Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Roxane Gay
Introduction by Meredith Stabel and Zachary Turpin
A Note on the Text
The Storm (1898)
An Egyptian Cigarette (1900)
At Noon (1887)
For each extatic instant (ca. 1859)
He touched me, so I live to know (ca. 1862)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The Praline Woman (1899)
I Sit and Sew (1918)
Sui Sin Far
A Chinese Ishmael (1899)
A Chinese Boy-Girl (1904)
Fanny Fern
From Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time (1855)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When I Was a Witch (1910)
The Socialist and the Suffragist (1910)
From Herland (1915)
El Beso (1923)
At April (1925)
Trees (1928)
Frances E. W. Harper
Eliza Harris (1855)
Only one night beneath your roof (1859)
Bury Me in a Free Land (1870)
Learning to Read (1891)
A Double Standard (1895)
Talma Gordon (1900)
From Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self (1902)
Converting Fanny (1916)
Julia Ward Howe
From The Hermaphrodite (ca. 1846–47)
Smothered Fires (1918)
Maternity (1922)
Fusion (1922)
When I Rise Up (1922)
Amelia E. Johnson
From Clarence and Corinne; or, God’s Way (1890)
I Wish I Was a Grown Up Man (1910)
Old Maid’s Soliloquy (1910)
Emma Lazarus
Carmela (1875)
Dolores (1876)
Assurance (ca. 1880)
Adah Isaacs Menken
Judith (1868)
Myself (1868)
Genius (1868)
Drifts That Bar My Door (1868)
Miserimus (1868)
Advice to Young Ladies (1841)
The Natives of America (1841)
To the First of August (1841)
The Grave of the Slave (1831)
An Appeal to Woman (1834)
Niobe (1893)
Lincoln (1893)
Toussaint L’Ouverture (1910)
Immediate Emancipation: A Sketch. (1845)
From Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
Masks, A Story (1927)
Lines to Ida B. Wells (1894)
Clotelle—A Tale of Florida (1902)
Bashy (1902)
From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859)
Miss Grief. (1880)
Zitkala-Sa
The Soft-Hearted Sioux (1901)
Acknowledgments