Writers' Project

Voice of the Shuttle

Authors at Women in America 1820-1842

Women of the Romantic Period

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Women Writer's Resource Project

Worchester Women's History Project

Feminist Foremothers On-Line (Historical Order)

15 th century

Christine de Pisan (ca.1364 - ca.1431) ;: Book of the City of Ladies (1405, short excerpt) (HTML at Millersville)

Baldasare Castiglione (Baldessar Castilio) (actually, he's a feminist forefather): The Book of the Courtier is that of Sir Thomas Hoby (1561) (The stuff on women is in Chapter 3 - and it's good stuff, too.) (HTML at Oregon)

16 th century

Laura Cereta (1469-1499): A letter ( HTML at Penn)

Vittoria Colonna (1490 - 1547)

Tullia d'Aragona (1510 - 1556)

Thomas Elyot (fl. 1545): Defense of Good Women (1545) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Angolo Firenzuola (fl. 1548): On the Beauty of Women (1548)

Moderata Fonte (1555 - 1592)

Jane Anger: Her Protection for Women (1589) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

17th century

Rachel Speght (1597 - ): A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)
Mortalities Memorandum (1621) (HTML at Renascence Editions, U. of Oregon)

Ester Sowernam: Ester Hath Hang'd Haman (1617) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Lady Mary Wroth (1586-77, 1651-3): Pamphilia, to Amphilanthus: A Sonnet Sequence from the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 1621 (HTML at Virginia, 150 KB) TOC

Bathsua Makin [aka Bathsua Reginald] (1600 - after 1673): An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Aemilia Lanyer: *** (1611) Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (HTML at Brown)

Elizabeth Knevet Clinton: Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (1622) (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Marie de Gournay: Table of Contents; "Égalité des hommes et des femmes» suivi du" (in French); "Grief des dames" (in French)

Anna Maria von Schurmann (1607-1678): The Learned Maid: Or Whether a Maid may be a Scholar (c. 1650) ( in German)

Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614 - 1702): The Daughter of Sion Awakened, and Putting on Strength; She is Arising, and Shaking herself out of the Dust and Putting on Her Beautiful Garments. (London, 1677) (HTML at Emory)
Women's Speaking Justified

Anne Wentworth (1630-): The Revelation of Jesus Christ (1670) (HTML at Emory Women Writers Project)

Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623 - 1673): 14 works between 1653 and 1668
At least 11 of her works are on-line at RWO (Renaissance Women On-line at Brown University)

Aphra Behn (1640-1689): The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History (HTML at Pemberley)

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz [aka Juana de Asbaje y Ramirez de Santillana] (1648 or 1651 - 1695): Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Project - Searchable complete works in Spanish (HTML at Dartmouth)

18th century

Mary Chudleigh [aka Mary Lee] (1656 - 1710): The Ladies Defence (1700) (HTML at Penn)

Mary Astell (1668-1731): A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1701, short exerpt) (HTML at Omaha)
Some Reflections Upon Marriage (1700, short exerpt) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723): The Female Advocate: or, an Answer to a late Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy of Woman. (London, 1686) (HTML at Emory)

Daniel Defoe: (On) The Education Of Women, 1719 (HTML at Feminist Utopia)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1709-1762): Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (HTML at Virginia, 250 KB) TOC

Mary Evelyn: "Mundus Muliebris: Or, The ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, and her Toilette Spread (London, 1690) (HTML at Emory Women Writers Project)

Elizabeth Montagu (1720- ): Selection from Bluestocking Letters (HTML at Texas)

Hester Mulso Chapone (1727-1801): Envy (HTML at Texas)

Catherine Macaulay (1731-1791): Introduction to Volume 1 of The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line (HTML at Texas)
Letters on Education (1790, HTML at Project Electra)

Sophia (fl.1739): Woman Not Inferior to Man (IBM-PC program in Australia)

Hester Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821)

Selections from Retrospection (HTML at Texas, Annotatable WORP Versions)

Anna Barbauld (1743-1825): "Verses Written in an Alcove" (HTML at Penn)
"Ode to Spring" (HTML at Penn)
"The Mouse's Petition" (HTML at Penn)

Mercy Otis Warren: Blockheads

Abigail Adams (1744-1818)

Hannah More (1745-1833)

"Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs. Boscawen" (HTML at Penn, Michael Gamer)
"The Bas Bleu: or, Conversation (1787)" (HTML at Penn, Stuart Curran)
Selections from Coelebs in Search of a Wife (HTML at Texas)

Chp. I (pages 1-10)
Chp.1 (pages 13-14)

Condorcet: On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship (1790) (HTML at University of Strathclyde)

Thomas Paine: An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (written by Frenchman M. Thomas, published by Paine)

Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784): An elegy, sacred to the memory of the great divine, the Reverend and learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, who departed this life December 29, 1783, aetatis 59. by Phillis Peters. 1784 (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)

Olympia de Gouges (1755-1793): Rights of Women (1791) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800): All Alone and Other Poems (HTML at Penn)
A Letter to the Women of England on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (1799) (HTML at U of Md or Romance Circle)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) (1759 - 1797)

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

HTML at Virginia

TOC

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (HTML at CMU)

19th century

Lucy Aikin (1781 - 1864): Epistles on the Character and Condition of Women, in various ages and nations, epistle 1 (HTML at Texas)

Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870)

Frances Wright (1795-1852)

Sarah Grimké (1792 - 1873): Letters on the Equality of the Sexes (1837) (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Lucretia Mott (1793-1880): Diary of Her Visit to Great Britain to Attend the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 (HTML at WWHP)
The Law of Progress, a Speech delivered at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, New York, May 9, 1848 (html at WFU)

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879): The Empire of Woman (1845) (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)

Anonymous (fl.1795): The Sorrows of Yamba, or The Negro Woman's Lamentation (HTML at Virginia)

Sojourner Truth (c. 1799-1883): Frances D. Gage: Reminiscences of Sojourner Truth (include's Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech)

Catharine Esther Beecher (1800 - 1878): Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions (page images at MOA)
Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper (page images at MOA)
Religious Training of Children in the School, the Family, and the Church (page images at MOA)
The True Remedy for the Wrongs of Woman; with a History of an Enterprise Having That for its Object (1851) (HTML at WWHP)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans [aka Felicia Dorothea Browne] (1793 - 1835): Records of Woman, With Other Poems (second edition, 1828) (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880): Letter to Frances Locke, n.d. (1842-1878) (HTML at Virginia, 7 KB)
The Rebel Faulkner (1861?) (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)
Letter to Mr. Purvis (1868 August 14) (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)
Letter to Samuel Stillman Osgood (1842) (HTML at Virginia 10, KB)
Letter to Mr. Higginson (1859 July 4) (HTML at Virginia 10, 10 KB)
Letter to Lucy Ann (1878, April) (HTML at Virginia 10, 8 KB)
Letter to John Sullivan Dwight (1844, April 23) (HTML at Virginia 10, 15 KB)
Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times (HTML at Virginia)
Philothea: A Romance (1836 edition) (HTML at Virginia)

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

Angelina Grimke (1805-1879): See Gage Links Page (Women in the 19h Century under abolistion and slavery)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning [aka Elizabeth Barrett] (1806 - 1861): Aurora Leigh

Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858): Enfranchisement of Women (1851) (HTML at Assumption)

Fredrika Bremer, trans. by Mary Botham Howitt: The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853) (HTML at Wisconsin)

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan [aka Caroline Norton; Pearce Stevenson] (1808 - 1877) ; Bibliography: English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (HTML at indiana.edu)
The Lady of La Garaye (HTML at indiana.edu)
A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cransworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill ( HTML at indiana.edu)
Letters to the Mob (HTML at indiana.edu)
A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (HTML at indiana.edu)
The Undying One and Other Poems (HTML at Indiana)
A Voice from the Factories (HTML at Indiana)

Abby Kelley Foster (1810-1887): Speech at 1851 Worcester Woman's Rights Convention (HTML at WWHP)

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850): Summer on the Lakes in 1843 (1843, HTML and page images at LOC)
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1855, HTML at eku.edu)

Ernestine L. Rose (1810-1892)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896): Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources (page images at MOA)

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (c. 1812-1877): Women of the Revolution (1848)

Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813-1876): Speech to 1851 Worcester Woman's Rights Convention (HTML at WWHP)
A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement (1870) (HTML at WWHP)

: "Strange Things I Have Seen and Heard" and other pieces from The MyrtleWreath or Stray Leaves Recalled (N.Y.: Charles Scribner, 1854) (HTML at WWHP)

: Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865, Arthur J. Larsen, ed (HTML and page images at LOC)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902): Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817 - 1884)

Lucy Stone (1818-1893)

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906): Woman's Half-Century of Evolution 1902 (HTML at Virginia, 35 KB)

Jenny P. d'Hericourt: A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or Woman Affranchised. an Answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and Other Modern Innovators (HTML at Sunshine for Women)

Marietta Holley: Samantha at Saratoga: or, "Racin' After Fashion" (1887) (illustrated HTML at Mindspring)

Felicia Skene (1821-1899): The Inheritance of Evil, Or, the Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister (1849) (HTML at indiana.edu, size: 242K)
Pententiaries and Reformatories (1865) (HTML at indiana.edu, size:78K, 2 gifs)
Scenesfrom a Silent World, or Prisons and their Inmates (1889) (HTML at indiana.edu, size: 308K)
The Tutor's Ward, Vol. 1 (1851) (HTML at indiana.edu, size: 312K)
The Tutor's Ward, Vol. 2 (1851) (HTML at indiana.edu, size: 300K)

Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904): The Red Flag in John Bull's Eyes (1863) (HTML at Indiana, size: 42K, 1 gif)
Why Women Desire the Franchise (1877) (HTML at Indiana, size: 15K)
Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women (1869) (HTML at Indiana)

Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-189?): Declaration of the Rights of Women (1876) MJ Gage, et. al. (HTML at Matilda Joslyn Gage Website)

John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women (1869) (HTML at Fordham)

Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women (1876)

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822 - 1912): "Woman's Right to Labor," or, Low Wages and Hard Work (page images at MOA)

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [aka Dinah Maria Mulock] (1826 - 1887): A Woman's Thoughts About Women (HTML at indiana.edu)

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827 - 1891): A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (HTML at Indiana)
Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women Considered (HTML at Indiana)
Reasons For and Against the Enfranchisement of Women (HTML at Indiana)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Women And The Alphabet: A Series of Essays (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1881) html at Assumption or LoC

Friederich Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) (html at Colorado)

Josephine E. Butler (1828 - 1906): The Education and Employment of Women (HTML at Indiana)
Mrs. Butler's Appeal to the Women of America (HTML at Indiana)
Native Races and the War (HTML at Indiana)
Social Purity (HTML at Indiana)
Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade Against the State Regulation of Vice (HTML at Indiana)
Truth Before Everything (HTML at Indiana)
The New Godiva: A Dialogue; and A Letter to the International Convention of Women at Washington (1888, HTML at Indiana)

Catherine Mumford Booth (1829 - 1890): Female Ministry: or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel (HTML at Indiana)
Female Teaching (HTML at Indiana)
The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice (HTML at Indiana)
Papers on Practical Religion (HTML at Indiana)
Popular Christianity (HTML at Indiana)

Harriet H. Robinson (): Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774, to 1881 (HTML at WWHP)
Appendix H The Woman Suffrage Commemorative Convention In 1880 (HTML at WWHP)

Helen Taylor (1831-1907): The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered (1867) (HTML at Indiana)

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888): Behind a Mask: or, A Woman'sPower 1866 (HTML at Viginia, 240 KB) TOC

Lillie Devereux Blake [aka Tiger Lily] (1835 - 1913)

Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919): The Story of a Pioneer (1915 Illustrations) (HTML at Virginia, 550 KB) TOC

Jesse Clement ( - ): Noble deeds of American women: with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent (1869) (page images at MOA)

Fannie E. Hodgson ( - ): The Woman Who Saved Me (1872) (HTML at Virginia, 60 KB)

Anonymous: Facts. By a Woman 1881 (HTML at Virginia, 20 KB)

Helen Hamilton Gardner: Men, Women, and the Gods (1885) (HTML at Internet Infidels)
Robert Green Ingersoll's Preface to Helen H. Gardener's Men, Women, and the Gods (1885) (HTML at Internet Infidels)

Mathilde Blind: The Ascent of Man (1889) (HTML at indiana.edu)

Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856 - 1940): Mobilizing Woman-Power (illustrated HTML at LOC)

Anna Julia Cooper (c. 1858-1964)

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman [aka Charlotte Perkins Stetson] (1860 - 1935): "All the World to Her" (1903) (HTML at Virginia, 22 KB)
Earth, the World and I(1900) (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)
Eternal Me (1899 Illustrations) (HTML at Virginia, 5 KB)
Herland (1915) (HTML at Virginia, 326 KB) TOC
Herland (Gutenberg text)
Just To Be Out OfDoors (1905 Illustrations) (HTML at Virginia, 5 KB)
Nation (1892) (HTML at Virginia, 5 KB)
Suffrage Songs and Verses (HTML at CMU)
Up and Down1898 (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)
The Woman's Congress of 1899 (1899) (HTML at Virginia, 20 KB)
The Yellow Wallpaper (1899 Illustrations) (HTML at Virginia, 40 KB)
Our Androcentric Culture, or The Man-Made World (HTML at Project Gutenberg )
The Forerunner Table of Contents vol. 1

Elizabeth Robins [aka C. E. Raimond] (1862 - 1952): My Little Sister (HTML at Jacksonville State)
Votes for Women (HTML at Indiana)

Ida Bell Wells [aka Iola Wells-Barnett] (1862 - 1931)

Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940)

Crystal Eastman (1881 - 1928)

Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

Arthur Gilman (he's a he, too): WomenWho Go to College (1888) (HTML at Virginia, 30 KB)

Aline Gorren: Womanliness as a Profession (1894) (HTML at Virginia, 27 KB)

Eliza Burt Gamble: The God-Idea of the Ancients (1897 Illustrations) (HTML at Virginia, 590 KB) TOC

Lizzie M. Holmes: Woman'sFuture Position in the World (1898) (HTML at Virginia, 28 KB)

Annie L. Muzzey: TheHour and the Woman (1899) (HTML at Virginia, 25 KB)

20th century

Eva Wilder Brodhead: The Eternal Feminine (1900) (HTML at Virginia, 40 KB)

Mary K. Ford: Woman'sProgress a Comparison of Centuries (1909) (HTML at Virginia, 20 KB)

William Hard (yet another he!): TheWomen of Tomorrow (1910) (HTML at Virginia, 210 KB) TOC (HTML at Virginia)

Ellen Key (1849-1926): The Education of the Child (1910) (HTML at Virginia, 115 KB) TOC
The Century of the Child (HTML with commentary in the Netherlands)

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920): Woman and Labour (1911)

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 - 1947): Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement (illustrated HTML at LOC)

Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942): Are Women People?: A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times (HTML at LOC)

Jane Addams (1860-1935): Women and Public Housekeeping (1913) (HTML at Virginia, 10 KB)

Winifred Margaretta Kirkland: TheJoys of Being a Woman and Other Papers (1918) (HTML at Virginia, 370 KB) TOC

Margaret Sanger (1883 - 1966): Debate on Birth Control (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
Family Limitation (1917 edition) (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
What Every Girl Should Know (1922 edition) (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
What Every Girl Should Know (1920 edition) (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
What Every Mother Should Know, or How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

Joseph McCabe: The Story Of Religious Controversy: Chapter XVIII The Degradation of Woman (HTML at Internet Infidels)

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes: Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties (12th edition, 1923) (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

Misogyny

Richard Polwhele: The Unsexed Females (HTML at Virginia, 59 KB)

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last updated Oct. 14, 2001