Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar
Third Edition / Volume(s): Two-Volume Set
Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women’s writing in English.More
L. M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston
Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada’s most famous novel.More
Michael E. Staub, Kayla Williams
“Brave, honest, and necessary.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR SeattleMore
George Johnson
“A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements.”—Simon Singh, New York Times Book ReviewMore
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.More
Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKoven
This Norton Critical Edition includes both Three Lives and Q.E.D., first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively.More
Barbara Goldsmith
Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. Obsessive Genius is a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing scientific success, and the price she paid for fame.More
Judith Lorber
In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More
Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston
A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.More
Jane Austen, Susan Fraiman
Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austen’s youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel.More
Julian of Norwich, Denise N. Baker
Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history.More
Louisa M. Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K Phillips
This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.More
Edith Wharton, Candace Waid
The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel
of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously
annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar.More
Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn
Fourth Edition
The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.More
Lynn Peril
From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.More