Margaret Fuller, selections from Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Harriet Jacobs, "The Trials of Girlhood," from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Letter to Ticknor, February 1855

Mary Kelley. Private Women, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in 19th Century America. New York: Oxford, 1984.

• Preface
  
• Chapter 1: The Fanny Fern