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| Alice James (1848-1892) | |
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| From The Diary of Alice James | |
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| Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) | |
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| The New Colossus | |
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| Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) | |
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| Tom''s Husband | |
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| A White Heron | |
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| Kate Chopin (1850-1904) | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| The Awakening | |
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| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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| The Revolt Of Mother | |
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| Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| Closed Doors | |
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| The Real Religion | |
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| Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) | |
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| The Other Side of the Mirror | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Companionship | |
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| Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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| The Other Two | |
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| Her Son | |
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| Mary Austin (1868-1934) | |
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| The Basket Woman | |
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| The Stream That Ran Away | |
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| The Coyote-Spirit and the Weaving Woman | |
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| Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946) | |
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| Two Hanged Women | |
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| Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
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| The Letter | |
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| Summer Rain | |
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| After a Storm | |
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| The Sisters | |
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| Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) | |
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| The Furr and Miss Skeene | |
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| Gentle Lena | |
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| Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) | |
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| I Sit and Sew | |
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| The Goodness of St. Rocque | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (1881-1960) | |
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| Gilded Six Bits | |
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| Sweat | |
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| Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) | |
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| From A Room of One''s Own; Shakespeare''s Sister | |
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| The Mark on the Wall | |
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| Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) | |
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| Trifles | |
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| Mina Loy (1882-1966) | |
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| Moreover, The Moon | |
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| Lunar Baedeker | |
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| Anne Spencer (1882-1975) | |
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| Substitution | |
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| Lady, Lady | |
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| Anna Wickham (1884-1947) | |
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| The Affinity | |
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| Divorce | |
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| Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970) | |
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| My Own People from Hungry Hearts | |
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| America and I.H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) | |
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| Sea Rose | |
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| Oread | |
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| Helen | |
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| Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | |
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| Poetry | |
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| When I Buy Flowers | |
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| Hometown Piece for Messrs | |
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| Alston and Reese | |
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| Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) | |
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| Bliss | |
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| The Garden-Party | |
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| Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) | |
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| In Memory of M.B. Redwinged Birds | |
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| The Guest | |
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| Miriam Raskin (1889-1973) | |
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| At a Picnic | |
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| Jean Rhys (1890-1979) | |
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| from Wide Sargasso Sea | |
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| Edna St | |
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| Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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| I, Being Born a Women | |
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| Apostrophe to Man | |
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| The Snow Storm | |
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| I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines | |
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| Untitled Sonnet I | |
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| Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) | |
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| Indian Summer | |
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| The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk | |
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| Marita Bonner (1899-1971) | |
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| On Being Young—A Woman—And Colored | |
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| Meridel Le Seur (1900-1996) | |
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| from Salute to Spring: A Hungry Intellectual | |
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| The Girl | |
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| Stevie Smith (1902-1971) | |
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| Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| The New Age | |
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| Sylvia Regan (1908- ) | |
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| Morning Star | |
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| Under a Painted Smile | |
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| We''ll Bring the Rue de la Paix | |
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| Eudora Welty (1909- ) | |
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| A Worn Path | |
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| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) | |
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| The Fish | |
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| Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore | |
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| May Sarton (1912-1995) | |
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| The Muse as Medusa | |
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| Der Abschied | |
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| Mary Lavin (1912-1996) | |
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| The Nun''s Mother | |
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| Tillie Olsen (1912-) | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing | |
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| Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) | |
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| Study in a Late Subway | |
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| Eccentric Motion | |
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| To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Ruth Stone (1915-) | |
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| Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry | |
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| Margaret Walker (1915-) | |
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| For My People | |
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| Chicago | |
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| Southern Song | |
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| Judith Wright (1915-) | |
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| The Sisters | |
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| To Another Housewife | |
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| Naked Girl in the Mirror | |
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| Counting in Sevens | |
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| Lili Berger (1916-) | |
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| On Saint Katherine''s Day | |
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| Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-) | |
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| Five Men Against the Theme “My Name is Red Hot | |
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| Yo Name Ain Doodley Squat.” Friend | |
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| The Mother | |
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| Mary Tallmountain (1918-1994) | |
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| The Last Wolf | |
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| The Ivory Dog for My Sister | |
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| There is No Word For Goodbye | |
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| May Swenson (1919-1989) | |
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| Sleeping with Boa | |
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| View to the North | |
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| How to Be Old | |
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| Doris Lessing (1919-) | |
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| To Room Nineteen | |
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| Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-) | |
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| Seventeen Syllables | |
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| Grace Paley (1922-) | |
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| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | |
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| Denise Levertov (1923-1997) | |
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| The Ache of Marriage | |
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| Divorcing | |
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| Bedtime | |
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| Nadine Gordimer (1923-) | |
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| Town and Country Lovers | |
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| Jane Cooper (1924-) | |
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| Rent | |
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| Flannery O''Connor (1925-1964) | |
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| Good Country People | |
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| Carolyn Kizer (1925-) | |
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| The Intruder | |
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| A Window in Wintertime | |
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| Thrall | |
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| Maxine Kumin (1925-) | |
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| Regret | |
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| By Heart | |
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| Anne Sexton (1928-1974) | |
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| Said the Poet to the Analyst | |
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| Her Kind | |
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| Maya Angelou (1928-) | |
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| from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
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| Good Woman Feeling Bad | |
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| A Georgia Song | |
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| Cynthia Ozick (1928-) | |
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| The Shawl | |
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| Lore Segal (1928) | |