Description: Introduction: The Mother of Us All 1. ANNE BRADSTREET (ca.1612-1672) "The Prologue" (1650) "The Author to Her Book" (1650) "In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659" (1678) "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666" (1667) "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (1678) 2. MARY ROWLANDSON (1637-1711) A Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) 3. JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY (1751-1820) "Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, especially in Female Bosoms" (1784) Lines from "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790) 4. PHILLIS WHEATLEY (ca. 1753-1784) "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773) 5. SUSANNAH HASWELL ROWSON (1762-1824) From Charlotte Temple (1791): Chapter VI: An Intriguing Teacher Chapter XVIII: Reflections 6. CATHERINE MARIA SEDGWICK (1789-1867) "Cacoethes Scribendi" (1830) 7. LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865) "Indian Names" (1849) "Requests for Writing" from Letters of Life (1866) 8. CAROLINE KIRKLAND (1801-1864) Chapter XXVIII, from A New Home--Who''ll Follow? (1839) 9. LYDIA MARIA CHILD (1802-1880) "The Church in the Wilderness" (1828) 10. MARGARET FULLER (1810-1850) From "Autobiographical Sketch" (1852) 11. FRANCES SARGENT LOCKE OSGOOD (1811-1850) "He Bade Me Be Happy"(1849) "Ah! Woman Still" (1850) 12. FRANCES MIRIAM BERRY WHICHER (1811-1852) "The Widow Essays Poetry" from The Widow Bedott Papers , (1856) 13. "FANNY FERN" ( Sara Payson Willis Parton ) (1811-1872) Mrs. Stowe''s Uncle Tom (1853) 14. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) "The Village Do-Nothing" from Oldtown Folks , (1869) 15. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1815-1852) "The Angel Over the Right Shoulder, or, The Beginning of a New Year" (1852) 16. LOUISA AMELIA SMITH CLAPPE (1819-1906) Letter 19, from The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852, (1922) 17. JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910) "The Heart''s Astronomy" from Passion-Flowers (1853) "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862) 18. ALICE CARY (1820-1871) "The Bridal Veil" (1866) 19. ELIZABETH DREW STODDARD (1823-1902) "The Poet''s Secret" (1860) "Before the Mirror"(1860) 20. PHOEBE CARY (1824-1871) "Jacob"(1886) "When Lovely Woman" (1886) 21. LUCY LARCOM (1824-1893) "A Loyal Woman''s No" (1863) "Weaving" (1869) 22. FRANCES E.W. HARPER (1825-1911) "Aunt Chloe" (1872) "Aunt Chloe''s Politics" (1872) "Learning to Read" (1872) "The Triumph of Freedom--A Dream" (1860) 23. ROSE TERRY COOKE (1827-1892) "Bluebeard''s Closet" (1861) "Arachne" (1881) "Odd Miss Todd" (1882) 24. EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) 138: "To fight aloud, is very brave -" 269:"Wild nights - Wild nights!" 339: "I like a look of Agony," 25. HELEN HUNT JACKSON (1830-1885) "The Prince''s Little Sweetheart" (1885) 26. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831-1910) "Marcia" (1876) 27. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888) "My Contraband" (1863) "Transcendental Wild Oats" (1873) 28. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD (1835-1921) "Circumstance" (1860) 29. SARAH PIATT (1836-1919) "The Palace-Burner" (1872) "A New Thanksgiving" (1910) 30. CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON (1840-1894) "Miss Grief" (1880) "Rodham the Keeper" (1880) 31. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD (1844-1911) "The Tenth of January" (1868) 32. EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887) "Echoes" (1880) "The New Colossus" (1883) 33. SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909) "A Circus at Denby" (1877) "A White Heron" (1886) 34. MARY NOAILLES MURFREE ( Charles Egbert Craddock ) (1850-1922) "The ''Harnt'' that Walks Chilhowee" (1884) 35. KATE CHOPIN (1850-1904) "The Story of an Hour" (1894) "At the ''Cadian Ball" (1894) "The Storm" (1898) 36. MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) "A New England Nun" (1891) "Old Woman Magoun" (1909) &nbs

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