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The Norton anthology of literature by women, the traditions in English, [compiled by] Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, vol. 2

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

The Norton anthology of literature by women

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[compiled by] Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

the traditions in English

[This book] provide[s] a broad chronological overview of their subject -- an overview that enables readers to fully appreciate the female literary traditions that, for several centuries, have coexisted with, revised, and influenced male literary models. With 219 writers (61 new to [this edition, ] this book] chronicles both the evolution in and the revolutions of women's literature in the British Isles, the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Africa, the Caribbean, and other English-speaking regions from the fourteenth century to the present.--Preface

Early-twentieth-century literature: Angel at the grave / Edith Wharton (1862-1937); Walking woman / Mary Austin (1868-1934); Two hanged women / Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946); Death / Dorthy Richardson (1837-1957); Gentle Lena / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Sonnets from a locked box / Anna Hempstead Branch (1875-1937); Trifles / Susan Glaspell (1876-1948); Lost "beautifulness" / Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880?-1970); Three moments in Paris / Mina Loy (1882-1966); Cooboo / Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969); Eagle and the mole / Elinor Wylie (1885-1928); Orchard / H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961); Sojourn in the whale / Marianne Moore (1887-1972); Jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980); Quicksand / Nella Larsen (1891-1964); How it feels to be forcibly fed / Djuna Barnes (1892-1982); One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967); MAnnequin / Jean Rhys (1894?-1979); No Pasarán / Kate O'Brien (1897-1974); On being young, a woman, and colored / Marita Bonner (1899-1971)Annunciation / Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) -- Later twentieth-century literature and contemporary literature: Papa love baby / Stevie Smith (1902-1971); Sonnet to a sister in error / Dilys Laing (1906-1960); Worn path / Eudora Welty (1909-2001); In a café / Mary Lavin (1912-1996); My sisters, O my sisters / May Sarton (1912-1995); Centaur / May Swenson (1913-1989); Women men don't see / James Tiptree Jr. (Alice B. Sheldon, 1915-1987); Dark Blood / Margaret Walker (1915-1998); Stenographers / P.K. Page (b.1916); Malcolm X / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000); Jamaica Oman / Louise Bennett (1919-2006); We are going / Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker, 1920-1993); Seventeen syllables / Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921); My father addresses me on the facts of old age / Grace Paley (b. 1922); Moment before the gun went off / Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923); Witch / Patricia Beer (1924-1999); Good country people / Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964); Making the jam without you / Maxine W. Kumin (b. 1925); I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou (b. 1928); For Saint Peter / U.A. Fanthorpe (b. 1929); Poets in the kitchen / Paule Marshall (b. 1929); Recitatif / Toni Morrison (b. 11931); Disquieting muses / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963); Coal / Audre Lorde (1934-1992); Song for baby-o, unborn / Diane di Prima (b.1934); Stone woman / A.S. Byatt (b. 1936); Royalty / Anita Desai / (b. 1937); Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates / (b. 1938); Company of wolves / Angela Carter (1940-1992); Death of Marilyn Monroe / Sharon Olds (b. 1942)Under the house / Lynn Freed (b. 1945); Colonel / Carolyn Forché (b. 1950); House slave / Rita Dove (b. 1952); Shawl / Louise Erdrich (b. 1954); Forgiveness / Rebecca Brown (b. 1956); Temporary Matter / Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967)