From left to right: Edith Wharton, Tracy K. Smith, Louisa May Alcott, Julia Alvarez, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Edwidge Danticat, Kate Chopin, and Toni Morrison
Reference Works
The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights by 
The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing by 
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing by 
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature by 
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States by Dictionary of Literary Biography
The Dictionary of Literary Biography(DLB) is the standard resource for very detailed biographical articles on writers of all types, in many genres. Each volume is devoted to authors from a particular time, country, or genre.
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Introduction
This guide is designed to give a brief overview of women writers in America. Here you will find all sorts of materials available through the Gumberg Library on female novelists, poets, and playwrights—both classic and contemporary—including reference works, print and electronic books, as well as databases for articles.
Find Books
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Topics
American Women Authors and Literary Movements
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Selected Books
A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry by 
Nineteenth Century American Women Poets: An Anthology by Journals
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Literature Databases
Other Databases
The Independent Woman
PBS, America in Primetime, Episode 1
Guide created by Christopher Anthony, English Department Intern, Gumberg Library, October 2018
