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

Attributo da National Council of Women

98 opere 116,026 libri 1,841 recensioni 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.
Categorie:
Tutto, Biografia (17), Dramma (6), Essays (5), Narrativa (21), Umorismo (3), Juvenile (11), Poesia (14), Religion (3), Science (1), Racconti brevi (4), Social Science (6), Travel (6), Nessuna categoria (1)
OperaCategoria
Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) di Jane Addams
Biografia
Catherine the Great (1925) di Katharine Anthony
Biografia
The Promised Land (1912) di Mary Antin
Biografia
Earth Horizon: An Autobiography (1932) di Mary Hunter Austin
Biografia
The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1972) di Martha Dickinson Bianchi
Biografia
Grandmother Brown's hundred years, 1827-1927 (1929) di Harriet Connor Brown
Biografia
Mozart (1932) di Marcia Davenport
Biografia
Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women (Women in America: from colonial times to the 20th century) (1934) di Inez Haynes Irwin
Biografia
La storia della mia vita (1903) di Helen Keller
Biografia
A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory (1889) di Lucy Larcom
Biografia
John Keats (1925) di Amy Lowell
Biografia
Pere Marquette (1929) di Agnes Repplier
Biografia
My Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1921) di Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Biografia
The Story of a Pioneer (1994) di Anna Howard Shaw
Biografia
History of woman suffrage (1970) di Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Biografia
The life of Abraham Lincoln, drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished (1900) di Ida M. Tarbell
Biografia
Glimpses of fifty years; the autobiography of an American woman (1889) di Frances E. Willard
Biografia
When Ladies Meet: A Comedy (1932) di Rachel Crothers
Dramma
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1912) di Eleanor Gates
Dramma
Alison's House: A Play in Three Acts (1930) di Susan Glaspell
Dramma
Fashion: Or, Life in New York(1845) (1954) di Anna Cora Mowatt
Dramma
The Piper: A Play in Four Acts (1911) di Josephine Preston Peabody
Dramma
Sun Up (1929) di Lula Vollmer
Dramma
On understanding women (1931) di Mary R. Beard
Essays
Letters from New-York (1977) di Lydia Maria Child
Essays
Literature and art (2006) di Margaret Fuller
Essays
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine (1850) di Sarah Josepha Hale
Essays
Poets & their art (1932) di Harriet Monroe
Essays
The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton (1902) di Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Narrativa
La buona terra (1931) di Pearl S. Buck
Narrativa
The Deepening Stream (1930) di Dorothy Canfield
Narrativa
La morte viene per l'arcivescovo (1927) di Willa Cather
Narrativa
Il lampionaio (1854) di Maria S. Cummins
Narrativa
St. Elmo (1866) di Augusta J. Evans
Narrativa
Show Boat (1926) di Edna Ferber
Narrativa
The Led-Horse Claim: A romance of the silver mines (1883) di Mary Hallock Foote
Narrativa
Miss Lulu Bett (1920) di Zona Gale
Narrativa
Il mistero delle due cugine (1878) di Anna Katharine Green
Narrativa
Lummox (1924) di Fannie Hurst
Narrativa
Ramona (1884) di Helen Hunt Jackson
Narrativa
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) di Sarah Orne Jewett
Narrativa
To Have and to Hold (1899) di Mary Johnston
Narrativa
Mother (1911) di Kathleen Norris
Narrativa
Scarlet Sister Mary (1928) di Julia Peterkin
Narrativa
The Gates Ajar (1869) di Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Narrativa
The Time of Man: A Novel (1926) di Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Narrativa
The Little French Girl (1924) di Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Narrativa
La capanna dello zio Tom (1852) di Harriet Beecher Stowe
Narrativa
Ethan Frome (1911) di Edith Wharton
Narrativa
The Peterkin Papers (1880) di Lucretia P. Hale
Umorismo
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) di Marietta Holley
Umorismo
American Humor: a Study of the National Character (1931) di Constance Rourke
Umorismo
Piccole donne (1868) di Louisa May Alcott
Juvenile
Il piccolo lord (1886) di Frances Hodgson Burnett
Juvenile
The Cat Who Went to Heaven (1930) di Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Juvenile
Pattini d'argento (1865) di Mary Mapes Dodge
Juvenile
Elsie Dinsmore (1867) di Martha Finley
Juvenile
Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple (1868) di Sophie May
Juvenile
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) di Alice Hegan Rice
Juvenile
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) di Margaret Sidney
Juvenile
The Wide, Wide World (1850) di Susan Warner
Juvenile
Papà Gambalunga (1912) di Jean Webster
Juvenile
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) di Kate Douglas Wiggin
Juvenile
H.D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944 (1983) di H.D.
Poesia
Alice and Phoebe Cary's Poems - The Poetical Works (1882) di Alice Cary
Poesia
Bells at evening and other verses (2011) di Fanny Crosby
Poesia
Honey out of the rock (1925) di Babette Deutsch
Poesia
Tutte le poesie (1955) di Emily Dickinson
Poesia
Later lyrics (2012) di Julia Ward Howe
Poesia
Renascence and Other Poems (1917) di Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poesia
The poems and sonnets of Louise Chandler Moulton di Louise Chandler Moulton
Poesia
Death and taxes (1931) di Dorothy Parker
Poesia
The selected poems of Lizette Woodworth Reese (2013) di Lizette Woodworth Reese
Poesia
Fiddler's Farewell (1926) di Leonora Speyer
Poesia
Rivers to the Sea (1915) di Sara Teasdale
Poesia
Lyrics and sonnets (1887) di Edith M. Thomas
Poesia
Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie (1932) di Elinor Wylie
Poesia
The Sabbath in Puritan New England (1891) di Alice Morse Earle
Religion
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875) di Mary Baker Eddy
Religion
The Franciscan adventure : a study in the first hundred years of the order of St. Francis of Assisi, (1931) di Vida Dutton Scudder
Religion
Introduction to the Study of Variable Stars (1915) di Caroline E. Furness
Science
Meadow-Grass: Tales of New England Life (1895) di Alice Brown
Racconti brevi
In the Tennessee Mountains (1884) di Charles Egbert Craddock
Racconti brevi
Old Chester Tales (1898) di Margaret Deland
Racconti brevi
A New England Nun, and Other Stories (1891) di Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Racconti brevi
Women in Industry: A Study in American Economic History (1910) di Edith Abbott
Social Science
Woman suffrage and politics; the inner story of the suffrage movement (1923) di Carrie Chapman Catt
Social Science
Remarks on prisons and prison discipline in the United States (1845) di D. L. Dix
Social Science
My Story of the War (1887) di Mary A. Livermore
Social Science
L'adolescenza in Samoa (1928) di Margaret Mead
Social Science
Woman and the New Race (1920) di Margaret Sanger
Social Science
Carl Akeley's Africa (1929) di Mary L. Jobe Akeley
Travel
Spanish Highway and Byways (1900) di Katharine Lee Bates
Travel
New Orleans; the place and the people (1895) di Grace Elizabeth King
Travel
Ports and happy places; an American mother and her sons see Europe (1924) di Cornelia Stratton Parker
Travel
A woman tenderfoot in Egypt (1923) di Grace Thompson Seton
Travel
The House of Exile (1933) di Nora Waln
Travel
Husbands and homes (1865) di Marion Harland

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