Women's Studies

1. Little Women

   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

2. 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

3. Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

   Terri Apter

   "The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewMore

4. Emma

   Jane Austen, Stephen M. Parrish

   Third Edition

   The text reprinted in this new edition of Austen’s comedic novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been carefully edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition.More

5. 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

6. Mansfield Park

   Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson

   The text is that of a new authoritative text, which closely follows the one Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816.More

7. Northanger Abbey

   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

8. Sense and Sensibility

   Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson

   Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work.More

9. Pride and Prejudice

   Jane Austen, Donald J. Gray

   Third Edition

   The text of Pride and Prejudice is the 1813 first edition text.More

10. 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

11. Oroonoko

    Aphra Behn, Joanna Lipking

    This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn’s best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime.More

12. 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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13. The Women Troubadours

    Meg Bogin

    An introduction to the women poets of 12th-century Provence and a collection of their poems.More

14. 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

15. Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

    Third Edition

    The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author.More