Women's Studies

1. Mill: The Spirit of the Age, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women

   John Stuart Mill, Alan Ryan

   This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz.More

2. Frankenstein

   Mary Shelley, J. Paul Hunter

   The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, in which only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. This text represents what Frankenstein's first readers encountered and is the text favored by scholars. A special critical section, Composition and Revision, includes essays by M. K. Joseph and Anne Mellor that address the issues surrounding teachers' choice of text.More

3. Aurora Leigh

   Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Margaret Reynolds

   This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds’ variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.More

4. Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife

   Carol M. Anderson, Sona Dimidjian, Susan Stewart

   A groundbreaking book portraying the new American lifestyle of single midlife women.More

5. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

   Elizabeth Wayland Barber

   "A fascinating history of . . . [a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book ReviewMore

6. American Women Regionalists: A Norton Anthology

   Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse

   A vibrant tradition—long neglected—is brought back to readers in this generous and rich collection.More

7. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers

   Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel

   Throughout history women have been composing music, but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized.More

8. Lost Star: The Search for Amelia Earhart

   Randall Brink

   "In this book, I deal only with the truth about Amelia Earhart's last flight, a truth withheld by our government because of a tenuous peace with Japan in the Pacific and concerns for the national security at home. . . . Those who knew the truth, and held it close, knew that Earhart and Noonan had survived. They believed it was their duty to hide the truth, and so they did."—from the IntroductionMore

9. The Norton Book of Women's Lives

   Phyllis Rose

   "This remarkable and wide-ranging collection, full of surprises, should encourage any woman who is trying to survive in a man's world, and enlighten any man who sincerely wants to understand contemporary women." —Alison LurieMore

10. Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women

    Patricia Bell-Scott

    Life Notes is the first collection devoted exclusively to writings from the journals, diaries, and personal notebooks of contemporary black women.
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11. Ethan Frome

    Edith Wharton, Kristin O. Lauer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff

    This Norton Critical Edition of Edith Wharton's celebrated novella is based on the first edition, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1911.More

12. Persuasion

    Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks

    The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the first edition (dated 1818 but probably issued in late 1817), which was published posthumously.More

13. The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

    Karen Horney

    In this work, Karen Horney explores the basic structure of neuroses in the context of their cultural assumptions.More

14. The Mill on the Floss

    George Eliot, Carol T. Christ

    The best-known and most autobiographical of George Eliot’s novels is now available as a Norton Critical Edition.More

15. The Princess of Clèves

    Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette, John D. Lyons

    The Princess of Clèves, often called the first modern French novel, was published anonymously in 1678 and was received with enthusiasm by its contemporary audience.More