American women have created an especially vigorous and innovative poetry, beginning in 1632 when Anne Bradstreet set aside her needle and picked up her "poet's

This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general publ

An introductory essay will identify central concerns, historical backgrounds, evolving patterns and poetic issues, as marked through the course of the century.

Biographical sketches and selections of poetry from over one hundred American poets including Anne Bradstreet, Lydia Maria Child, Lucy Carion, and Harriet Beech

A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women's poetry of t