Table of Contents
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Introduction
A Century’s End
William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple
Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette
A New Fiction for the New Country: 1800 to 1850
Charles Brockden Brown, Ormond
Catherine Maria Sedgwick, A New England Tale, Redwood, Hope Leslie, The Linwoods, Married or Single?
Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, Elinor Fulton
James Fenimore Cooper, Homeward Bound, Home as Found, The Ways of the Hour
William Gilmore Simms, Charlemont, Beauchampe
Maria McIntosh, Two Lives, Charms and Counter-Charms
An Interlude: 1850-1860
Susan B. Warner, The Wide, Wide World, Queechy, both written under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Wetherell)
E.D.E.N. Southworth, Retribution, The Deserted Wife
Caroline Hentz, Ernest Linwood
Mary Jane Holmes, Tempest and Sunshine
Marion Harland (Mary Hawes Terhune), Phemie’s Temptation
Maria Cummins, The Lamplighter
Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall
Augusta Evans (Wilson), St. Elmo
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred, Pink and White Tyranny, My Wife and I, We and our Neighbors
From War to War: 1861-1917
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner
Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons
Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth
Bayard Taylor, Hannah Thurston
Louisa May Alcott, Moods, Work
John W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty, Honest John Vane, Playing the Mischief
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward), The Gates Ajar, Hedged In, The Silent Partner, The Story of Avis, Doctor Zay, Walled In
Helen Hunt Jackson, Mercy Philbrick’s Choice, Hetty’s Strange History, Zeph
William Dean Howells, Their Wedding Journey, A Modern Instance, Indian Summer, Doctor Breen’s Practice, The Coast of Bohemia
Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor
Henry James, The Bostonians
Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne, East Angels, Horace Chase
Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher’s Cooly
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Gertrude Atherton, Patience Sparhook and Her Times, The Californians, American Wives and English Husbands, Ancestors
F. Hopkinson Smith, Tom Grogan
Frank Norris, Blix
Margaret Deland, Philip and His Wife, The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Iron Woman, The Rising Tide
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Robert Herrick, The Gospel of Freedom, Together, One Woman’s Life
Robert Grant, Unleavened Bread, The High Priestess
David Graham Phillips, The Deluge, Light-Fingered Gentry, The Hungry Heart, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt
Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, The Fruit of the Tree, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, Summer
Ellen Glasgow, The Miller of Old Church, Virginia, Life and Gabriella
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, What Diantha Did
Mary Johnston, Hagar
Mary Austin, A Woman of Genius
Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
Dorothy Canfield, The Squirrel-Cage, The Bent Twig
Susan Glaspell, Fidelity
Edna Ferber, Dawn O’Hara, Roast Beef, Medium, Personality Plus, Emma McCheney & Co., Fanny Herself
From War to War: 1918-1939
Gertrude Atherton, Black Oxen
Margaret Deland, The Vehement Flame
Edith Wharton, The Mother’s Recompense
Robert Herrick, Homely Lilla, The End of Desire
Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
Ellen Glasgow, Barren Grounds, The Romantic Comedian, They Stooped to Folly
Dorothy Canfield, The Brimming Cup, The Home-Maker
Sinclair Lewis, The Job, Main Street
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night
Floyd Dell, Moon-Calf, The Briary-Bush, Janet March
Anne Parrish, Semi-Attached
Frances Newman, The Hard-Boiled Virgin, Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers
Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds
Anzia Yezyierska, Salome of the Tenements
Leah Morton (Elizabeth G. Levin Stern), I am a Woman — and a Jew
Katharine Brush, Little Sins, Young Man of Manhattan
Vina Delmar, Bad Girl
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms
Fannie Hurst, Back Street
Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Wisdom’s Gate
Ruth Suckow, The Folks
Dawn Powell, The Bride’s House, Dance Night, Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel, The Happy Island
Kay Boyle, Plagued by the Nightingale, Year Before Last, My Next Bride
Josephine Herbst, Pity Is Not Enough, The Executioner Waits, Rope of Gold
Tess Slesinger, The Unpossessed
Agnes Smedley, Daughter of the Earth
Fielding Burke (Olive Tilford Dargan), Call Home the Heart
Grace Lumpkin, To Make My Bread
Leane Zugsmith, A Time to Remember
Meridel Le Sueur, The Girl
Bess Streeter Aldrich, Miss Bishop
Mary Ellen Chase, Mary Peters
Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers
Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
