Contents:
Volume I: Suffrage
Edited and Introduced by Janet Beer
Janet Beer Introduction: The Woman Suffrage Movement in America - 1848-1920
1. The First Convention: Seneca Falls, including the Declaration of Sentiments [1848]
2. Lucretia Mott Discourse on Woman, Philadelphia [T.B. Peterson, 1850]
3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Worcester [1850] and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse [1852] Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852]
4. Matilda Gage to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse, Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852]
5. Theodore Parker A Sermon of the Public Function of Women, Women's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1853]
6. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Colored People in America, from The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects Philadelphia [1857]
7. Sojourner Truth Address to the American Equal Rights Association [1867]
8. Hamilton Wilcox Women are Voters! New York Suffrage Law [John W. Lovell Co., 1885]
9. Angelina French Newman Woman Suffrage in Utah [Government Print Office, 1886]
10. Henry Blair Woman Suffrage Speech to the Senate [1886]
11. Clara Benwick Colby The Ballot and the Bullet Theory The Woman's Tribune [Editor, 1883-86]
12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Unsolved Problems in Woman Suffrage, reprinted from The Forum [Forum Publishing Company, 1887]
13. F.G. Adams The Women's Vote in Kansas [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1888]
14. Olympia Brown Woman's Suffrage a Political Necessity, abstract of address before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, [January 28, 1889]
15. Lucy Stone Questions for Remonstrants [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
16. Olive Schreiner Three Dreams in a Desert [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
17. Various Authors, The Elective Franchise [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
18. Ednah D. Cheney Municipal Suffrage for Women [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
19. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Straight Lines or Oblique Lines? [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1893]
20. Henry Blackwell Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1896]
21. Katherine A.G. Patterson, Helen G. Ecob et al Colorado Speaks for Herself [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1897]
22. Carrie Chapman Catt, Florence Kelley and Evelyn W. Ordway How the Women of New Orleans Discovered their Wish to Vote [Political Science Study Series, Vol. V. No. 4, 1900]
23. William M. Salter What is the Real Emancipation of Woman? [Woman Suffrage Association, 1902]
24. Marion B. Schlesinger, Mary A.E.M. Buckminster, and Mary Leavens Arguments in Favour of Woman Suffrage [Committee of the College Equal Suffrage Law, 1905]
25. Ida Husted Harper Suffrage a Right [North American Review Publishing Co., 1906]
26. Ida Husted Harper History of the Movement for Women Suffrage [Interurban Woman Suffrage Council, 1907]
27. Martha Carey Thomas New Fashioned Argument for Woman Suffrage [National American Women Suffrage Association, 1908]
28. Julia Ward Howe Woman and the Suffrage The Outlook [1909]
29. Max Eastman Woman's Suffrage and Sentiment [The Equal Franchise Society, 1909]
30. Lucia Ames Mead What Women Might Do with the Ballot [National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1910]
31. Amelia MacDonald Cutler Six Reasons Why Farmers' Wives Should Vote [National American Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., circa 1910]
32. The Truth versus Richard Barry [National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1911]
33. Equal Suffrage Meeting [Frank Facey, 1911]
34. Women in the Home [California Equal Suffrage Association, circa 1911]
35. Ida Husted Harper How Six States Won Woman Suffrage [National American Woman's Suffrage Association, 1912]
36. Theodore Roosevelt Speech on Suffrage [Allied Printing, 1912]
37. Ella S. Stewart The Ballot for the Women of the Farm [Chicago, 1913]
38. Official Program, Woman Suffrage Procession [1913]
39. George Creel What Have Women Done with the Vote? [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1915]
40. Alice Stone Blackwell Jane Addams Testifies Woman's Journal [1915]
41. Alice Stone Blackwell Woman Suffrage [1915]
42. Edith Abbot Are Women a Force for Good Government? National Municipal Review Vo. IV, No.3 July [1915]
43. Mary Beard and Florence Kelley Why Women Demand a Federal Suffrage Amendment [Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916]
44. Mrs. Guilford Dudley The Negro Votes in the South [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1918]
45. Carrie Chapman Catt An Address to the Legislatures of the United States [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., 1919]
Volume II: Work and Education
Edited and introduced by Anne-Marie Ford
Anne-Marie Ford Introduction: The Woman's Place
Part 1: Education
46. C.D.B Colby Concerning Farmers' Wives [New England Publishing Company, 1880]
47. Maria Mitchell The Collegiate Education of Girls [New England Publishing Company, 1881]
48. Kate Morris Cone The Gifts of Women to Educational Institutions [Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1884]
49. Kate Holladay Claghorn The Problem of Occupation for College Women Educational Review March 1898, pp. 217-230
50. Sui Sin Far and Edith Maude Eaton Its Wavering Image Mrs. Spring Fragrance [1912]
51. Zitkala-Sa and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin 'The Ground Squirrel' and 'The Big Red Apples' from 'Impressions of an Indian Childhood',Atlantic Monthly [1900]
52. Francis Squire Potter Education and Democracy [College Equal Suffrage League, July 1909]
Part 2: Women's Work
53. Caroline Dall The Opening at the Gates The College, the Market and the Court, or Women's Relations to Education, Labor and Law [Boston, Lee and Shepherd, 1867]
54. May Wright Sewall A Report on the Position of Women in Industry and Education in the State of Indiana [Indiana Department of the New Orleans Exposition, 1885]
55. Agnes Nestor The Working Girl's Need of Suffrage [Literature of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference, circa 1910]
56. Wages of Women in the Corset Factories in Massachusetts [Minimum Wage Commission, 1914.]
57. Maggie Hinchey Senators vs. Working Women [Wage Earners' Suffrage League, circa 1918.]
Part 3: The Rights and Wrongs of Women
58. Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia Tribune, March 1859, [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1859]
59. Southern Proofs of the 'Chivalrous and High-Minded Character' produced by slavery [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
60. Southern Proofs that Slavery is a 'Parental Relation' [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
Part 4: Angels of Mercy
61. Seventh Report of the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia [1865]
62. C.E. Hopkins and E.C. Hobson A Report Concerning The Coloured Women of the South [Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1896]
63. Anna Julia Cooper The Status of Woman in America A Voice from the South [The Aldine Printing House, 1892, pp.127-145]
64. N. Mosell, The Work of the Afro-American Woman, [G.S. Ferguson, 1894, reprinted 1908.]
65. Elise Johnson McDougald The Task of Negro Womanhood [The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke.]
66. The Fadettes Woman's Orchestra of Boston Boston Evening Transcript [14 August 1906]
67. Women's National Agricultural and Horticultural Association, May 1914
68. Edith Wharton 'Reverence' and 'The New Frenchwoman,' French Ways and Their Meaning New York and London [D. Appleton, 1919.]
Volume III: Health, Birth-Control and Prostitution
Edited and introduced by Katherine Joslin
Katherine Joslin Introduction: The Female Body
69. Victoria Woodhull The Elixir of Life, or Why do We Die? [Woodhull and Clafin, 1873]
70. Mary Putman Jacobi A Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation [1877]
71. John Noyes Male Continence The Oneida Community [Office of the American Socialist, 1877]
72. Dr Elizabeth Blackwell The Human Element in Sex [J.&A. Churchill, 1894]
73. Maria E. Ward Bicycling for Ladies [Brentano's, 1896]
74. Police Records of Prostitution from 1907-1908 in The Records of the Enforcement of the Laws of Prostitution
75. Helen Keller The Modern Woman Metropolitan Magazine, 1912 [Congressional Record, September 17, 1913]
76. Dr. Anna Blount The Woman Voter and the Eugenic Ideal (c.1915) [Research Publications, Inc., 1977]
77. Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes The Problem of Unrest SNE, volume 31
78. Margaret Sanger Family Limitation [Fifth Edition, 1916]
79. S. Adolphus Knopf Birth Control [A.R. Elliott Publishing Company, 1916]
80. Katharine Bushnell Plain Words to Plain People
81. Virginia Brooks Eliminating Vice from the Small City [Chicago]
82. M.P. Dowling, Paul L. Blakely and Austin O'Malley Race, Suicide, Birth Control [New York Press]
83. Florence Kelley and Alzina Stevens Wage Earning Children in Hull House Maps and Papers [Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895]
84. Caroline Hedger, M.D. The School Children of the Stockyards District, Reprinted from the Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held at Washington D.D., September 23-28, 1912, [Washington Government Printing Office, 1913]
85. The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor in Collaboration with the Women's Education and Industrial Union of Boston, 'Household Expenses,' [Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1900]
86. Jane Addams Increased Social Control in a New Conscience and an Ancient Evil [Macmillan, 1912]
87. Emma Goldman The Traffic in Women (1911), Red Emma Speaks edited by Alix Kates Shulman, [Random House, 1972]
88. Frances E. Willard The Beautiful in How to Win: A Book for Girls [Funk & Wagnalls, 1886]
89. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Women and Social Service, Address before the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government [November 14, 1907]
90. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence Does a Man Support his Wife? And Who Supports the Children? [National American Woman Suffrage Association]
Volume IV: Women's Clubs and Settlements
Edited and introduced by Katherine Joslin
Katherine Joslin Introduction: The Gathering of Women
91. Mrs. Percy Pennybacker The Eighth Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, No. 519 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
92. Sarah S. Platt Decker The Meaning of the Women's Club Movement, No. 513, [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
93. Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman The Women's Clubs in the Middle-Western States, No.515 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
94. Mary Alden Ward The Influence of Women's Clubs in New England, and in the Middle-Eastern States, No. 514 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
95. 'Clara de Hirsche Home for Working Girls,' Pamphlet, [Keystone Printery New York, 1905]
96. Elizabeth Lindsay David Chapters 1 and 2 from The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs [Pamphlet, 1922]
97. Dorothea Moore The Work of Women's Clubs in California, No. 517, [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
98. Mrs A.O Granger The Effect of Club Work in the South, No. 516 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
99. Frances E. Willard The Ballot for the Home, Equal Suffrage Leaflet, Volume VII, Number 2 [March 1898]
100. Eliza Daniel Stewart Memories of the Crusade: A Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime [Columbus: Wm. G. Hubbard and Co., 1888]
101. Alice Stone Blackwell Suffrage and Temperance [Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal, circa 1912]
102. Elizabeth Tilton Is Beer the Cure for the Drink Evil? The Survey February 24, [1917]
103. Jane Addams Hull House: A Social Settlement at 335 South Halstead Street [Privately Published, 1894]
104. Jane Addams The Subjective Value of Social Settlements Philanthropy and Social Progress [Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893]
105. South End House: Its 18th Year of Cumulative Progress [March 1910]
106. Ellen Gates Starr Art and Labor Hull House Maps and Papers [Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895]
107. Florence Mabel Dedrick Our Sister or the Streets Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade [G.S. Ball, 1910]
108. Lillian D. Wald Organizations within the Settlements in The House on Henry Street [Rinehart and Winston, 1915]
109. Jane Addams Women's Memories - Reacting on Life as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby The Long Road of Woman's Memory [Macmillan, 1916]
110. Mary Antin The Law of the Fathers They Who Knock at Our Gates [Houghton Mifflin, 1914]
111. Anna Julia Cooper The Social Settlement: What It Is and What It Does [privately published, Murray Brothers Press, 1913]
112. Ida B. Wells-Barnett A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the US, 1892-1893-1894 [Donohue & Henneberry, 1895]
113. Alice Hamilton 'Journey and Impressions of Congress' and 'At the War Capitals' Women at the Hague [Macmillan, 1915]
114. Emily Greene Blach and Mercedes M. Randall Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Appendix in Peace and Bread in Time of War [Macmillan, 1922]
115. Zitkala-Sa and Gertrude Bonnin The Warlike Seven Old Indian Legends [Ginn & Company, 1902]
116. Mary Austin Sex Emancipation through War, Forum 59 [1918]
117. Caroline Bartlett Crane What Every Woman Wants Everyman's House [Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925]

Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. The House of Mirth was published in October 1905 to widespread critical acclaim. It became an instant bestseller and is regarded today as one of Edith Wharton's most accomplished and compelling social satires.

Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The House of Mirth and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton's text.

First published in 1899, "The Awakening"'s engagement with taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity prompted a flurry of damning reviews that sent the book out of print and int obscurity for several decades. However, it is now hailed as a key early feminist text and has become one of the most widely studied works of American literature.
This" Sourcebook "combines accessible commentary with reprinted documents to provide the ideal introduction to the novel. Its first section, "Contexts" provides biographical information on Chopin and explores 1890s American society to reveal the contextual backdrop to her work. The editors pay particular attention to Chopin's Louisiana Creole heritage and to the expectations of women in this era. "Interpretations" begins with an overview of the critical reception of the novel and then introduces extracts from important early reviews and contemporary criticism. Readers are carefully guided through a range of crucial issues from Chopin'streatment of female sexuality to the influence of Darwinism on her writing. The following section, "Key Passages," reproduces selected chapters fof the original text, along with extensive commentary. These commentaries equip readers to make connections with the critical and contextual issues raised earlier in the Sourcebook and to initiate engaged, informed, individual new analyses of Chopin's text. A concluding "Further Reading" section is provided for those wishing to extend their work on the novel.
Offering a perfectly judged selection of reprinted materials and insightful, refreshingly clear commentary, this volume will greatly enrich any reading of "The Awakening,"

First published in 1899, "The Awakening"'s engagement with taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity prompted a flurry of damning reviews that sent the book out of print and int obscurity for several decades. However, it is now hailed as a key early feminist text and has become one of the most widely studied works of American literature.
This" Sourcebook "combines accessible commentary with reprinted documents to provide the ideal introduction to the novel. Its first section, "Contexts" provides biographical information on Chopin and explores 1890s American society to reveal the contextual backdrop to her work. The editors pay particular attention to Chopin's Louisiana Creole heritage and to the expectations of women in this era. "Interpretations" begins with an overview of the critical reception of the novel and then introduces extracts from important early reviews and contemporary criticism. Readers are carefully guided through a range of crucial issues from Chopin'streatment of female sexuality to the influence of Darwinism on her writing. The following section, "Key Passages," reproduces selected chapters fof the original text, along with extensive commentary. These commentaries equip readers to make connections with the critical and contextual issues raised earlier in the Sourcebook and to initiate engaged, informed, individual new analyses of Chopin's text. A concluding "Further Reading" section is provided for those wishing to extend their work on the novel.
Offering a perfectly judged selection of reprinted materials and insightful, refreshingly clear commentary, this volume will greatly enrich any reading of "The Awakening,"

Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.

Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.

Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton. Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, headnotes, endnotes and a general index.

Wharton's late and critically-neglected novels are reclaimed as experimental in form and radical in content in this book, which also suggests that her portrayal of older female characters in her last six novels anticipates contemporary unease about the cultural marginalization of the older woman in Western society.

A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film. All three writers are still popular in US classrooms in particular. This paperback edition includes a new Preface to the material, providing a useful update on recent scholarship.

The work of Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman in the short story is more highly esteemed in contemporary critical opinion than ever before. Janet Beer illuminates their congruities as well as their diversity and demonstrates the unique, innovatory contribution that each made to the tradition of the short story. She looks at the short fiction of all three writers in terms of both genre and theme, ranging between discussions of Chopin's short stories and Wharton's novellas; between Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease. Other issues addressed are ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and "The Yellow Wallpaper" on film. Separate aspects of the individual writers are explored, concentrating closely on subject and style and engaging in detailed readings of a range of texts. This is the first time these writers have been compared in depth in one volume.

A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film. All three writers are still popular in US classrooms in particular. This paperback edition includes a new Preface to the material, providing a useful update on recent scholarship.

Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography. The opening chapter provides an overview of recent scholarship in Wharton studies including an appraisal of biographical texts, and subsequent chapters treat recurrent themes and ideas in her fiction and non-fiction, and the American and European context of her work. The major novels, as well as those less well-known, are discussed as are: contemporary reception of her work, American responses to her expatriation, her friendships with the leading artists of her day, and the influence of the First World War on her work.

'Beer offers an assemblage of discrete essays ( written in the spirit of the short story itself), connected by generic and thematic concerns, with the delightful result of giving us a series of lucidly written close readings from the perspective of what Virginia Woolf calls 'the common reader' - Katherine Joslin, Western Michigan University A wide range of short fiction by Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the focus for this study, examining both genre and theme. Chopin's short short stories, Wharton's novellas, Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease are compared. There are also essays on ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' on film.

Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness' contributed to the composition of a complex voice that was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal to researchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature.

Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness' contributed to the composition of a complex voice that was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal to researchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature.

Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to find her place in a materialistic and unforgiving society. The House of Mirth offers a fascinating insight into the culture of the time and, as suggested by the success of recent film adaptations, it is also an enduring tale of love, ambition and social pressures still relevant today.

Including a selection of illustrations from the original magazine publication, which offers a unique insight to what the contemporary reader would have seen, this volume also provides:

• an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The House of Mirth
• a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
• a selection of new critical essays on the The House of Mirth, by Edie Thornton, Katherine Joslin, Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan, Kathy Fedorko and Pamela Knights, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
• cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of The House of Mirth and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Wharton's text.