List of Illustrations
General Introduction
THE FOURTEENTH THROUGH SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
A Historical Overview, 1300-1700
Women's Place in Society: The Dispossessed
Owning Their Words: Women's Writing, 1300-1700
Timeline
Julian of Norwich (c. 1342–c. 1416; England)
From Revelation of Divine Love
Chapter 3 The illness thus obtained from God
Chapter 5 God is all that is good
Chapter 59 Wickedness is transformed into blessedness
Chapter 60 We are brought back and fulfilled by our Mother Jesus
Margery Kempe (c. 1373–c. 1438; England)
From The Book of Margery Kempe
Chapter 1 Margery’s First Vision
Chapter 11 Margery Reaches a Settlement with Her Husband
Chapter 46 Margery’s encounter with the Mayor of Leicester
Anne Askew (c. 1521–1546; England)
The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She Was in Newgate
From The Latter Examination
The Sum of my Examination afore the King’s Council at Greenwich
Cultural Coordinates: Needlework
Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603; England)
The Dread of Future Woes
A Song Made by Her Majesty
Isabella Whitney (c. 1540s–c. 1578; England)
The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those In It, At Her Departing
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621; England)
A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds. Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astraea
Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645; England)
From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum /
To the Virtuous Reader
Eve’s Apology in Defence of Women
The Description of Cooke-ham
Cultural Coordinates: Household Space
Lady Margaret Cunningham (c. 1580–c. 1622; Scotland)
From A Part of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninghame, Daughter of the Earl of Glencairn, That She Had with Her First Husband, the Master of Evandale
[An account of domestic abuse]
Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1586–c. 1651; England)
From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus:
1 [When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove]
13 [Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night]
15 [Dear famish not what you yourself gave food]
16 [Am I thus conquered]
22 [Come darkest night]
25 [Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun]
Lady Anne Clifford (1590–1676; England)
From The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford (1616–1619):
February 1616 [Meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury]
March 1616 [A refusal to capitulate]
April 1616 [From London to Knole]
May 1616 [Her mother dies]
Cultural Coordinates: Scolds
Dorothy Leigh (Active c. 1616; England)
From The Mothers Blessing:
To My Beloved Sons, George, John, and William Leigh, All Things Pertaining to Life and Godliness
Chapter 2, The First Cause of Writing Is a Motherly Affection
Chapter 13, It Is Great Folly For a Man to Mislike His Own Choice
Elizabeth Brooke Jocelin (c. 1595–1622; England)
From The Mother’s Legacy to Her Unborn Child
Epistle Dedicatory: To My Truly Loving and Most Dearly Loved Husband, Turrell Jocelin
Cultural Coordinates: Women’s Community in Childbirth Rooms (illus.)
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672; England, American colonies)
From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America
The Prologue
The Author to Her Book
Before the Birth of one of her Children
In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Margaret Fell Fox (1614–1702; England)
From Women’s Speaking Justified
[The Church of Christ Is a Woman]
Lady Anne Halkett (c. 1622–1699; England)
From Memoirs:
[Her mother threatens to disown her]
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1674; England)
From Philosophical and Physical Opinions
Epistle: To the most famously learned
From Philosophical Letters: or, Modest Reflections
Letter XXXVI [Other Creatures May Be as Wise as Men]
Mary Boyle Rich (c. 1624–1678; Ireland, England)
From Diary
[Events of 1624-43, Including a Complicated Romantic Affair]
Cultural Coordinates: Women’s Spiritual Diaries (illus.)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton (1626–1663; England)
From Loose Papers
When I Lost My Dear Girl Kate
Katherine Fowler Philips (c. 1631–1664; England)
A Married State
Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles I
On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips
Friendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship
Orinda to Lucasia
Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637–1711; England, American colonies)
From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
The First Remove
The Third Remove
From The Twentieth Remove
Aphra Behn (c. 1640–1689; England)
The Rover
Cultural Coordinates: Restoration Actresses (illus.)
Anne Killigrew (c. 1660–1685; England)
A Farewell to Worldly Joys
Upon the Saying That My Verses Were Made by Another
The Discontent
Anne Finch (1661–1720; England)
A Letter to Daphnis
The Introduction
Ardelia to Melancholy
To the Nightingale
The Apology
A Nocturnal Reverie
Cultural Coordinates: Menstruation and Misogyny
Jane Sharp (Active c. 1671; England)
From The Midwives Book
Of the Fashion and Greatness of the Womb, and of the Parts It Is Made Of
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
TIMELINE: EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762; England)
From Turkish Embassy Letters
Letter XXVII [A Visit to a Turkish Bath]
Letter XLI [Sultana Halfise]
Eliza Haywood (c.1693–1756; England)
The Dangers of Tea
Mary Leapor (1722–1746: England)
Crumble Hall
An Essay on Woman
The Headache
Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814; United States)
An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States
Janet Schaw (c. 1734–1801; Scotland)
From Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being a Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies
[Society in Antigua]
[A Visit to Olovaze]
Cultural Coordinates: At Sea (illus.)
Mary Collier (Active 1739–1760; England)
The Woman’s Labour
Anna Laetitia Akin Barbauld (1743–1825; England)
The Rights of Woman
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
Washing-Day
Abigail Adams (1744–1818; United States)
From The Adams Family Correspondence
[The Nature of Woman’s Experience]
[Remember the Ladies]
[Education in the New Republic]
Cultural Coordinates: Bluestockings (illus.)
Hannah More (1745–1833; England)
From Strictures on a Modern System of Female Education
Chapter 1, An Address to Women of Rank and Fortune
The Black Slave Trade
The White Slave Trade
Cultural Coordinates: The Hoop-Petticoat (illus.)
Frances Burney (d’Arblay) (1752–1840; England)
From The Early Journals and Letters of Frances Burney
[A Young Writer’s Diary]
[The Publication of Evelina]
From Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay
[Life at Court of George III]
From Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World
Letter X [Evelina arrives in London]
Letter XI [Evelina at the Ball]
Letter XII [A Trip to Ranelagh]
Letter XV [A Dangerous Walk in Vauxhall]
Cultural Coordinates: Shopping (illus.)
Phillis Wheatley (c. 1754–1784; United States)
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On the Death of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield
To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
To the Excellent George Washington
Jane Cave (Active c. 1786; England)
Written by the Desire of a Lady, on an Angry, Petulant Kitchen-Maid
Written a Few Hours Before the Birth of a Child
Eliza Fay (1756–1816; England)
From Original Letters from India
Letter XIV [Madras]
Letters XV–XVI, XX [Calcutta]
Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800; England)
London’s Summer Morning
January, 1795
Cultural Coordinates: Prostitution (illus.)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797; England)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Author’s Introduction
Chapter 2, The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
Chapter 9, Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
Cultural Coordinates: Breastfeeding and the Wet Nurse
Janet Little (1759–1813; Scotland)
Given to a Lady Who Asked Me to Write a Poem
Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849; Ireland, England)
From Letters for Literary Ladies
Letters of Julia and Caroline
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855; England)
From The Grasmere Journals
[A Brother’s Departure, May 14, 1800]
[Daffodils, April 1802]
[Good Friday, April 16, 1802]
[William Marries, September 24, 1802]
Mary Birkett (1774–1817; Ireland)
A Poem on the African Slave Trade
Cultural Coordinates: The Tea Table (illus.)
Mary Prince (1788–c. 1833; Bermuda, Turk Islands, Antigua, England)
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
Elizabeth Hands (Active 1789; England)
Written, Originally Extempore, on Seeing a Mad Heifer Run through the Village Where the Author Lives
A Poem on the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and Read
Anna Maria Falconbridge (Active 1790s; England)
From Two Voyages to Sierra Leone
[A Trip to Bance Island]
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
TIMELINE: NINETEENTH CENTURY
Cultural Coordinates: The First Australian Woman Writer
Susanna Rowson (1762–1824; England, United States)
Charlotte Temple
Cultural Coordinates: The Corset, or Why Heroines Faint so Often (illus.)
Jane Austen (1775–1817; England)
From Northanger Abbey
Chapters 4–5 [Catherine and Isabella Become Friends]
Library of Women’s Literature: Pride and Prejudice
Cultural Coordinates: Cassandra’s Sketch and “Gentle Jane” (illus.)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867; United States)
Cacoethes Scribendi
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865; United States)
To a Shred of Linen
Unspoken Language
Eve
Felicia Dorothea Brown Hemans (1793–1835; England)
England’s Dead
Bring Flowers
Casabianca
Mary Shelley (1797–1851; England, Italy)
From Frankenstein
Chapters 11-17 [The Monster’s Narrative]
Sojourner Truth (c.1797–1883; United States)
From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Her Birth and Parentage
Accommodations
Her Brothers and Sisters
Sojourner Truth’s “Ar’n’t I a Woman” Speech (as reported in the Anti-Slavery Bugle)
Sojourner Truth’s “Ar’n’t I a Woman” Speech (as recorded in Reminiscences of Frances D. Gage)
Cultural Coordinates: Cartes de Visite (illus.)
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876; England)
From Morals of Slavery
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880; United States)
From An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Preface
Chapter 1, Brief History of Negro Slavery—Its Inevitable Effect upon All Concerned in It
From Letters from New York
Letter XXXIV [Women’s Rights]
Susanna Moodie (1803–1885; Canada)
From Roughing it in the Bush
[The Adventures of One Night]
Cultural Coordinates: How Did They Do It? The Mechanics of Writing (illus.)
Angelina Grimké (Weld) (1805–1879; United States)
From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861; England, Italy)
From Sonnets from the Portuguese
XIV [If thou must love me, let it be for nought]
XLIII [How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.]
From Aurora Leigh
Book I [Aurora’s Education]
Frances Dana Gage (1808–1880; United States)
Tales of Truth, No.1
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850; United States)
From Summer on the Lakes
Summer on the Lakes
To a Friend
Chapter 1 [Gateway to the West: Niagara Falls]
A Short Essay on Critics
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Preface
[Woman, Present and Future]
Cultural Coordinates: Niagara Falls (illus.)
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865; England)
The Three Eras of Libbie Marsh
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896; United States)
From Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Chapter 1, In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
Chapter 5, Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
Chapter 7, The Mother’s Struggle
Chapter 14, Evangeline
Chapter 22, “The Grass Withereth—The Flower Fadeth”
Chapter 32, Dark Places
Chapter 40, The Martyr
Cultural Coordinates: The Realism of Stereotypes (illus.)
Frances (Fanny) Locke Osgood (1811–1850; United States)
Ellen Learning to Walk
The Little Hand
He Bade Me Be Happy
Forgive and Forget
A Reply
Cultural Coordinates: The Invention of the Ladies’ Magazine: Godey’s Lady’s Book (illus.)
Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811–1872; United States)
Hints to Young Wives
Mrs. Stowe’s Uncle Tom
Shall Women Vote?
The Working Girls of New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902; United States)
Declaration of Sentiments
The Solitude of Self
Cultural Coordinates: The Seneca Falls Convention, July 19–20, 1848 (illus.)
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855; England)
[We wove a web in childhood]
Library of Women’s Literature: Jane Eyre
Cultural Coordinates: Phrenology (illus.)
Emily Brontë (1818–1848; England)
A.G.A: To the Bluebell
Song [O between distress and pleasure]
Love and Friendship
[Shall Earth no more inspire thee]
A.G. to G.S.
To Imagination
[No coward soul is mine]
Women Composers of Hymns, 1840–1899
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805–1848; England)
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Anne Brontë (1820–1849; England)
The Narrow Way
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910; United States)
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894; England)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929; United States)
O Beautiful for Spacious Skies
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813–1897; United States)
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
Preface by the Author
Introduction by the Editor
Chapter 1, Childhood
Chapter 2, The New Master and Mistress
Chapter 5, The Trials of Girlhood
Chapter 10, A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
Chapter 21, The Loophole of Retreat
Chapter 41, Free at Last
Cultural Coordinates: Reward for the Capture of Harriet Jacobs (illus.)
Susan Warner (1819–1885; United States)
From The Wide, Wide World
Chapter 1 [Ellen and Her Mother]
Chapter 3 [Ellen Goes Shopping]
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880; England)
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
Cultural Coordinates: Spirit Rappers and Spiritualism (illus.)
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910; England)
From Cassandra
II [Intellect]
IV [Moral Activity and Marriage]
VII [The Dying Woman]
Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886; United States)
From Civil War Journal
February 18, 1861 [I wanted them to fight and stop talking]
February 19, 1861 [We have to meet tremendous odds]
Harriet E. Wilson (1825?–1900?; United States)
From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Preface
Chapter 1, Mag Smith, My Mother
Chapter 2, My Father’s Death
Chapter 3, A New Home for Me
Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910; Australia)
From Clara Morison
Chapter 8, At Service
Frances E. W. Harper (1825–1911; United Sates)
Eliza Harris
The Slave Mother
Aunt Chloe’s Politics
The Two Offers
Woman’s Political Future
Dinah Mulock Craik (1826–1887; England)
From A Woman’s Thoughts About Women
Chapter 1, Something to Do
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885; United States)
My Tenants
September
The Victory of Patience
Chance
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886; United States)
6 [Frequently the woods are pink]
14 [One Sister have I in our house]
216 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers]
241 [I like a look of Agony]
249 [Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]
252 [I can wade Grief]
258 [There’s a certain Slant of light]
280 [I felt a Funeral, in my brain]
288 [I’m Nobody! Who are you?]
341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes]
365 [Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?]
441 [This is my letter to the World]
444 [It feels shame to be Alive]
579 [I had been hungry, all the Years]
656 [The name—of it—is Autumn]
709 [Publication—is the Auction]
754 [My Life has stood—a Loaded Gun]
812 [A light exists in Spring]
912 [Peace is a fiction of our Faith]
986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]
1101 [Between the form of Life and Life]
1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant]
1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book]
1580 [We shun it ere it comes]
Letters
To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson), early June 1852
To T. W. Higginson, 7 June 1862
To T. W. Higginson, February 1885
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894; England)
A Birthday
A Better Resurrection
Goblin Market
In an Artist’s Studio
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910; United States)
Life in the Iron-Mills
Anna Leonowens (1831–1914; England, Colonial: India, Thailand, and Canada)
From The Romance of the Harem
Chapter 2, Tuptim: A Tragedy of the Harem
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888; United States)
A Double Tragedy: An Actor’s Story
Library of Women’s Literature: Little Women
Hannah Crafts (Active 1850s, United States)
From The Bondswoman’s Narrative
Preface
Chapter 1, In Childhood
Isabella Beeton (1836–1865; England)
From Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management
[Sample Recipes]: Lark Pie (An Entrée), Boiled Asparagus, Christmas Plum Pudding (Very Good)
[Sample Bills of Fare]: Plain Family Dinners for January
[Sample Sections from “Household Management”]: Duties of the Valet, The Wet-Nurse
Cultural Coordinates: Level Measures (illus)
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (c. 1844–1891; Paiute: United States)
From Life Among the Piutes
Chapter 1, First Meeting of Piutes and Whites
Emma Lazarus (1849–1887; United States)
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport
1492
The New Colossus
Cultural Coordinates: The Sewing Machine (illus)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909; United States)
A White Heron
Kate Chopin (1850–1904; United States)
The Awakening
Rosa Praed (1851–1935; Australia)
From Policy and Passion
An Australian Explorer
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930; United States)
A Poetess
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (1858–1922; India)
From The High Caste Hindu Woman
Chapter 5 [Suttee]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935; United States)
The Yellow Wallpaper
Cultural Coordinates: Nervousness and the Rest Cure
Mary Kingsley (1862–1900; England)
From Travels in West Africa
[A West African River and a Canoe]
THE TWENTIETH THROUGH THE TWENTY–FIRST CENTURIES
TIMELINE: TWENTIETH–TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES
Annie Besant (1847–1933; England, India)
From A Nation’s Rights
[The Foundations of Rights]
Cultural Coordinates: The Bra (illus.)
Edith Wharton (1862–1937; United States, France)
Roman Fever
Library of Women’s Literature: The House of Mirth
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865–1914; United States)
In the Land of the Free
Cultural Coordinates: Chinese Women and U.S. Immigration
Cornelia Sorabji (1866–1954; India, England)
From India Calling
Chapter 2, Preparation and Equipment: in India and England
Katherine Mayo (1867–1940; United States)
From Mother India
Chapter 8, Mother India
Cultural Coordinates: The Memsahib (illus)
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945; United States)
Jordan’s End
Willa Cather (1873–1947; United States)
A Wagner Matinee
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946; United States, France)
Ada
Preciosilla
Susie Asado
From Patriarchal Poetry
[Their origin and their history]
Cultural Coordinates: Two Women Writers in Paris, Never Meeting (illus.)
Alice Dunbar–Nelson (1875–1935; United States)
Sister Josepha
I Sit and Sew
Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938; Sioux: United States)
From School Days of an Indian Girl
The Cutting of My Long Hair
Why I Am a Pagan
Cultural Coordinates: Indian Boarding Schools (illus.)
Margaret Cousins (1875–1954; Ireland, India)
From The Awakening of Asian Womanhood
Chapter 2, Indian Womanhood: A National Asset
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949; India)
The Gift of India
The Indian Gypsy
Bangle-sellers
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932; India)
Sultana’s Dream
Cultural Coordinates: Purdah (illus.)
Mourning Dove (Humishuma/Christine Quintasket) (1882?–1936; Colville-Okanaga: United States)
From Cogwea, the Half-Blood
[The Indian Dancers]
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941; England)
Kew Gardens
Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street
Library of Women’s Literature: Mrs. Dalloway
From A Room of One's Own
[Shakespeare’s Sister]
[Peroration: Women Write!]
A Haunted House
Susan Glaspell (1876–1948; United States)
Trifles
Anzia Yezierska (c. 1885–1921; Poland/Russia, United States)
Soap and Water
Cultural Coordinates: Sweatshops (illus)
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (1885–1962; Denmark, Kenya)
The Blank Page
H. D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886–1961; United States, Switzerland)
From The Walls Do Not Fall
9 [Thoth, Hermes, the stylus]
10 [But we fight for life]
From Tribute to the Angels
8 [Now polish the crucible]
9 [Bitter, bitter jewel]
11 [O swiftly, re-light the flame]
12 [Swiftly re-light the flame]
13 [“What is the jewel colour?” ]
19 [We see her visible and actual]
20 [Invisible, indivisible Spirit]
21 [There is no rune nor riddle]
23 [We are part of it]
28 [I had been thinking of Gabriel]
35 [So she must have been pleased with us]
36 [Ah (you say), this is Holy wisdom]
39 [But nearer than Guardian Angel]
From The Flowering of the Rod
5 [Satisfied, unsatisfied]
6 [So I would rather drown, remembering]
Marianne Moore (1887–1972; United States)
The Fish
The Paper Nautilus
In Distrust of Merits
Willa Muir (1890–1970; Scotland)
From Imagined Corners
Chapter 3 [Elizabeth Ramsay and Elizabeth Shand]
Jean Rhys (1890–1979; Dominica, England)
Library of Women’s Literature:Wide Sargasso Sea
From Smile, Please
My Mother
Black/White
Carnival
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980; United States)
Virgin Violeta
African American Women’s Blues
Gertrude “Ma” Rainey (1886–1939; United States)
Louisiana Hoodoo Blues
Prove It on Me Blues
Alberta Hunter (1895–1984; United States)
I Got Myself a Workin' Man
You Gotta Reap What You Sow
Bessie Smith (1898?–1937; United States)
Preachin' the Blues
Poor Man's Blues
Cultural Coordinates: A Blues Life: Billie Holiday (illus.)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960; United States)
Sweat
Nella Larsen (1891–1964; United States)
Sanctuary
Cultural Coordinates: Anti-Lynching Campaigns
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950; United States)
[I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]
From Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree
I [So she came back into his house again]
X [She had forgotten how the August night]
Justice Denied in Massachusetts
From Fatal Interview
XX [Think not, nor for a moment let your mind]
XXVI [Women have loved before as I love now]
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982; United States)
Mother
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967; United States)
Lady with a Lamp
Cultural Coordinates: Margaret Sanger, Abortion, and Birth Control (illus.)
Meridel LeSueur (1900–1996; United States)
Rite of Ancient Ripening
Eudora Welty (1909–2001; United States)
A Still Moment
Tillie Olsen (1912–2007; United States)
Silences
Attia Hosain (1913–1998; India)
After the Storm
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000; United States)
the mother
a song in the front yard
The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
The Lovers of the Poor
the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men
Louise Bennett Coverley (1919–2006; Jamaica, Canada)
Homesickness
America
Doris Lessing (1919– ; Colonial: Iran, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, England)
A Sunrise on the Veld
Hisaye Yamamoto (1921– ; United States)
Seventeen Syllables
Nadine Gordimer (1923– ; South Africa)
Town and Country Lovers: One and Two
Denise