ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs
Landmark Novels, Memoirs, and Reform Writings on Women's Rights, Freedom, and Modern WomanhoodBy Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Chopin, Grant Allen, Ethel Sybil Turner, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, H. G. Wells, Gene Stratton-Porter, Theodore Dreiser, Ada Cambridge, Mary Johnston, Marietta Holley, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Morley, Zona Gale, Elizabeth von Arnim, Edna Ferber, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Raden Adjeng Kartini, Emma Goldman, Julia Ward Howe, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mother Jones, Helen Wright, Helen Keller, Catherine H. Birney, Rebecca Deming Moore, D. H. Lawrence, Margaret Oliphant, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Sanger, Sinclair Lewis, Sarah H. Bradford, Kate Stephens
Length905h 46m
About this audiobook
ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs assembles a capacious transatlantic archive of women's lives, ambitions, constraints, and self-fashioning. Moving among realist and Gothic fiction, domestic narratives, social protest, political testimony, biography, and memoir, the volume charts changing conceptions of gender from the eighteenth century through modernity. Its selection brings canonical novels into productive relation with less frequently anthologized reformist writing, labor advocacy, and autobiographical witness, making literary form itself part of the inquiry into women's public and private authority. The contributors and subjects represented belong to overlapping traditions of Romantic dissent, Victorian social realism, American regionalism, naturalism, New Woman fiction, modernism, and suffrage-era activism. Novelists such as Austen, Brontë, Cather, Wharton, Woolf, and Chopin converse across the volume with political thinkers, educators, journalists, and organizers including Wollstonecraft, Fuller, Stanton, Kartini, Goldman, Pankhurst, Sanger, Keller, and Mother Jones. Together, these varied voices illuminate how questions of education, work, marriage, sexuality, class, race, citizenship, and artistic vocation entered both imaginative literature and public debate. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking a single-volume encounter with women's writing as aesthetic achievement and historical record. Its breadth invites comparison among genres, nations, and generations, while its juxtapositions foster sustained dialogue between fictional possibility and lived struggle. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find an illuminating introduction to the many forms women have used to narrate, contest, and redefine power.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length905 hrs 46 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Fiction
2Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 1)
3Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 2)
4Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 3)
5Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 4)
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6Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 5)
7Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 6)
8Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 7)
9Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 8)
10Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 9)
11Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 10)
12Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 11)
13Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 12)
14Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 13)
15Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 14)
16Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 15)
17Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 16)
18Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 17)
19Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) (pt. 1)
20Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) (pt. 2)
21Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 1)
22Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 2)
23Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 3)
24Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 4)
25Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 5)
26Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 6)
27Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 1)
28Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 2)
29Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 3)
30Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 4)
31Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 5)
32Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 6)
33Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 7)
34Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 8)
35Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 9)
36The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 1)
37The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 2)
38The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 3)
39The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 4)
40Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Nikolai Leskov)
41Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 1)
42Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 2)
43Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 3)
44Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 4)
45Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 5)
46Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 6)
47Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 7)
48Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 8)
49Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 9)
50Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Harding Davis)
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