Women's Literature in the 19th Century: Representative Works
WOMEN'S LITERATURE IN THE 19TH CENTURY: REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion (novels) 1818
Miss Marjoribanks (novel) 1866
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre (novel) 1847
Villette (novel) 1853
Aurora Leigh (poetry) 1857
Josephine Butler
The Education and Employment of Women (nonfiction) 1868
Kate Chopin
The Awakening (novel) 1898
Frances Power Cobbe
Essays in the Pursuit of Women (essays) 1863
The Life of Frances Power Cobbe: By Herself (autobiography) 1894
Dinah Craik
Olive (novel) 1850
Romola (novel) 1863
Middlemarch (novel) 1871-72
Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall (novel) 1855
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (nonfiction) 1845
Ruth (novel) 1853
Adam Bede (novel) 1859
The Yellow Wallpaper (novella) 1892
Women and Economics (nonfiction) 1898
Sarah Grimké
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women (letters and essays) 1834
"The Two Offers" (short story) 1859
Sketches of Southern Life (folklore poetry) 1872
The Scarlet Letter (novel) 1859
Marietta Holley
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's (short stories) 1873
A White Heron and other Stories (short stories) 1886
A Country Doctor (novel) 1884
"Tom's Husband" (short story) 1886
The Country of the Pointed Firs (short stories) 1896
Anna Cora Mowatt
Fashion; or, Life in New York (play) 1854
Caroline Sheridan Norton
English Laws for Women (essay) 1854
The Woman's Bible (prose) 1895
"Uncle Lot" (short story) 1834
Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel) 1852
The Pearl of Orr's Island (novel) 1862
Susan Warner
The Wide, Wide World (novel) 1851