The Essential Feminist Collection – 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume : Including 100+ Biographies & Memoirs of the Most Influential Women in History

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited collection of feminist masterpieces - from fictional protagonists who influenced generations of young women to the real heroines of the past, their life stories and their legacy.

Fiction:

Camilla (Fanny Burney)

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov)

Hester (Margaret Oliphant)

Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis)

Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)

The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)

Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen)

The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen)

Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen)

New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett)

A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter)

The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland)

My Ántonia (Willa Cather)

The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)

Summer (Edith Wharton)

Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)

Sisters (Ada Cambridge)

Hagar (Mary Johnston)

Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley)

The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie)

To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)

The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)

Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

Memoirs:

Madame Vigée Lebrun

Jane Austen

Caroline Herschel

Mrs. Seacole

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Emmeline Pankhurst

Biographies:

Lucretia

Sappho

Aspasia of Cyrus

Portia

Octavia

Cleopatra

Julia Domna

Zenobia

Valeria

Hypatia

Roswitha the Nun

Marie de France

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Joan of Arc

Catharine of Arragon

Anne Boleyn

Queen Elizabeth

Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen Anne

Maria Theresa

Marie Antoinette

Madame de Stael

Augustina Saragoza

Charlotte Brontë

Florence Nightingale

Harriet Tubman

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