Paula Bernat's anthology, based on seven years of pioneering archival research, establishes nineteenth-century American women's poetry as a major field in American literature and American women's history.Alphabetical List of Authors in Section II.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Section I: Principle Poets:.
1. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865):.
Poems (1827):The Alpine Flowers, The Suttee, Death of an Infant.
Cherokee Phoenix (1831): The Cherokee Mother.
Poems (1834): Flora's Party, Indian Names.
Family Magazine (1834): The Western Emigrant.
Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (1836): The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers.
Select Poems (1842): The Volunteer.
Christian Parlor Magazine (1844): A Scene at Sea.
Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend (1849): Morning.
The Western Home, and Other Poems (1854): Fallen Forests (Scenes in My Native Land 1845), Bell of the Wreck.
2. Maria Gowen Brooks (1794?-1845).
Zóphië, or the Bride of Seven (1833).
Canto First: Grove of Acacias, Sections L-XCVII.
3. Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806).
Southern Literary Messenger (1842).
The Sinless Child: A Poem in Seven Parts: Part VI, Part VII.
The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1845): The Drowned Mariner.
4. Frances Anne Butler Kemble (1809-1893).
Poems (1844): Sonnet: There's not a fibre in ml£#