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Literature by Women

1. Persuasion

   Jane Austen, Patricia Meyer Spacks

   Second Edition

   Jane Austen’s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen’s achievement.More

2. Emma

   Jane Austen, George Justice

   Fourth Edition

   Jane Austen’s beloved comedic novel is now available in a revised and updated Norton Critical Edition.More

3. Charlotte Temple

   Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust

   The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More

4. Uncle Tom's Cabin

   Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

   Second Edition

   One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.More

5. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

   Third Edition

   Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

6. Elizabeth I and Her Age

   Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump

   Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More

7. The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories

   Ellen Litman

   "[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

8. Mary Barton

   Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Recchio

   Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century’s most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution.More

9. O Pioneers!

   Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

   Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.More

10. Passing

    Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan

    Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.More

11. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader

    Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

    Additional information is forthcoming.

12. Jacob's Room

    Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt

    Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing.More

13. Roughing It in the Bush

    Susanna Moodie, Michael Peterman

    In 1832, Susanna Moodie immigrated to Canada from Britain with her husband and daughter in search of comfort and independence in the unsettled Canadian backwoods.More

14. Anne of Green Gables

    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