Women in the 19th Century: Representative Works
WOMEN IN THE 19TH CENTURY: REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Lydia Becker
Woman's Suffrage Journal [editor] (journal) 1870s
Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon
"A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Together with a Few Observations" (essay) 1854
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (novel) 1847
Villette (novel) 1853
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (novel) 1847
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
"Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race" (essay) 1886
"Why I Became a Woman's Rights Man" (essay) 1881
Adam Bede (novel) 1859
"Degradation of Women in Civilization" (essay) 1808
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (nonfiction) 1845
Mary Barton (novel) 1848
Cranford (novel) 1853
Ruth (novel) 1853
"Women's Political Future" (essay) 1893
Victoria Earle Matthews
"The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman" (essay) 1897
The Subjection of Women (philosophy) 1869
Caroline Norton
The Natural Right of A Mother to the Custody of her Child (essay) 1837
Emma Peterson
Women's Union Journal [editor] (journal) 1870s
"1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention Speech" (speech) 1848
"Solitude of Self" (speech) 1892
Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel) 1852
William Thompson and Anna Wheeler
Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the other Half, Men, To Retain them in Political and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery (pamphlet) 1825
"Colored Men Will Be Masters Over the Women" (speech) 1867
Charlotte Yonge
Heir of Redclyffe (novel) 1853
English Woman's Journal [Englishwoman's Review] (journal) 1857