Evolution of American Women Writers Through the Nineteenth Century
The piece surveys American women authors from the Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. It notes Ann Eliza Bleecker, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Mercy Warren, and Sarah Margaret Fuller, among others, and traces regionalism, Transcendentalism, and social conscience shaping fiction. It discusses New England’s literary dominance, the rise of sociological novels, and figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary Wilkins Freeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Maria Kittle
Susanna Haswell Rowson
America
Mercy Otis Warren
Harriet Beecher Stowe
New England
Sarah Margaret Fuller
Emerson
The
Dial
Sarah Orne Jewett
Boston
Iceland
Rebecca Harding
Iron Mills
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Rose Terry Cooke
Alice Brown
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Mary Wilkins
First Major 19th Century American Women Authors
The piece highlights Harriet Beecher Stowe Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson as pivotal women shaping 19th century American culture. It notes Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin influence, Alcott’s Hospital Sketches and Little Women reflecting New England life, and Dickinson as spiritual voice, marking shifts in national identity. Page 12 column 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
New England
Bronson Alcott
Washington
Boston
Louisa Alcott
Emily Elizabeth Dickenson
Massachusetts
Women Poets Shape Modern American Verse and Imagism
American women poets after Emily Dickinson helped mold modern styles like Imagism and free verse. Amy Lowell led Imagism in the US, Ezra Pound in England. Mariane Moore and Hilda Doolittle refined concise, vivid diction. Edna St. Vincent Millay won a Pulitzer for The Harpweaver. Milay also wrote Renascence and a libretto. Eleanor Wylie earned acclaim for a simple melodic tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amy Lowell
Boston
Ezra Pound
Mariane Moore
Hilda Doolittle
H. D
Europe
Chicago
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Deems Taylor
Metropolitan Opera House
Hellman and Stein Change Landscape of American Literature
American women make strides in drama and journalism with Lillian Hellman born 1905 in New Orleans emerging as a leading dramatist. Her works The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes predate Watch On The Rhine, reflecting social issues and anti Nazi sentiment. Gertrude Stein remains enigmatic, shaping prose through sound and impression over meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Hellman
New Orleans
Children’s Hour
America
Gertrude Stein
Willa Cather
Virginia
Nebraska
Antonia
Miss Harris
American Women Novelists and Their Social Realism
A survey of American women novelists and their portrayals of regional life and social issues. Rebecca Harding Davis Ellen Glasgow Edna Ferber Edith Wharton Willa Cather Pearl Buck Carson McCullers and their notable works and themes from the naturalistic critique to regional reform.
Women Influence Journalism From 1754 to Present Day
American women have shaped journalism since colonial times with figures like Ann Franklin in 1754 and Cornelia Walter in the 1840s. The piece traces milestones in editors reporters and war correspondents through World War I and beyond, highlighting key names and shifts in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Franklin
Newport Mercury
Cornelia Walter
Boston Transcript
Margaret Fuller
New York “Tribune
New York
Emily Verdery
Bettey
Sun
Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochran
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stowe
Spirit of
World Poets of Imagist School
Emily Dickenson
Dickenson
Eleanor Wylie
Carl van Doren
Edna Ferber
Hellman
Stein
Rebecca Harding Davis
Margaret Howth
Zola
Stephen Crane
Theodore Dreiser
Ellen Glasgow
South
William Allen White
Dyn
Asty
Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome
Newport
Pearl Buck
West Virginia
China
Carson McCullers
Lewis Gannett
New York Herald-Tribune
World
Jules Verne
Ida Tarbell
Standard Oil Company
Lovelorn
Fanny Ward
Cuba
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