George and Barbara Perkins

WOMEN'S WORK, edited by Barbara and George Perkins and Robyn Warhol, McGraw-Hill, 1994, is a history and anthology of American women’s stories, essays, diaries, letters, poetry, and plays. The order is chronological, and includes selections from the following authors:

Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Sojourner Truth, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Margaret Fuller, Fanny Fern (Sarah Payson Willis), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Susan Warner, Alice Cary, Rose Terry Cooke, Emily Dickinson, Rebecca Harding Davis, Luisa May Alcott, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Sarah Morgan, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Mary Noilles Murfree, Grace Elizabeth King, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Mary Austin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, Susan Glaspell, Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Elinor Wylie, H. D., Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Zora Neale Hurston, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Caroline Gordon, Mari Sandoz, Louise Bogan, Meridel Le Seur, Lillian Hellman, Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Tillie Olsen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amy Clampitt, Hisaye Yamamoto, Denise Levertov, Flannery O’Connor, Maya Angelou, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Maxine Hong Kingston, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bharati Mukherjee, Louise Gluck, Alice Walker, Anne Beattie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rita Dove, Amy Tan, Louise Erdrich

Each author is introduced with a biographical and critical essay and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Summary essays introduce "American Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" and "Twentieth-Century Women Writers."