The Aunt Lute ANTH OLOGY
if U.S.
WOMEN WRITERS
CONTENTS
v Acknowledgments
XXIII
Preface
ANNE HUTCHINSON 1591?-1643
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The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown
.from A Report of the Trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson Before the Church in
Boston, March, 1638
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612-1672
The Prologue
In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess Q!teen Elizabeth of Happy
Memory
29 The Author to Her Book
30 The F1esh and the Spirit
32 To My Dear and Loving Husband
33 Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th,
1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper
34 .from Meditations Divine and Moral
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35
MARY EASTY 1634-1692
36
42
MARY WHITE ROWLANDSON 1637?-1711?
42
60
The Life of Mary Read
ANNE BONNY 1697?-?
103
107
The Declaration & Confession of Esther Rodgers
MARY READ ?-1720
98
102
The Examination of TItuba
ESTHER RODGERS 1680-1701
87
98
The Journal of Madam Knight
TITUBA N .D.
78
87
.from A Narrative of the Captivity and the Restauration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT 1666-1727
61
78
Mary Easty
The Life of Anne Bonny
PATIENCE BOSTON 1711-1735
107
A Faithful Narrative of the Wicked Life and Remarkable Conversion of
Patience Boston
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ANONYMOUS
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HANNAH GRIFFITTS 1727-1817
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173
Interview with Charity Bowery
JARENA LEE 1783-?
222
237
Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom
CHARITY BOWERY 1782-?
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221
Life, Last Words, and Dying Confession of Rachel Wall
SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON 1762-1824
187
217
Address
RACHEL WALL 1760-1789
184
186
The African Chief
DEBORAH SAMPSON GANNETT 1760-1827
176
183
On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA
On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age
Letter to John Thornton
Letter to Samson Occom
SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON 1759-1846
174
175
On the Equality of the Sexes
PHILLIS WHEATLEY CA. 1753-1784
170
173
from The Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey
JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY 1751-1820
163
170
A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey, to Her Niece, upon
Her Marriage
ABIGAIL ABBOT BAILEY 1746-1815
135
162
Bars Fight
ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON 1736-1801
132
135
To the Hon. J. Winthrop, Esq.
LUCY TERRY PRINCE 1730-1821
131
132
The Female Patriots
MERCY OTIS WARREN 1728-1814
127
131
Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to be Controll'd!
Impromptu, on Reading an Essay on Education
A Lady's Adieu to her Tea-Table
The Life and Religious Experience ofJarena Lee, A Coloured Lady,
Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel
MUSKINGHAM COUNTY FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
237
Petition of Ladies, Resident in the State of Ohio
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ELIZA LESLIE 1787-1858
239
Lucy Nelson; or, The Boy Girl
Directions for Cookery in Its Various Branches
242 .from
245
EMMA WILLARD 1787-1870
An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the
Legislature of New-York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education
245 .from
255
SARAH JOSEPHA HALE 1788-1879
255
269
270
CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK 1789-1867
271
280
289
The Lloyds
.from The Ladies' New Book of Cookery
Cacoethes Scribendi
The Irish Girl
THE LOWELL OFFERING
Factory Girls
Old Maids and Old Bachelors
295 Ann and Myself
298 Letters from Susan
289
292
301
ANN GARRISON 1791-?
301
303
LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY 179 1- 186 5
303
304
305
306
307
308
310
311
313
314
317
.from Familiar Lectures on Botany
CATHERINE OGEE WYAN AKWUT OKWA
324
328
Dress of Women
ALMIRA HART LINCOLN PHELPS 1793-1884
321
324
Death of an Infant
The Suttee
To the First Slave Ship
The Cherokee Mother
Indian Names
To a Shred of Linen
Laura Bridgman
Fallen Forests
Erin's Daughter
.from Letters to Mothers
SARAH GRIMKE 1792-1873
317
321
Ann Garrison
MARIA GOWEN BROOKS 1794-1845
328
330
N.D.
Confessions of Catherine agee Wyan Akwut Okwa; or, The Woman of
the Blue-Robed Cloud, the Prophetess of Chegoimegon
Farewell to Cuba
.from Zophiel, A Poem
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CAROLINE HOWARD GILMAN 1794-1888
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337
SOJOURNER TRUTH CA. 1797-1883
337
338
The Lost Mail
Speech, Delivered at the 1851 Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio
CATHARINE E . BEECHER 1800-1878
.from Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education
.from An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of
American Females
353 .from Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies At Home
and At School
356 .from The American Woman's Home (with Harriet Beecher Stowe)
339
341
361
CAROLINE LEE WHITING HENTZ 1800-1856
361
The Blind Girl's Story
373 JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT
(BAME'WA-WAS-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY)
1800-1841
Invocation to My Maternal Grandfather on Hearing His Descent from
Chippewa Ancestors Misrepresented
375 Origin of the Miscodeed; or, The Maid of Taquimenon
374
377
CAROLINE MATILDA KIRKLAND 1801-1864
377
386
MARIA ANTONIA CASTRO 1802-?
386
389
395
413
413
To-To E. O. S.
"Science."
ANGELINA GRIMKE: WELD 1805-1879
414
418
Lecture, Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, Sept. 21, 1832
SARAH WHITMAN 1803-1878
412
414
.from Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward
MARIA W_ MILLER STEWART 1803-1879
409
412
Interview with Mary Pope
MARIA J. MCiNTOSH 1803-1878
402
408
.from The Mother's Book
.from Letters from New-York
MARY POPE N.D.
400
402
A California Lion and a Pirate
LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD 1802-1880
389
400
Mrs_ Pell's Pilgrimage
Address at Pennsylvania Hall
EMMA CATHERINE EMBURY 1806-1863
418
420
Madame de StaeI
The Count and the Cousin
CONTENTS
425
ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH 1806-1893
426
428
428
429
MARGARET FULLER 1810-1850
430
431
433
444
448
449
450
451
452
456
462
462
464
464
465
466
467
477
485
The Lumley Autograph
.from California In-Doors and Out
HARRIET JACOBS CA. 1813-1897
530
534
.from Widow Bedott Papers
ELIZA W. FARNHAM 1813-1864
511
529
The Ravages of a Carpet
The Minister's Housekeeper
.from The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER 1813-1894
493
510
The Daisy's Mistake
The Lily's Delusion
To the Spirit of Poetry
He Bade Me Be Happy
Ah! Woman Still
Caprice
Forgive and Forget
Woman
FRANCES MIRIAM BERRY WHITCHER 1811?-1851
490
493
1811- 18 7 1
Advice to Ladies
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
Borrowed Light
Important for Married Men
Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom
Thoms for the Rose
The Working-Girls of New York
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811-1896
469
490
(SARAH PAYSON WILLIS)
FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD 1811- 18 50
460
469
Literary Ladies
The Hindoo Slave
FANNY FERN
447
460
Educate Men and Women As Souls
Household Nobleness
ANN SOPHIA STEPHENS 1810-1886
434
447
The Drowned Mariner
Strength from the Hills
The Poet
.from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ELIZA DuPUY 1814- 1881
534
The Partners
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SARAH LOUISA FORTEN 1814-1883
541
542
542
PENNY PATCH
542
549
558
603
605
605
606
607
607
Fashion! or, Life in New York
E.D.E.N . SOUTHWORTH 1819-1899
648
656
Coquette et Froide
Mother Mind
Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Rouge Gagne
The Tea-Party
To the Critic
Appeal to Womanhood throughout the World
ANNA CORA MOWATT 1819-1870
609
647
N.D .
Rosa Barnwell
JULIA WARD HOWE 1819-1910
604
608
Wenona; or, The Virgin's Feast
ROSA BARNWELL
602
603
N.D.
A Spanish Girl's Journey from Monterey to Los Angeles
MARY H. EASTMAN 1818-1887
596
602
.from Marital Power Exemplified
AMALIA SIBRIAN
594
596
The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman
ELIZABETH PACKARD 1816-1897
588
594
The Solitude of Self
BETHANY VENEY I8I5?-?
572
588
The Angel Over the Right Shoulder; or, The Beginning of a New Year
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON 1815-1902
565
572
N.D .
A Carnival Ball at Monterey in 1829
A Glimpse of Domestic Life in 1827
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS 1815-1852
559
565
N.D.
Lilly Martin's Three Dollar Bill
BRIGIDA BRIONES
556
559
N.D.
The Finishing Seminary for Young Ladies
ANNA G-549
556
The Grave of the Slave
An Appeal to Woman
Winny: A Child's Story
AMELIA WELBY 1819-1852
657
On Entering the Mammoth Cave
CONTENTS
660
MARY B . HORNE N.D.
660
671
679
681
682
683
685
686
721
(SARA JANE CLARKE LIpPINCOTT) 1823-1904
My First Hunting and Fishing
755
756
756
757
759
1823-1903
Collected by a Valetudinarian
PHOEBE CARY
754
1822-1912
.from The United-States Law, and Some Thoughts on Human Rights
ELIZABETH STODDARD
736
753
1821-1853
Africa
An Opium Fantasy
GRACE GREENWOOD
731
736
1821-1910
.from The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education
of Girls
CAROLINE WELLS HEALEY DALL
722
731
Declaration of Sentiments
MARIA WHITE LOWELL
718
722
1820-?
.from A Hair-Dresser's Experience in High Life
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL
706
718
Lines, Written Upon Being Examined in School Studies for the
Preparation of a Teacher
The Natives of America
To the First of August
SENECA FALLS WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION
703
706
1820-?
ELIZA POTTER
688
703
1820-1871
Pictures of Memory
Morna
The Bridal Veil
The Sea-Side Cave
To the Muse
ANN PLATO
684
687
The First Glass; or, The Power of Woman's Influence
ALICE CARY
680
684
The Darktown Bicycle Club Scandal
NELLIE H . BRADLEY N . D.
672
679
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1824-1871
The Christian Woman
Samuel Brown
The Wife
The Hunter and the Doe
Was He Henpecked?
Do You Blame Her?
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LUCY LARCOM 1824-1893
761
763
765
766
767
ANNA BARTLETT WARNER 1824-1915
767
779
779
780
793
795
796
797
798
799
801
803
804
806
808
Marrying a Planter
LADIES OF STEUBENVILLE , OHIO
840
841
Captive
Blue-Beard's Closet
Grit
ALICE B . NEAL HAVEN 1827-1863
821
839
Bible Defence of Slavery
Bury Me in a Free Land
Vashti
Aunt Chloe's Politics
Learning to Read
A Double Standard
An Appeal to My Countrywomen
The Ragged Stocking
The Mission of the Flowers
The Colored People in America
ROSE TERRY COOKE 1827-1892
806
821
Knights of the Cross
FRANCES E .W. HARPER 1825-1911
794
805
Brahrnic
Pickle Peppers
Victuals and Drink.
CAROLINE CHESEBRO' 1825-1873
782
793
Two Picnics
A . D .T. WHITNEY 1824-1906
779
782
A Loyal Woman's No
Weaving
A Little Old Girl
Fallow
Memorial
EMILY DICKINSON 1830-1886
842
842
842
843
843
844
844
845
845
846
846
(236) Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
(256) The Robin's my Criterion for Tune
(269) Wrld nights - Wrld nights
(282) We play at Paste
(307) A solemn thing - it was - I said
(320) There's a certain Slant of light
(340) I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
(359) A bird came down the walk
(373) This World is not conclusion
(407) One need not be a chamber - to be Haunted
(409) The Soul selects her own Society
CONTENTS
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847
847
848
849
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850
850
850
851
851
852
852
852
853
853
853
854
870
876
877
878
879
879
880
880
881
881
895
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Marcia
Married People
METTA VICTORIA VICTOR 1831-1885
920
933
Money-Making for Ladies
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS 1831-1910
906
920
El Cinco de Mayo (On the Fifth of May)
Homenajes de gratitud (Homages of Gratitude)
ELLA RODMAN CHURCH 1831-?
900
906
My Strawberry
Poppies on the Wheat
Spinning
The Way to Sing
Form
Vintage
Esther
The Heart of a Rose
Vashti
from A Century of Dishonor
ZARAGOZA CLUB POETS
893
900
Seven Years
from Eve's Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother
HELEN HUNT JACKSON 1830-1885
875
892
(445) They shut me up in Prose
(477) He fumbles at your Soul
(479) Because I could not stop for Death
(627) I think I was enchanted
(675) What Soft - Cherubic Creatures
(764) My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun
(772) Essential Oils - are wrung
(804) Ample make this Bed
(817) This Consciousness that is aware
(905) Split the Lark - and you'll fmd the Music
(1096) A narrow fellow in the grass
(1107) My Cocoon tightens - Colors teaze
(1263) Tell all the truth but tell it slant
(1489) A Route of Evanescence
(1491) To see the Summer Sky
(1551) ''Tis seasons since the Dimpled War
(1743) On my volcano grows the Grass
MARION HARLAND (MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE) 1830-1922
854
875
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832-1888
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942
Perilous Play
Pansies
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MARY
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GAIL HAMILTON (MARY ABIGAIL DODGE) 1833-1896
967
970
Race Prejudice
ALICE B. STOCKHAM 1833-1912
970
976
E. WALKER 1832-1919
from Hit
from Tokology
ANNIE FIELDS 1834-1915
Endymion
Herb Yarrow
978 Home
978 The Poet's Choice
977
977
979
SUSAN COOLIDGE (SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) 1835-1905
A Blind Singer
Gulf-Stream
981 My Rights
983 November
983 Prelude
979
981
984
ADAH ISAACS MENKEN 18 35?-1868
Answer Me
Infelix
987 Judith
985
986
989
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD 1835-1921
989
Her Story
1002 CELIA THAXTER 1835-1894
Land-Locked
Alone
1003 The Minute-Guns
1004 Two Sonnets
1002
1003
1005 MARY
1005
L. DAY 1836-?
.from Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl
1008 JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE (MARIETTA HOLLEY) 1836-1926
1009
Wimmen's Speah
1016 SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT 1836-1919
1016
1017
1018
1018
101 9
1020
1021
1022
To
Giving Back the Flower
Stone for a Statue
C>verin Kentucky
The Black Princess
The Palace-Burner
A Neighborhood Incident
A Child's Party
CONTENTS
1026 VICTORIA WOODHULL 1838-1927
1026
ftom And the Truth shall make you Free
1036 HELEN CAMPBELL 1839-1918
1036
1041
.from Prisoners of Poverty
FRANCES E. WILLARD 1839-1898
1042
Temperance and Home Protection
1048 CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON 1840-1894
1048
Miss Grief
D . COOLBRITH 1841-1928
1063 Helen HuntJackson
1064 The Captive of the White City
1066 The Mariposa Lily
1066 Woman
1063 INA
1068 SARAH EMMA EDMONDS 1841-1898
1068
ftom Nurse and Spy in the Union Army
1074 LORETA JANETA VELAZQUEZ 1842-?
1075
ftom The Woman in Battle
1095 SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS (THOCMETONY) 1844?-1891
1095
ftom Life Among the Piutes
1115 ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (WARD) 1844-1911
1116
What Did She See With?
1129 FANNY KELLY 1845-1904
1129
ftom Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
1137 MARY HALLOCK FOOTE 1847-1938
1137
The Cascarone Ball
1142 SARAH ORNE JEWETT 1849-1909
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The Flight of Betsey Lane
The Town Poor
1162 EMMA LAZARUS 1849-1887
1163
1164
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1165
1167
1167
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1169
1170
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How Long?
In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport
Sympathy
The South
Echoes
The Crowing of the Red Cock
The Feast of Lights
1492
The New Colossus
ftom An Epistle to the Hebrews
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1173
1173
1173
1174 KATE CHOPIN
1174
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1849-1916
Niobe
Life
Self-Mastery
1851-1904
Desiree's Baby
Athenaise
1850-1922
The "Hamt" That Walks Chilhowee
1199 MARY NOAILLES MURFREE
1199
1213 OCTAVE THANET (ALICE FRENCH)
1213
1225 MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
1225
1234
1850-1934
Half a Curse
1852-1930
A Poetess
The Long Arm
18p-?
Lizzie Gibson
1254 LIZZIE GIBSON
1254
1854-1925
Losses
The Deep-Sea Pearl
Anima Urbis
The Etherial Hunger
1255 EDITH THOMAS
1255
1256
1257
1257
1855?-1950
Books That Have Hindered Me
1258 AGNES REPPLIER
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1262 LlZETTE WOODWORTH REESE
1263
1263
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1264
1264 KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
1265
1856-1935
Early September
In Time of Grief
Telling the Bees
White Flags
1856-1923
Children's Rights
1858?-1964
The Status of Woman in America
1273 ANNA JULIA COOPER
1273
1280 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
1281
1282
1283
1861-1920
To a Most Comely Lady
A Talisman
1294 LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
1294
1295
1860-1935
The Anti-Suffragists
Homes
The Yellow Wall-Paper
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1296
1296
1297
1297
1298
Nocturne
Open, Time
Spring Nightfall
Emily Bronte
Astrira
Of Joan's Youth
1298 SOPHIE JEWETT
1298
1299
1299
1300
1300
1301
1861-1909
Song
Entre Nous
I Speak Your Name
With a Copy of Wharton's "Sappho"
With a Daffodil
1862-?
MARY WESTON FORDHAM
1301
1302
1303
Atlanta Exposition Ode
The Coming Woman
The Washerwoman
1862-1931
Southern Horrors
1304 IDA S. WELLS
1305
1320 NELLIE SLY
1320
(ELIZABETH JANE COCHRAN)
1864-1922
.from Ten Days in a Mad-House
1335 "A WORKING GIRL" N . D .
1335
1341
Eugenie's Fete Day
VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE
1342
1345
1866-1912
Ave et Vale
Betrayed
1350 NISHIMURA EKIU V . UNITED STATES
1350
.from Nishimura Ekiu v. United States
1352 ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON
1353
1354
By the Bayou St. John
Sister Josepha
1359 LiLAC CHEN CA .
1359
Lilac Chen
1365
Index
Permissions
Editors
1375
1379
1887-?
1875-1935
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