QPB Anthology of Women's Writing: From the 14th Century to the Present

Introduction by Susan Cahill JULIAN OF NORWICH from Showings ANNE BRADSTREET To My Dear and Loving Husband In Reference to Her Children, 23 June 1659 MARGARET CAVENDISH The Claspe The Hunting of the Hare APHRA BEHN The Willing Mistress The Adventure of the Black Lady LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU from The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT A Vindication of the Rights of Woman JANE AUSTEN from The Letters of Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice: Chapter I MARY SHELLEY from Mary Shelley's Journal ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING from Sonnets from the Portuguese MARGARET FULLER from Woman in the Nineteenth Century from Dispatches from Europe to the New York Tribune, 1846-1850 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE from Uncle Tom's Cabin HARRIET A. JACOBS from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Childhood; The New Master and Mistress; The Slaves' New Year's Day CHARLOTTE BRONTË from The Letters of Charlotte Brontë EMILY BRONTË Remembrance At Such a Time Come, Walk with Me The Night-Wind GEORGE ELIOT Letter to Robert Evans from Middlemarch: Predule FRANCES E. W. HARPER Eliza Harris The Slave Mother EMILY DICKINSON 254 "Hope" is the thing with feathers— 280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, 292 If your Nerver, deny you— 303 The Soul selects her own Society— 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church— 479 She dealt her pretty words like Blades— 508 I'm ceded—I've stopped being Theirs— 613 They shut me up in Prose— 739 I many times thought Peace had come 829 Ample make this Bed— 917 Love—is anterior to Life— 1075 The Sky is low—the Clouds are mean 1718 Drowning is not so pitiful LOUISA MAY ALCOTT from Little Women SARAH ORNE JEWETT Martha's Lady EDITH WHARTON Souls Belated CHARLOTTE MEW The Changeling Rooms Fame Exspecto Resurrectionem KATHLEEN RAINE Invocation Storm The Unloved Heirloom EUDORA WELTY A Worn Path No Place for You, My Love ELIZABETH BISHOP Roosters from Efforts of Affection: A Memoir of Marianne Moore MARY LAVIN Happiness TILLIE OLSEN I Stand Here Ironing MURIEL RUKEYSER More of a Corpse Than a Woman MAEVE BRENNAN The Springs of Affection MURIEL SPARK The First Year of My Life DORIS LESSING An Old Woman and Her Cat GRACE PALEY Samuel Traveling MARIE PONSOT One Is One The Story After the Story Foreign Correspondent NADINE GORDIMER Something for the Time Being DENISE LEVERTOV What Were They Like? Love Poem Wedding-Ring Contraband FLANNERY O'CONNOR A Late Encounter with the Enemy ANNE SEXTON Ringing the Bells In Celebration of My Uterus Housewife The Abortion MAYA ANGELOU from Shades and Slashes of Light Still I Rise CYNTHIA OZICK The Shawl A Drugstore in Winter ADRIENNE RICH Prospective Immigrants Please Note Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law TONI MORRISON Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1993 ALICE MUNRO The Children Stay EDNA O'BRIEN from Mother Ireland: Escape to England SYLVIA PLATH Kindness The Moon and the Yew Tree MARY OLIVER Wild Geese When Death Comes LUCILLE CLIFTON song at midnight won't you celebrate with me mary miss rosie JUNE JORDAN The Reception In Memoriam: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer MARGE PIERCY Barbie Doll to be of use JOYCE CAROL OATES Christmas Night 1962 ANGELA CARTER Sugar Daddy SHARON OLDS I Got Back to May 1937 Topography Bathing the New Born The Race ALICE WALKER The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It? ANN BEATTIE The Four-Night Fight LESLIE MARMON SILKO Lullaby RITA DOVE Gospel Weathering Out Motherhood SANDRA CISNEROS Woman Hollering Creek GISH JEN Who's Irish? LORRIE MOORE You're Ugly, Too Acknowledgments