Women's Worlds: The Mcgraw-Hill Anthology of Women's Writing

List of IllustrationsGeneral IntroductionTHE FOURTEENTH THROUGH SEVENTEENTH CENTURIESA Historical Overview, 1300-1700Women's Place in Society: The DispossessedOwning Their Words: Women's Writing, 1300-1700TimelineJulian of Norwich (c. 1342–c. 1416; England)From Revelation of Divine LoveChapter 3 The illness thus obtained from GodChapter 5 God is all that is goodChapter 59 Wickedness is transformed into blessednessChapter 60 We are brought back and fulfilled by our Mother JesusMargery Kempe (c. 1373–c. 1438; England)From The Book of Margery KempeChapter 1 Margery’s First VisionChapter 11 Margery Reaches a Settlement with Her HusbandChapter 46 Margery’s encounter with the Mayor of LeicesterAnne Askew (c. 1521–1546; England)The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She Was in NewgateFrom The Latter ExaminationThe Sum of my Examination afore the King’s Council at GreenwichCultural Coordinates: NeedleworkQueen Elizabeth I (1533–1603; England)The Dread of Future WoesA Song Made by Her MajestyIsabella Whitney (c. 1540s–c. 1578; England)The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those In It, At Her DepartingMary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621; England)A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds. Thenot and Piers, in Praise of AstraeaAemilia Lanyer (1569–1645; England)From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum /To the Virtuous ReaderEve’s Apology in Defence of WomenThe Description of Cooke-hamCultural Coordinates: Household SpaceLady Margaret Cunningham (c. 1580–c. 1622; Scotland)From A Part of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninghame, Daughter of the Earl of Glencairn, That She Had with Her First Husband, the Master of Evandale [An account of domestic abuse]Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1586–c. 1651; England)From Pamphilia to Amphilanthus:1 [When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove]13 [Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night]15 [Dear famish not what you yourself gave food]16 [Am I thus conquered]22 [Come darkest night]25 [Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun]Lady Anne Clifford (1590–1676; England)From The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford (1616–1619):February 1616 [Meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury]March 1616 [A refusal to capitulate]April 1616 [From London to Knole]May 1616 [Her mother dies]Cultural Coordinates: ScoldsDorothy Leigh (Active c. 1616; England)From The Mothers Blessing:To My Beloved Sons, George, John, and William Leigh, All Things Pertaining to Life and GodlinessChapter 2, The First Cause of Writing Is a Motherly AffectionChapter 13, It Is Great Folly For a Man to Mislike His Own ChoiceElizabeth Brooke Jocelin (c. 1595–1622; England)From The Mother’s Legacy to Her Unborn ChildEpistle Dedicatory: To My Truly Loving and Most Dearly Loved Husband, Turrell JocelinCultural Coordinates: Women’s Community in Childbirth Rooms (illus.)Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672; England, American colonies)From The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in AmericaThe PrologueThe Author to Her BookBefore the Birth of one of her ChildrenIn Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth BradstreetSome Verses upon the Burning of Our House To My Dear and Loving HusbandMargaret Fell Fox (1614–1702; England)From Women’s Speaking Justified [The Church of Christ Is a Woman]Lady Anne Halkett (c. 1622–1699; England)From Memoirs: [Her mother threatens to disown her]Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1674; England)From Philosophical and Physical OpinionsEpistle: To the most famously learnedFrom Philosophical Letters: or, Modest ReflectionsLetter XXXVI [Other Creatures May Be as Wise as Men]Mary Boyle Rich (c. 1624–1678; Ireland, England)From Diary [Events of 1624-43, Including a Complicated Romantic Affair]Cultural Coordinates: Women’s Spiritual Diaries (illus.)Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton (1626–1663; England)From Loose PapersWhen I Lost My Dear Girl KateKatherine Fowler Philips (c. 1631–1664; England)A Married StateUpon the Double Murder of K. Charles IOn the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector PhilipsFriendship’s Mystery, To My Dearest LucasiaTo My Excellent Lucasia, On Our FriendshipOrinda to LucasiaMary Rowlandson (c. 1637–1711; England, American colonies)From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonThe First RemoveThe Third RemoveFrom The Twentieth RemoveAphra Behn (c. 1640–1689; England)The RoverCultural Coordinates: Restoration Actresses (illus.)Anne Killigrew (c. 1660–1685; England)A Farewell to Worldly JoysUpon the Saying That My Verses Were Made by AnotherThe DiscontentAnne Finch (1661–1720; England)A Letter to DaphnisThe IntroductionArdelia to MelancholyTo the NightingaleThe ApologyA Nocturnal ReverieCultural Coordinates: Menstruation and MisogynyJane Sharp (Active c. 1671; England)From The Midwives BookOf the Fashion and Greatness of the Womb, and of the Parts It Is Made OfTHE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYTIMELINE: EIGHTEENTH CENTURYLady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762; England)From Turkish Embassy LettersLetter XXVII [A Visit to a Turkish Bath]Letter XLI [Sultana Halfise]Eliza Haywood (c.1693–1756; England)The Dangers of TeaMary Leapor (1722–1746: England)Crumble HallAn Essay on WomanThe HeadacheMercy Otis Warren (1728–1814; United States)An Address to the Inhabitants of the United StatesJanet Schaw (c. 1734–1801; Scotland)From Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being a Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies [Society in Antigua] [A Visit to Olovaze]Cultural Coordinates: At Sea (illus.)Mary Collier (Active 1739–1760; England)The Woman’s LabourAnna Laetitia Akin Barbauld (1743–1825; England)The Rights of WomanTo a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become VisibleWashing-DayAbigail Adams (1744–1818; United States)From The Adams Family Correspondence [The Nature of Woman’s Experience] [Remember the Ladies] [Education in the New Republic]Cultural Coordinates: Bluestockings (illus.)Hannah More (1745–1833; England)From Strictures on a Modern System of Female EducationChapter 1, An Address to Women of Rank and FortuneThe Black Slave TradeThe White Slave TradeCultural Coordinates: The Hoop-Petticoat (illus.)Frances Burney (d’Arblay) (1752–1840; England)From The Early Journals and Letters of Frances Burney [A Young Writer’s Diary] [The Publication of Evelina]From Diary and Letters of Madame d’Arblay [Life at Court of George III]From Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the WorldLetter X [Evelina arrives in London]Letter XI [Evelina at the Ball]Letter XII [A Trip to Ranelagh]Letter XV [A Dangerous Walk in Vauxhall]Cultural Coordinates: Shopping (illus.)Phillis Wheatley (c. 1754–1784; United States)On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaOn the Death of the Reverend Mr. George WhitefieldTo S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His WorksTo the Excellent George WashingtonJane Cave (Active c. 1786; England)Written by the Desire of a Lady, on an Angry, Petulant Kitchen-MaidWritten a Few Hours Before the Birth of a ChildEliza Fay (1756–1816; England)From Original Letters from IndiaLetter XIV [Madras]Letters XV–XVI, XX [Calcutta]Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800; England)London’s Summer MorningJanuary, 1795Cultural Coordinates: Prostitution (illus.)Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797; England)From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral SubjectsAuthor’s IntroductionChapter 2, The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character DiscussedChapter 9, Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in SocietyCultural Coordinates: Breastfeeding and the Wet NurseJanet Little (1759–1813; Scotland)Given to a Lady Who Asked Me to Write a PoemMaria Edgeworth (1767–1849; Ireland, England)From Letters for Literary LadiesLetters of Julia and CarolineDorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855; England)From The Grasmere Journals[A Brother’s Departure, May 14, 1800][Daffodils, April 1802][Good Friday, April 16, 1802][William Marries, September 24, 1802]Mary Birkett (1774–1817; Ireland)A Poem on the African Slave TradeCultural Coordinates: The Tea Table (illus.)Mary Prince (1788–c. 1833; Bermuda, Turk Islands, Antigua, England)The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by HerselfElizabeth Hands (Active 1789; England)Written, Originally Extempore, on Seeing a Mad Heifer Run through the Village Where the Author LivesA Poem on the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and ReadAnna Maria Falconbridge (Active 1790s; England)From Two Voyages to Sierra Leone[A Trip to Bance Island]THE NINETEENTH CENTURYTIMELINE: NINETEENTH CENTURYCultural Coordinates: The First Australian Woman WriterSusanna Rowson (1762–1824; England, United States)Charlotte TempleCultural Coordinates: The Corset, or Why Heroines Faint so Often (illus.)Jane Austen (1775–1817; England)From Northanger AbbeyChapters 4–5 [Catherine and Isabella Become Friends]Library of Women’s Literature: Pride and PrejudiceCultural Coordinates: Cassandra’s Sketch and “Gentle Jane” (illus.)Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867; United States)Cacoethes ScribendiLydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865; United States)To a Shred of LinenUnspoken LanguageEveFelicia Dorothea Brown Hemans (1793–1835; England)England’s DeadBring FlowersCasabiancaMary Shelley (1797–1851; England, Italy)From FrankensteinChapters 11-17 [The Monster’s Narrative]Sojourner Truth (c.1797–1883; United States)From The Narrative of Sojourner TruthHer Birth and ParentageAccommodationsHer Brothers and SistersSojourner Truth’s “Ar’n’t I a Woman” Speech (as reported in the Anti-Slavery Bugle)Sojourner Truth’s “Ar’n’t I a Woman” Speech (as recorded in Reminiscences of Frances D. Gage)Cultural Coordinates: Cartes de Visite (illus.)Harriet Martineau (1802–1876; England)From Morals of SlaveryLydia Maria Child (1802–1880; United States)From An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called AfricansPrefaceChapter 1, Brief History of Negro Slavery—Its Inevitable Effect upon All Concerned in ItFrom Letters from New YorkLetter XXXIV [Women’s Rights]Susanna Moodie (1803–1885; Canada)From Roughing it in the Bush [The Adventures of One Night]Cultural Coordinates: How Did They Do It? The Mechanics of Writing (illus.)Angelina Grimké (Weld) (1805–1879; United States)From Appeal to the Christian Women of the SouthElizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861; England, Italy)From Sonnets from the PortugueseXIV [If thou must love me, let it be for nought]XLIII [How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.]From Aurora LeighBook I [Aurora’s Education]Frances Dana Gage (1808–1880; United States)Tales of Truth, No.1Margaret Fuller (1810–1850; United States)From Summer on the LakesSummer on the LakesTo a FriendChapter 1 [Gateway to the West: Niagara Falls]A Short Essay on CriticsFrom Woman in the Nineteenth CenturyPreface [Woman, Present and Future]Cultural Coordinates: Niagara Falls (illus.)Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865; England)The Three Eras of Libbie MarshHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896; United States)From Uncle Tom’s CabinChapter 1, In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of HumanityChapter 5, Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing OwnersChapter 7, The Mother’s StruggleChapter 14, EvangelineChapter 22, “The Grass Withereth—The Flower Fadeth”Chapter 32, Dark PlacesChapter 40, The MartyrCultural Coordinates: The Realism of Stereotypes (illus.)Frances (Fanny) Locke Osgood (1811–1850; United States)Ellen Learning to WalkThe Little HandHe Bade Me Be HappyForgive and ForgetA ReplyCultural Coordinates: The Invention of the Ladies’ Magazine: Godey’s Lady’s Book (illus.)Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811–1872; United States)Hints to Young WivesMrs. Stowe’s Uncle TomShall Women Vote?The Working Girls of New YorkElizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902; United States)Declaration of SentimentsThe Solitude of SelfCultural Coordinates: The Seneca Falls Convention, July 19–20, 1848 (illus.)Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855; England) [We wove a web in childhood]Library of Women’s Literature: Jane EyreCultural Coordinates: Phrenology (illus.)Emily Brontë (1818–1848; England)A.G.A: To the BluebellSong [O between distress and pleasure]Love and Friendship [Shall Earth no more inspire thee]A.G. to G.S.To Imagination [No coward soul is mine]Women Composers of Hymns, 1840–1899Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805–1848; England)Nearer, My God, to TheeAnne Brontë (1820–1849; England)The Narrow WayJulia Ward Howe (1819–1910; United States)Battle Hymn of the RepublicChristina Rossetti (1830–1894; England)In the Bleak MidwinterKatharine Lee Bates (1859–1929; United States)O Beautiful for Spacious SkiesHarriet Jacobs (c. 1813–1897; United States)From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by HerselfPreface by the AuthorIntroduction by the EditorChapter 1, ChildhoodChapter 2, The New Master and MistressChapter 5, The Trials of GirlhoodChapter 10, A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s LifeChapter 21, The Loophole of RetreatChapter 41, Free at LastCultural Coordinates: Reward for the Capture of Harriet Jacobs (illus.)Susan Warner (1819–1885; United States)From The Wide, Wide WorldChapter 1 [Ellen and Her Mother]Chapter 3 [Ellen Goes Shopping]George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819–1880; England)Silly Novels by Lady NovelistsCultural Coordinates: Spirit Rappers and Spiritualism (illus.)Florence Nightingale (1820–1910; England)From CassandraII [Intellect]IV [Moral Activity and Marriage]VII [The Dying Woman]Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886; United States)From Civil War JournalFebruary 18, 1861 [I wanted them to fight and stop talking]February 19, 1861 [We have to meet tremendous odds]Harriet E. Wilson (1825?–1900?; United States)From Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free BlackPrefaceChapter 1, Mag Smith, My MotherChapter 2, My Father’s DeathChapter 3, A New Home for MeCatherine Helen Spence (1825–1910; Australia)From Clara MorisonChapter 8, At ServiceFrances E. W. Harper (1825–1911; United Sates)Eliza HarrisThe Slave MotherAunt Chloe’s PoliticsThe Two OffersWoman’s Political FutureDinah Mulock Craik (1826–1887; England)From A Woman’s Thoughts About WomenChapter 1, Something to DoHelen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885; United States)My TenantsSeptemberThe Victory of PatienceChanceEmily Dickinson (1830–1886; United States)6 [Frequently the woods are pink]14 [One Sister have I in our house]216 [Safe in their Alabaster Chambers]241 [I like a look of Agony]249 [Wild Nights---Wild Nights!]252 [I can wade Grief]258 [There’s a certain Slant of light]280 [I felt a Funeral, in my brain]288 [I’m Nobody! Who are you?]341 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes]365 [Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?]441 [This is my letter to the World]444 [It feels shame to be Alive]579 [I had been hungry, all the Years]656 [The name—of it—is Autumn]709 [Publication—is the Auction]754 [My Life has stood—a Loaded Gun]812 [A light exists in Spring]912 [Peace is a fiction of our Faith]986 [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]1101 [Between the form of Life and Life]1129 [Tell all the Truth but tell it slant]1263 [There is no Frigate like a Book]1580 [We shun it ere it comes]LettersTo Susan Gilbert (Dickinson), early June 1852To T. W. Higginson, 7 June 1862To T. W. Higginson, February 1885Christina Rossetti (1830–1894; England)A BirthdayA Better ResurrectionGoblin MarketIn an Artist’s StudioRebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910; United States)Life in the Iron-MillsAnna Leonowens (1831–1914; England, Colonial: India, Thailand, and Canada)From The Romance of the HaremChapter 2, Tuptim: A Tragedy of the HaremLouisa May Alcott (1832–1888; United States)A Double Tragedy: An Actor’s StoryLibrary of Women’s Literature: Little WomenHannah Crafts (Active 1850s, United States)From The Bondswoman’s NarrativePrefaceChapter 1, In ChildhoodIsabella Beeton (1836–1865; England)From Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management [Sample Recipes]: Lark Pie (An Entrée), Boiled Asparagus, Christmas Plum Pudding (Very Good) [Sample Bills of Fare]: Plain Family Dinners for January [Sample Sections from “Household Management”]: Duties of the Valet, The Wet-NurseCultural Coordinates: Level Measures (illus)Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (c. 1844–1891; Paiute: United States)From Life Among the PiutesChapter 1, First Meeting of Piutes and WhitesEmma Lazarus (1849–1887; United States)In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport1492The New ColossusCultural Coordinates: The Sewing Machine (illus)Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909; United States)A White HeronKate Chopin (1850–1904; United States)The AwakeningRosa Praed (1851–1935; Australia)From Policy and PassionAn Australian ExplorerMary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930; United States)A PoetessPandita Ramabai Saraswati (1858–1922; India)From The High Caste Hindu WomanChapter 5 [Suttee]Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935; United States)The Yellow WallpaperCultural Coordinates: Nervousness and the Rest CureMary Kingsley (1862–1900; England)From Travels in West Africa [A West African River and a Canoe]THE TWENTIETH THROUGH THE TWENTY–FIRST CENTURIESTIMELINE: TWENTIETH–TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIESAnnie Besant (1847–1933; England, India)From A Nation’s Rights [The Foundations of Rights]Cultural Coordinates: The Bra (illus.)Edith Wharton (1862–1937; United States, France)Roman FeverLibrary of Women’s Literature: The House of MirthEdith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865–1914; United States)In the Land of the FreeCultural Coordinates: Chinese Women and U.S. ImmigrationCornelia Sorabji (1866–1954; India, England)From India CallingChapter 2, Preparation and Equipment: in India and EnglandKatherine Mayo (1867–1940; United States)From Mother IndiaChapter 8, Mother IndiaCultural Coordinates: The Memsahib (illus)Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945; United States)Jordan’s EndWilla Cather (1873–1947; United States)A Wagner MatineeGertrude Stein (1874–1946; United States, France)AdaPreciosillaSusie AsadoFrom Patriarchal Poetry[Their origin and their history]Cultural Coordinates: Two Women Writers in Paris, Never Meeting (illus.)Alice Dunbar–Nelson (1875–1935; United States)Sister JosephaI Sit and SewZitkala Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876–1938; Sioux: United States)From School Days of an Indian GirlThe Cutting of My Long HairWhy I Am a PaganCultural Coordinates: Indian Boarding Schools (illus.)Margaret Cousins (1875–1954; Ireland, India)From The Awakening of Asian WomanhoodChapter 2, Indian Womanhood: A National AssetSarojini Naidu (1879–1949; India)The Gift of IndiaThe Indian GypsyBangle-sellersRokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932; India)Sultana’s DreamCultural Coordinates: Purdah (illus.)Mourning Dove (Humishuma/Christine Quintasket) (1882?–1936; Colville-Okanaga: United States)From Cogwea, the Half-Blood [The Indian Dancers]Virginia Woolf (1882–1941; England)Kew GardensMrs. Dalloway in Bond StreetLibrary of Women’s Literature: Mrs. DallowayFrom A Room of One's Own [Shakespeare’s Sister] [Peroration: Women Write!]A Haunted HouseSusan Glaspell (1876–1948; United States)TriflesAnzia Yezierska (c. 1885–1921; Poland/Russia, United States)Soap and WaterCultural Coordinates: Sweatshops (illus)Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (1885–1962; Denmark, Kenya)The Blank PageH. D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886–1961; United States, Switzerland)From The Walls Do Not Fall9 [Thoth, Hermes, the stylus]10 [But we fight for life]From Tribute to the Angels8 [Now polish the crucible]9 [Bitter, bitter jewel]11 [O swiftly, re-light the flame]12 [Swiftly re-light the flame]13 [“What is the jewel colour?” ]19 [We see her visible and actual]20 [Invisible, indivisible Spirit]21 [There is no rune nor riddle]23 [We are part of it]28 [I had been thinking of Gabriel]35 [So she must have been pleased with us]36 [Ah (you say), this is Holy wisdom]39 [But nearer than Guardian Angel]From The Flowering of the Rod5 [Satisfied, unsatisfied]6 [So I would rather drown, remembering]Marianne Moore (1887–1972; United States)The FishThe Paper NautilusIn Distrust of MeritsWilla Muir (1890–1970; Scotland)From Imagined CornersChapter 3 [Elizabeth Ramsay and Elizabeth Shand]Jean Rhys (1890–1979; Dominica, England)Library of Women’s Literature:Wide Sargasso SeaFrom Smile, PleaseMy MotherBlack/WhiteCarnivalKatherine Anne Porter (1890–1980; United States)Virgin VioletaAfrican American Women’s BluesGertrude “Ma” Rainey (1886–1939; United States)Louisiana Hoodoo BluesProve It on Me BluesAlberta Hunter (1895–1984; United States)I Got Myself a Workin' ManYou Gotta Reap What You SowBessie Smith (1898?–1937; United States)Preachin' the BluesPoor Man's BluesCultural Coordinates: A Blues Life: Billie Holiday (illus.)Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960; United States)SweatNella Larsen (1891–1964; United States)SanctuaryCultural Coordinates: Anti-Lynching CampaignsEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950; United States) [I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed]From Sonnets from an Ungrafted TreeI [So she came back into his house again]X [She had forgotten how the August night]Justice Denied in MassachusettsFrom Fatal InterviewXX [Think not, nor for a moment let your mind]XXVI [Women have loved before as I love now]Djuna Barnes (1892–1982; United States)MotherDorothy Parker (1893–1967; United States)Lady with a LampCultural Coordinates: Margaret Sanger, Abortion, and Birth Control (illus.)Meridel LeSueur (1900–1996; United States)Rite of Ancient RipeningEudora Welty (1909–2001; United States)A Still MomentTillie Olsen (1912–2007; United States)SilencesAttia Hosain (1913–1998; India)After the StormGwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000; United States)the mothera song in the front yardThe Sundays of Satin-Legs SmithThe Lovers of the Poorthe white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like menLouise Bennett Coverley (1919–2006; Jamaica, Canada)HomesicknessAmericaDoris Lessing (1919– ; Colonial: Iran, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, England)A Sunrise on the VeldHisaye Yamamoto (1921– ; United States)Seventeen SyllablesNadine Gordimer (1923– ; South Africa)Town and Country Lovers: One and TwoDenise Levertov (1923–1997; England, United States)Advent 1966TenebraeWitnessMitsuye Yamada (1923– ; Japan, United States)P.O.W.CincinnatiAnother ModelMirror MirrorBeryl Gilroy (1924–2001; Guyana, England)From Black Teacher[Inside London Schools]Anne Ranasinghe (1925– ; Germany, England, Sri Lanka)Auschwitz from ColomboNayantara Sahgal (1927– ; India)From Prison and Chocolate Cake[Walking with Gandhi]Maya Angelou (1928– ; United States)From I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[Words]Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (1928– ; England, Kenya)From Coming to BirthChapter 1 [Lost in the City]Anne Sexton (1928–1974; United States)Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely WomanSylvia’s DeathThe Ballad of the Lonely MasturbatorCynthia Ozick (1928– ; United States)The ShawlUrsula Le Guin (1929– ; United States)The Space CroneAdrienne Rich (1929– ; United States)Diving into the WreckA Woman Dead in her FortiesFrom Twenty-One Love PoemsI [Wherever in this city, screens flicker]XI [Every peak is a crater]It Is the Lesbian in Us . . .Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily DickinsonLorraine Hansberry (1930–1965; United States)Library of Women’s Literature: A Raisin in the SunGrace Ogot (1930– ; Kenya)ElizabethToni Morrison (1931– ; United States)RecitatifLibrary of Women’s Literature: BelovedNobel LectureAlice Munro (1931– ; Canada)Dance of the Happy ShadesSylvia Plath (1932–1963; United States, England)MetaphorsDaddyArielLady LazarusThree Women: A Poem for Three VoicesCultural Coordinates: The Pill (illus.)Audre Lord