The vintage book of American women writers

Anne Bradstreet

Mary Rowlandson

Judith Sargent Murray

Phillis Wheatley

Susanna Haswell Rowson

Catherine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Caroline Kirkland

Lydia Maria Child

Margaret Fuller

Frances Sargent Locke Osgood

Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher

Fanny Fern

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

Julia Ward Howe

Alice Cary

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

Phoebe Cary

Lucy Larcom

Frances E. W. Harper

Rose Terry Cooke

Emily Dickinson

Helen Hunt Jackson

Rebecca Harding Davis

Louisa May Alcott

Harriet Prescott Spofford

Sarah Piatt

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Emma Lazarus

Sarah Orne Jewett

Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)

Kate Chopin

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Grace King

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Edith Wharton

Sui Sin Far

Mary Austin

Willa Cather

Amy Lowell

Gertrude Stein

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Zitkal-Ša

Susan Glaspell

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Anne Spencer

Elinor Wylie

Anzia Yerzierska

Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)

Marianne Moore

Katherine Anne Porter

Zora Neale Hurston

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Maria Cristina Mena

Dorothy Parker

Genevieve Taggard

Louise Bogan

Meridel Le Sueur

Tess Slesinger

Ann Petry

Elizabeth Bishop

Jean Stafford

James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Bradley Shelton)

Shirley Jackson

Gwendolyn Brooks

Hisaye Yamamoto

Flannery O'Connor

Anne Sexton

Cynthia Ozick

Ursula K. Le Guin

Adrienne Rich

Sylvia Plath

Annie Proulx

Joyce Carol Oates

Maxine Hong Kingston

Amy Tan

Jhumpa Lahiri.