Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust
The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More
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
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
Rachel Corrie
"A testament to how deeply we need the power and vision and energy of young women to transform the world."--Eve EnslerMore
Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump
Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More
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
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
Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan
Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.More
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar
Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s newest collaboration, Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader, is the first collection to trace the historical evolution of feminist writing about literature in English from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.More
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
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