She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

by Janet Gray (Editor)

From the work of Lydia Sigourney Huntley to the anti-slavery poems of Sara Moore Grimke, the wealth of material in this anthology confirms the importance of writing by women in the development of a distinctive American literary tradition. Other poets included here are Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Emma Lazarus, Elizabeth Akers Allen, and Emily Dickinson.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 1998