Nineteenth-century American women writers : an anthology / edited by Karen L. Kilcup.

Reflects the latest scholarship on both traditional and unfamiliar writing and provides an unequaled view of the breadth of American women's work.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kilcup, Karen L. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Iroquoian Cherokee Siouan North American Indian Navajo
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Series:	Blackwell anthologies.
Subjects:	Women > United States > Literary collections. American literature > Women authors. American literature > 19th century. Women. Gender identity.

Table of Contents:

Native American myths. The woman who fell from the sky (Iroquois)
The origin of corn (Eastern Cherokee)
The chief's daughters : an Otoe tale (Otoe)
The ghost wife (Pawnee)
Changing woman and white shell woman (Navajo)
Bluejay and the well-behaved maiden (Nez Percé).
Sampler verses. Adam alone in paradise did grieve
Glittering stones and golden things
I cannot perceive this business design'd
Plain as this canvas was, as plain we find
Oh may our follies like the falling trees
Beauties like princes from their very youth
Mysterious heaven how wondrous are thy ways
Now while my needle does my hours engage
Tis true tis long ere I began
Believe not each aspersing tongue
Ann thou are fair divinely fair
I read his awful name, emblazoned high
How various her employments whom the world
In all my vast concerns with thee
Observe the rising lily's snowy grace
When first my lisping accents came
Whence did the wondrous mystic art arise.
from A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison. The adoption ceremony; new sisters ; Marriage and childbirth ; Women's work among the Seneca; the introduction of ardent spirits / Mary Jemison (Degiwene's)
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a colored woman / Old Elizabeth
from The behavior book : a manual for ladies. Incorrect words / Eliza Leslie
from The Atlantic souvenir. Cacoethes scribendi ; from Letters from abroad to kindred at home. An American in London / Catharine Maria Sedgwick
from Sketch of Connecticut, forty years since. Chapter VI Primus and his daughter ; from Poems. Death of an infant ; from Zinzendorff, and other poems. Niagara ; The western emigrant ; from Water-drops. Drinking song ; from The female poets of America. Indian names ; from Letters of life. Requests for writing / Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
from the Spiritual autobiography and diary. My holy leader, a woman ; A dream of slaughter ; The dream of the cakes ; Rebecca Perot and I in a garden ; Rebecca and me together ; Rebecca's hair ; A beautiful vision ; Two beloved sisters ; Dream of home and search for Eldress Paulina ; The beauty of Zion / Rebecca Cox Jackson.
from the Anti-slavery bugle. May I say a few words? / Sojourner Truth
from Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Ar'n't I a woman? / Frances Dana Gage
from A new home, who'll follow? Borrowing ; One class of settlers / Caroline Kirkland
from Juvenile miscellany. Adventure in the woods ; from The American frugal housewife. Introductory chapter ; General maxims for health ; Education of daughters ; from Fact and fiction. Hilda Silfverling / Lydia Maria Child
from the Lowell offering. A new society ; The white dress; or, Village aristocracy ; from the Lowell offering. Aunt Letty; or, the Useful / Betsey Chamberlain, Lowell Offering writers
from Unpublished diaries. European travel / Lorenza Stevens Berbineau
from Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Mackinaw ; from Woman in the nineteenth-century. We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down / Margaret Fuller
from Olive branch. Aunt Hetty on matrimony ; from True flag. Soliloquy of a housemaid ; from Little ferns for Fanny's little friends. The baby's complaint ; The boy who liked natural history ; from True flag. Hungry husbands ; from Little ferns for Fanny's little friends. A peep underground ; from the New York Ledger. Awe-ful thoughts ; from the New York Ledger. A word on the other side ; from the New York Ledger. Fashionable invalidism / Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton).
The lady's mistake ; "Won't you die & be a spirit" ; The wraith of the rose ; from Poems. The Cocoa-nut tree ; A flight of fancy ; The lily's delusion / Frances Sargent Osgood
from Sunny memories of foreign lands. Letter I sea travel ; from Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories. Laughin' in meetin' / Harriet Beecher Stowe
from Clovernook; or, Recollections of our neighborhood in the West. My grandfather ; from Ballads, lyrics, and hymns. The bridal veil ; If and if ; The sea-side cave ; from The poetical works of Alice and Phoebe Cary. Three bugs / Alice Cary
from Proceedings of the Eleventh Women's Rights Convention. We are all bound up together ; from Sketches of southern life. Aunt Chloe ; The deliverance ; Aunt Chloe's politics ; Learning to read ; Church building ; The reunion ; from the Christian recorder. Fancy etchings ; from the New York freeman. John and Jacob : a dialogue on women's rights ; from Atlanta offering : poems. Songs for the people / Frances E.W. Harper
from The poetical works of Lucy Larcom. Weaving ; The city lights ; March ; A little old girl ; Flowers of the fallow / Lucy Larcom
from Somebody's neighbors. Miss Beulah's bonnet ; from Huckleberries gathered from New England hills. How Celia changed her mind ; from Poems. Blue-beard's closet ; Fantasia ; from Poems. Arachne / Rose Terry Cooke.
Letter 260 to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 15 April 1862 ; I'll tell you how the sun rose ; The nearest dream recedes unrealized ; We play at paste ; Letter 261 to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 25 April 1862 ; South winds jostle them ; Of all the sounds despatched abroad ; There came a day at summer's full ; Letter 265 to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 7 June 1862 ; Letter 271 to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, August 1862 ; I cannot dance upon my toes ; Before I got my eye put out ; Letter 238 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, summer 1861. Safe in their alabaster chambers ; Letter 258 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, early 1862. Your riches taught me poverty! ; Letter 364 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, September 1867 ; Letter 378 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, autumn 1872. A narrow fellow in the grass ; Letter 712 to Gilbert Dickinson, c. 1881. The bumble bee's religion ; Letter 868 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, early October 1883 ; Letter 871 to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, early October 1883. Expanse cannot be lost ; Letter 601a from Helen Hunt Jackson, 12 May 1879 ; One of the ones that Midas touched ; Letter 602 to Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879. A route of evanescence ; Letter 937 to Helen Hunt Jackson, September 1884 ; Letter 937a from Helen Hunt Jackson, 5 September 1884 ; Letter 835 to Mrs. J. Howard Sweetser, summer 1883 ; Letter 835a to Mrs. J. Howard Sweetser, summer 1883. Black cake / Emily Dickinson.
from the Springfield republican. Miss Emily Dickinson of Amherst / Susan Gilbert Dickinson
from Poems. Down to sleep ; from Sonnets and lyrics. Poppies on the wheat ; Crossed threads ; from Poems. October / Helen Hunt Jackson
from Atlantic monthly. Blind Tom ; from Atlantic monthly. A faded leaf of history / Rebecca Harding Davis
from Theophilus and others. Miss Maloney on the Chinese question ; Sunday afternoon in a poor-house / Mary Mapes Dodge
from the Independent. Transcendental wild oats / Louisa May Alcott
from Who would have thought it?. The arrival ; The little black girl ; The mysterious big boxes ; from The squatter and the Don. The Don's view of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo / Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
from Harper's new monthly magazine. In the Maguerriwock / Harriet Prescott Spofford
from Our young folks. The sandpiper's nest ; from Audubon magazine. Woman's heartlessness ; from The poems of Celia Thaxter. Alone ; Remembrance / Celia Thaxter
from Mac-o-cheek press. The fancy ball ; from The galaxy. Giving back the flower ; from A women's poems. An after-poem ; from the Independent. The black princess ; from The capital. The funeral of a doll ; The grave at Frankfort ; from The capital. Faith in fairy-land ; from Atlantic monthly. A lesson in a picture ; from Youth's companion. Trumpet flowers ; from Enchanted castle : and other poems. In the round tower at Cloyne ; from Child's world ballads and other poems. Confession ; from the Bookman. Inspiration and poem ; from Century magazine. A mistake in the bird-market ; from the Independent. A new Thanksgiving / Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt.
from The Widder Doodle's courtship, and other sketches. A pleasure exertion / Marietta Holley ("Josiah Allen's wife")
from Culture and cooking; or, Art in the kitchen. Warming over ; Sauces ; On some table prejudices / Catherine Owen (Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch)
from Lippincott's magazine. "Miss Grief" / Constance Fenimore Woolson
from Men, women, and ghosts. The tenth of January ; from Harper's monthly magazine. The stone woman of Eastern Point / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward)
from Life among the Piutes. First meeting of Piutes and Whites ; Domestic and social moralities / Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony)
from Century magazine. The fate of a voice ; from Century magazine. Pictures of the Far West ; I Looking for camp ; II The coming of winter ; from Century magazine. Pictures of the Far West ; III The sheriff's posse / May Hallock Foote
from Harper's monthly magazine. An ex-brigadier / Sarah Barnwell Elliott
from The poems of Emma Lazarus. Echoes ; The guardian of the red disk ; The new colossus ; The new Ezekiel ; The South / Emma Lazarus
from Play-days : a book of stories for children. Woodchucks ; from Atlantic monthly. The town poor ; from A native of Winby and other tales. The passing of Sister Barsett / Sarah Orne Jewett.
from Vogue. The story of an hour ; from the New Orleans times democrat. Lilacs ; from The complete works of Kate Chopin. The storm / Kate Chopin
from Harper's bazar. Two friends ; from Harper's bazar. Old Woman Magoun / Mary Wilkins Freeman
from Century magazine. The balcony ; from Century magazine. The old lady's restoration ; from Balcony stories. Anne Marie and Jeanne Marie / Grace King
from A branch of May. August ; Mid-March ; from A quiet road. Telling the bees ; from Spicewood. Drought ; A war memory ; from Wild cherry. Emily ; White flags ; from Selected poems. A flower of mullein ; from White April and other poems. Crows ; Nina ; White April / Lizette Woodworth Reese
from Chap-book. The tale of a self-made cat / Kate Douglas Wiggin
from A voice from the South. The higher education of women / Anna Julia Cooper
from Colored American magazine. Talma Gordon ; from Colored American magazine. Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's wedding / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
from the American Jewess. The wooing of Rachel Schlipsky / Laura Jacobson
The yellow wall-paper (manuscript version) / Charlotte Perkins (Stetson) Gilman
from Happy ending : the collected lyrics of Louise Imogen Guiney. Emily Brontë ; Hylas ; London ; Sanctuary ; Two Irish peasant songs ; When on the marge of evening / Louise Imogen Guiney
from The white wampum. Erie waters ; Marshlands ; Shadow River, Muskoka ; from Canadian born. The corn husker ; Low tide at St. Andrews ; from Flint and feather. The Indian corn planter ; from Mother's magazine. The tenas klootchman ; from The moccasin maker. As it was in the beginning / E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake).
from Magnolia leaves. Alaska ; The Cherokee ; The coming woman ; The Saxon legend of language / Mary Weston Fordham
from A red record. History of some cases of rape / Ida Baker Wells-Barnett
from The Nebraska of Kate McPhelim Cleary. Dust storm ; Feet of clay / Kate McPhelim Cleary
from Mrs. Spring Fragrance. Mrs. Spring Fragrance ; "Its wavering image" ; What about the cat? / Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)
from Atlantic monthly. The basket maker ; from Atlantic monthly. The walking woman / Mary Hunter Austin
from Wynema, a child of the forest. Some Indian dishes ; A conservative / Sophia Alice Callahan
from The renegade and other stories. The beast ; Genendel the pious / Martha Wolfenstein
from The goodness of St. Rocque. A carnival jangle ; Sister Josepha / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
from Harper's monthly magazine. Two converts ; from Century magazine. The loves of Sakura Jiro and the three headed maid / Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)
from Atlantic monthly. The school days of an Indian girl / Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
from Century magazine. The birth of the god of war ; The vine-leaf / Maria Cristina Mena.

Nineteenth-century American women writers : an anthology / edited by Karen L. Kilcup.

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