Fiction, Poetry, and Drama: Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830-1930

Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Roxane Gay
Introduction by Meredith Stabel and Zachary Turpin
A Note on the Text
Kate Chopin
	The Storm (1898)
	An Egyptian Cigarette (1900)
Rebecca Harding Davis
	At Noon (1887)
Emily Dickinson
	For each extatic instant (ca. 1859)
	Come slowly – Eden! (ca. 1860–61)
	He fumbles at your Soul (ca. 1862)
	He touched me, so I live to know (ca. 1862)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
	If I Had Known (1895)
	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)
Angelina Weld Grimké
	El Beso (1923)
	The Want of You (1923)
	The Black Finger (1923)
	At April (1925)
	Trees (1928)
Frances E. W. Harper
	Bible Defense of Slavery (1855)
	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)
Pauline Hopkins
	Talma Gordon (1900)
	From Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self (1902)
	Converting Fanny (1916)
Julia Ward Howe
	From The Hermaphrodite (ca. 1846–47)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
	Smothered Fires (1918)
	Foredoom (1918)
	My Little Dreams (1918)
	Maternity (1922)
	Utopia (1922)
	Credo (1922)
	Fusion (1922)
	When I Rise Up (1922)
Amelia E. Johnson
	From Clarence and Corinne; or, God’s Way (1890)
Maggie Pogue Johnson
	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)
Ann Plato
	Advice to Young Ladies (1841)
	The Natives of America (1841)
	To the First of August (1841)
Sarah Forten Purvis
	The Grave of the Slave (1831)
	An Appeal to Woman (1834)
H. Cordelia Ray
	Niobe (1893)
	Lincoln (1893)
	William Lloyd Garrison (1910)
	Toussaint L’Ouverture (1910)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
	Immediate Emancipation: A Sketch. (1845)
	From Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)
Eloise Bibb Thompson
	Masks, A Story (1927)
Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman
	Lines to Ida B. Wells (1894)
	Clotelle—A Tale of Florida (1902)
	Bashy (1902)
Harriet E. Wilson
	From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859)
Constance Fenimore Woolson
	Miss Grief. (1880)
Zitkala-Sa
	The Soft-Hearted Sioux (1901)
Acknowledgments