＊ More than 170 writers-45 newly included-representing the exuberant variety of women’s writing in English from the medieval period to the present day.





Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance



＊ Nearly doubled in length, with four new writers-Juliana Berners, Isabella Whitney, Elizabeth Cary, and Mary Wroth---and expanded selections by Mary Sidney Herbert and Aemilia Lanyer.





Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries



＊ Much-enriched poetry selections by 5 poets and newly included poets Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell.



＊ Two major prose additions: Aphra Behn’s early novel Oroonoko, and Eliza Haywood’s lively romance Fantomina.





Literature of the Nineteenth Century



＊ An enriched presentation of Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, Fanny Fern, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frances E. W. Harper.



＊ A major prose addition: Maria Edgeworth’s The Grateful Negro.





Turn-of-the Century Literature



＊ Four new stories by Constance Woolson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Sinclair, and Mary Austin.



＊ New poems by charlotte Perkins Gilman.





Early-Twentieth-Century Literature



＊ Expanded selections by the major modernists Virginia Woolf, Amy Lowell, H. D., and Edna St. Vincent Millay.



＊ Newly anthologized: Gertrude Bonnia(Zitkala Sa), Mina Loy, Anne Spencer, and Marita Bonner.





Later-Twentieth-Century Literature



＊ 33 new, culturally diverse writers newly anthologized, among them Dilys Laing, Hisaye Yamamoto, Cynthia Ozick, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, Eavan Boland, Buchi Emecheta, Jamaica Kincaid, Rita Dove, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Gloria Anzaldua, Louise Erdrich, and Cathy Song.




*編者是美國當二位知名的女性主義評論家。



*修訂新版內容更豐富, 包括中世紀的Margret Kempe及其他作家, 文藝復興伊莉莎白一世的詩選及演講, 十七、十八世紀女性文學(如Mary Wollstonecraft等), 十九世紀女性文學(如Jane Austin, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Browning等)、現代、當代女性文學(如Anais Nin, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bishop, Tillie Olsen, Carson McCullers, Doris Lessing, Flannery O’connor, Anne Sexton, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker等)



*本書可增進讀者對女性作家的想法, 以及女性在文學史上的地位有更完整的了解。