| Original Language | English |
| Imprint | Charles Scribner's Sons, Collier Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishing Company, Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc. |
| About/Subject | Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Hilda Doolittle, Jessie Fauset, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Lillian Hellman, Zora Neale Hurston, Sarah Orne Jewett, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Lowell, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Toni Morrison, Anaïs Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton |
| Consulting Editor | Elaine Showalter |
| General Editor | Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz |
| Copyright Holder | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York, Toronto, Oxford, Singapore, Sydney |
| Copyright | 1991 |
| Pages / Font | xxii, 583 pages |
| ISBN | 0-684-19057-5 |
| Impression/Printing No. | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |
| Library of Congress Call Number | 90-52917 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | PS151.M54 1991 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 810.9'9287'03—dc20 |
| Notes | Copyright © 1991 by Charles Schribner's Sons
Printed in the United States of America |