From the first recorded writer to current bestsellers, feminist scholar Becca Anderson highlights women who have left their mark on the literary world. This expansive compilation of women writers delves deep into the lives and works of renowned authors and some lesser-known greats as well. With the help of writrs, editors, librarians, booksellers, and more, Anderson has crafted a must-read book for all women who love literature and herstory.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into psychosis at the complete lack of stimulation, she starts obsessing over

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In this varied collection of commemorative essays, fiction, and poetry, some of today's most important writers pay tribute to the genius of Flannery O'Connor. Included are contributions from both those who called O'Connor a friend and those who have learned from her as students through the timelessness of her written word. The diversity and avidity of those who revere the wry Georgia writer as an artist is testimony to the genius of a woman whose...