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
Length897h 35m
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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
Length897 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Most Influential Women in History: Over 100 Memoirs & Biographies
26CHAPTER 3
2Fiction
27CHAPTER 4
3Camilla (Fanny Burney)
28CHAPTER 5
4CHAPTER 1
29CHAPTER 6
5CHAPTER 2
30CHAPTER 7
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6CHAPTER 3
31CHAPTER 8
7CHAPTER 4
32CHAPTER 9
8CHAPTER 5
33CHAPTER 10
9CHAPTER 6
34CHAPTER 11
10CHAPTER 7
35CHAPTER 12
11CHAPTER 2
36CHAPTER 13
12CHAPTER 3
37CHAPTER 2
13CHAPTER 4
38CHAPTER 3
14CHAPTER 5
39CHAPTER 4
15CHAPTER 6
40CHAPTER 5
16CHAPTER 7
41CHAPTER 6
17CHAPTER 8
42CHAPTER 7
18CHAPTER 9
43CHAPTER 8
19CHAPTER 10
44CHAPTER 9
20CHAPTER 11
45CHAPTER 2
21CHAPTER 12
46CHAPTER 3
22CHAPTER 13
47CHAPTER 4
23CHAPTER 14
48CHAPTER 5
24CHAPTER 15
49CHAPTER 6
25CHAPTER 2
50CHAPTER 7
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