Burial of the Minnisink 713
The slave's dream 715
The arsenal at springfield 716
The jewish cemetery at newport 718
John Greenleaf whittier (1807-1892) 720
The hunters of men 721
Toussaint L'Ouverture 722
The yankee girl 729
Lines 730
The ship-builders 731
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: Seth Luther, From Address to the working men of new England 734
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) 736
The Raven 738
Annabel lee 741
The fall of the house of Usher 743
Ligeia 757
The philosophy of composition 769
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) 780
The great lawsuit, man versus men. Woman versus Women 782
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments 821
GALLERY: Women, Domesticity, and Publication
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), Desultory Thoughts upon the utility of encouraging a degree of self-complacency, especially in female bosoms 827
Eliza Lee Follen (1787-1860), Women's work 831
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), Books 833
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), Feeling 835
Sarah Willis Parton (1811-1872), A Chapter on literary women 839
Phoebe Cary (1824-1871), Advice Gratis to Certain literary women 841
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) 844
From Incidents in the life of a slave girl: written by herself
Preface by the author 846
Introduction by the editor 847
I. Childhood 848
II. The New Master and Mistress 851
V. The trials of Girlhood 855
VI. The Jealous Mistress 857
VII. The lover 862