100 Best Books by American Women During the Past 100 Years, 1833-1933

Given by National Council of Women

98 Works 116,290 Livros 1,841 Críticas ½ 3.9
This list was chosen by the National Council of Women in 1933. For reviews of each selected title, see the book on Hathitrust.
Categorias:
Todos, Biografia (17), Drama (6), Essays (5), Ficção (21), Humor (3), Juvenile (11), Poesia (14), Religion (3), Science (1), Short Stories (4), Social Science (6), Travel (6), No Category (1)
ObraCategoria
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) por Jane Addams
Biografia
Catherine the Great (1925) por Katharine Anthony
Biografia
The Promised Land (1912) por Mary Antin
Biografia
Earth Horizon: An Autobiography (1932) por Mary Hunter Austin
Biografia
The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1972) por Martha Dickinson Bianchi
Biografia
Grandmother Brown's hundred years, 1827-1927 (1929) por Harriet Connor Brown
Biografia
Mozart (1932) por Marcia Davenport
Biografia
Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women (Women in America: from colonial times to the 20th century) (1934) por Inez Haynes Irwin
Biografia
The Story of My Life (1903) por Helen Keller
Biografia
A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory (1889) por Lucy Larcom
Biografia
John Keats (1925) por Amy Lowell
Biografia
Pere Marquette (1929) por Agnes Repplier
Biografia
My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1921) por Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Biografia
The Story of a Pioneer (1994) por Anna Howard Shaw
Biografia
History of woman suffrage (1970) por Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Biografia
The life of Abraham Lincoln, drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished (1900) por Ida M. Tarbell
Biografia
Glimpses of fifty years; the autobiography of an American woman (1889) por Frances E. Willard
Biografia
When Ladies Meet: A Comedy (1932) por Rachel Crothers
Drama
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1912) por Eleanor Gates
Drama
Alison's House: A Play in Three Acts (1930) por Susan Glaspell
Drama
Fashion: Or, Life in New York(1845) (1954) por Anna Cora Mowatt
Drama
The Piper: A Play in Four Acts (1911) por Josephine Preston Peabody
Drama
Sun Up (1929) por Lula Vollmer
Drama
On understanding women (1931) por Mary R. Beard
Essays
Letters from New-York (1977) por Lydia Maria Child
Essays
Literature and art (2006) por Margaret Fuller
Essays
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine (1850) por Sarah Josepha Hale
Essays
Poets & their art (1932) por Harriet Monroe
Essays
The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton (1902) por Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Ficção
The Good Earth (1931) por Pearl S. Buck
Ficção
The Deepening Stream (1930) por Dorothy Canfield
Ficção
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) por Willa Cather
Ficção
The Lamplighter (1854) por Maria S. Cummins
Ficção
St. Elmo (1866) por Augusta J. Evans
Ficção
Show Boat (1926) por Edna Ferber
Ficção
The Led-Horse Claim: A romance of the silver mines (1883) por Mary Hallock Foote
Ficção
Miss Lulu Bett (1920) por Zona Gale
Ficção
The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer's Story (1878) por Anna Katharine Green
Ficção
Lummox (1924) por Fannie Hurst
Ficção
Ramona (1884) por Helen Hunt Jackson
Ficção
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) por Sarah Orne Jewett
Ficção
To Have and to Hold (1899) por Mary Johnston
Ficção
Mother (1911) por Kathleen Norris
Ficção
Scarlet Sister Mary (1928) por Julia Peterkin
Ficção
The Gates Ajar (1869) por Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ficção
The Time of Man: A Novel (1926) por Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Ficção
The Little French Girl (1924) por Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Ficção
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) por Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ficção
Ethan Frome (1911) por Edith Wharton
Ficção
The Peterkin Papers (1880) por Lucretia P. Hale
Humor
Josiah Allen's Wife As a P. A. and P. I. Samantha At the Centennial. Designed As a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce the Fogs of Error and Injustice That Surround Society and Josiah, and to Bring More Clearly to View the Path... (1888) por Marietta Holley
Humor
American Humor: a Study of the National Character (1931) por Constance Rourke
Humor
Little Women (1868) por Louisa May Alcott
Juvenile
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) por Frances Hodgson Burnett
Juvenile
The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1930) por Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Juvenile
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (1865) por Mary Mapes Dodge
Juvenile
Elsie Dinsmore (1867) por Martha Finley
Juvenile
Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple (1868) por Sophie May
Juvenile
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) por Alice Hegan Rice
Juvenile
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) por Margaret Sidney
Juvenile
The Wide, Wide World (1850) por Susan Warner
Juvenile
Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) por Jean Webster
Juvenile
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) por Kate Douglas Wiggin
Juvenile
H.D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (1983) por H.D.
Poesia
Alice and Phoebe Cary's Poems - The Poetical Works (1882) por Alice Cary
Poesia
Bells at evening and other verses (2011) por Fanny Crosby
Poesia
Honey out of the rock (1925) por Babette Deutsch
Poesia
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1955) por Emily Dickinson
Poesia
Later lyrics (2012) por Julia Ward Howe
Poesia
Renascence and Other Poems (1917) por Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poesia
The poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton por Louise Chandler Moulton
Poesia
Death and taxes (1931) por Dorothy Parker
Poesia
The selected poems of Lizette Woodworth Reese (2013) por Lizette Woodworth Reese
Poesia
Fiddler's Farewell (1926) por Leonora Speyer
Poesia
Rivers to the Sea (1915) por Sara Teasdale
Poesia
Lyrics and sonnets (1887) por Edith M. Thomas
Poesia
Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie (1932) por Elinor Wylie
Poesia
The Sabbath in Puritan New England (1891) por Alice Morse Earle
Religion
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875) por Mary Baker Eddy
Religion
The Franciscan adventure : a study in the first hundred years of the order of St. Francis of Assisi, (1931) por Vida Dutton Scudder
Religion
Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars (1915) por Caroline E. Furness
Science
Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life (1895) por Alice Brown
Short Stories
In the Tennessee Mountains (1884) por Charles Egbert Craddock
Short Stories
Old Chester Tales (1898) por Margaret Deland
Short Stories
A New England Nun, and Other Stories (1891) por Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Short Stories
Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History (1910) por Edith Abbott
Social Science
Woman suffrage and politics; the inner story of the suffrage movement (1923) por Carrie Chapman Catt
Social Science
Remarks on prisons and prison discipline in the United States (1845) por D. L. Dix
Social Science
My Story of the War (1887) por Mary A. Livermore
Social Science
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) por Margaret Mead
Social Science
Woman and the New Race (1920) por Margaret Sanger
Social Science
Carl Akeley's Africa (1929) por Mary L. Jobe Akeley
Travel
Spanish Highway and Byways (1900) por Katharine Lee Bates
Travel
New Orleans; the place and the people (1895) por Grace Elizabeth King
Travel
Ports and happy places; an American mother and her sons see Europe (1924) por Cornelia Stratton Parker
Travel
A woman tenderfoot in Egypt (1923) por Grace Thompson Seton
Travel
The House of Exile (1933) por Nora Waln
Travel
Husbands and homes (1865) por Marion Harland

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