
The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume
Essential Fiction, Essays, Speeches, and Manifestos on Women's Rights, Freedom, and Social ReformBy Henrik Ibsen, Charlotte Brontë, Marietta Holley, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill, Zona Gale, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Rebecca Harding Davis, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wollstonecraft, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Johnston, Grant Allen, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, Sojourner Truth, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Martineau, Fanny Burney, Mary Ware Dennett, Julia Ward Howe, Ada Cambridge, H. G. Wells, Sarah H. Bradford, D. H. Lawrence, Nikolai Leskov, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Leo Tolstoy, Margaret Deland, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Mitchell, Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Burgoyne CorbettLength899h 44m
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The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume gathers fiction, essays, speeches, social criticism, and reformist prose into a capacious history of women's intellectual and imaginative self-assertion. Moving from the eighteenth century through modernism, it places domestic novels beside arguments for education, suffrage, economic independence, sexual autonomy, and artistic authority. Gothic intensity, realist observation, satire, romance, regional writing, and polemic coexist, while landmark declarations of women's rights and searching narratives of constrained lives give the volume unusual historical breadth. Its contributors span British, American, European, and transatlantic traditions, bringing together novelists, philosophers, journalists, activists, and public lecturers. The collection traces intersecting currents of Enlightenment rationalism, Victorian reform, abolitionism, the New Woman movement, suffrage activism, and early twentieth-century feminism. Voices attentive to class, marriage, labor, race, motherhood, and authorship reveal that feminism has never been a single doctrine, but a sustained argument conducted across genres and generations. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking both an introduction to feminist literary history and a rich comparative archive. Its juxtapositions invite readers to follow recurring questions across distinct styles and national settings: who may speak, work, create, love, or govern? Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers alike, it offers an educational encounter with enduring texts whose dialogue illuminates feminism's varied inheritances and continuing urgency.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length899 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 2, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 1)
2Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 2)
3Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 3)
4Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 4)
5Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 5)
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6Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 6)
7Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 7)
8Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 8)
9Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 9)
10Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 10)
11Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 11)
12Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 12)
13Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 13)
14Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 14)
15Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 15)
16Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 16)
17Camilla (Fanny Burney) (pt. 17)
18Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) (pt. 1)
19Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) (pt. 2)
20Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 1)
21Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 2)
22Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 3)
23Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 4)
24Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 5)
25Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (pt. 6)
26Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 1)
27Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 2)
28Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 3)
29Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 4)
30Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 5)
31Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 6)
32Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 7)
33Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 8)
34Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) (pt. 9)
35The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 1)
36The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 2)
37The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 3)
38The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (pt. 4)
39Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Nikolai Leskov)
40Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 1)
41Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 2)
42Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 3)
43Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 4)
44Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 5)
45Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 6)
46Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 7)
47Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 8)
48Hester (Margaret Oliphant) (pt. 9)
49Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Harding Davis)
50Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (pt. 1)