Sarah Moore Grimke, "Letter XV: Man Equally Guilty With Woman in the Fall"

Annie Fields, from The Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1897)

Announcements of slave sales

Illustration of log cabin quilt

Nancy F. Cott. (1977). The Bonds of Womanhood. Introduction (pp. 1 -18). New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.

Nina Baym, Selections from Women's Fiction: A guide to Novels by and About Women in America 2nd Ed. U. of Chicago Press,1993:

• Introduction to the Second Edition
• Chapter 1) Introductions and Conclusions
• Chapter 2) The From and Ideology of Women's Fiction

Ann Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture New York. Doubleday,1977.

• Inroduction: The Legacy of American Victorianism: The Meaning of Little Eva

Jane Tompkins, "Uncle Tom's Cabin and Literary History".