Introduction
1. Ann Marbury Hutchinson (1591 - 1643)
Transcripts from the Trial of Ann Hutchison (1637)
2. Anne Dudley Bradstreet (ca. 1612 - 1672)
"In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth Of Happy Memory" (1650)
"The Author to Her Book" (1678)
3. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (ca. 1623 - 1674)
"FEMAL ORATIONS" (1662)
4. Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614 - 1702)
Women's Speaking Justified (1666)
5. Bathsua Reginald Makin (1600 - ca. 1675)
An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Women (1673)
6. Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)
"To the Fair Clarinda" (1688)
7. Mary Astell (1663 - 1731)
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
8. Pierre Cholenec, S.J. (1641 - 1723)
From The Life of Katharine Tegakoüita, First Iroquois Virgin (1696)
9. Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670 - 1723)

10. Martha Fowke Sansom (1689 - 1736)
"On being charged with Writing incorrectly" (1710)
11. Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)

12. Anonymous
"Cloe to Artemisa" (1720)
13. Elizabeth Magawley
"Letter to the Editor of the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury" (1730/31)
14. Anonymous
"Women's Hard Fate" (1733)
15. Anonymous
"The Lady's Complaint" (1736)
16. Katherine Garret (Pequot; ? - 1738)
The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret (1738)
17. Mary Collier (b. 1679)
"The Woman's Labour" (1739)
18. Damma/Marotta/Magdalena

19. Coosaponakeesa/Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth (Creek; ca. 1700 - 1767)

20. Mary Leapor (1722 - 1746)
"Man the Monarch" (1748)
"An Essay on Woman" (1748)
21. Susanna Wright (1697 - 1784)
"To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill" (1750)
22. William Blackstone (1723 - 1780)
"Of Husband and Wife" (1765)
23. Hannah Griffitts (1727 - 1817)
"The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America" (1768)
24. Frances Moore Brooke (1725 - 1789)
From The History of Emily Montague (1769)
25. Aspasia
Reply to "The Visitant," Number XI (1769)
26. Phillis Wheatley (1753? - 1784)
"To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (1773)
Letter to Samson Occom (1774)
27. Mercy Otis Warren (1728 - 1814)
Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (1774)
28. Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (1775)
29. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

30. Abigail Smith Adams (1744 - 1818)
Correspondence with John Adams (1776 - 1778)
31. Mary "Molly" Brant/Tekonwatonti/ Konwatsi-Tsiaienni (Mohawk; 1735/6 - 1796)

32. Esther De Berdt Reed (1747 - 1780)
The Sentiments of an American Woman (1780)
33. Nancy Ward/Nanye'Hi (Cherokee; 1738? - 1824)
Speeches (1781 - 1787)
34. Women of Wilmington
Petition (1782)
35. Belinda (b. about 1713)
Petitions for Slave Reparations (1782, 1787)
36. Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820)
Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms (1784)
"On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)
37. Anonymous
Petition of the Young Ladies (1787)
38. Benjamin Rush (1746 - 1813)
From Thoughts Upon Female Education (1787)
39. Hannah More (1745 - 1833)
Slavery: A Poem (1788)
40. Anonymous

41. Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
42. Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (1731 - 1791)

43. Pauline Léon (1758 - ?)

44. Olympe de Gouges (1748 - 1793)

45. Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres (1771 - 1801)

46. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797)
From A Vindication on the Rights of Woman (1792)
47. Sarah Pierce (1767 - 1852)
"Verses to Abigail Smith" (1792)
48. Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736 - 1801)
Letter to Julia Stockton Rush on Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (ca. 1793)
49. Priscilla Mason
"Oration" (1793)
50. Anonymous

51. 1Elizabeth Hart Thwaites (1772 - 1833)
Letter from Elizabeth Hart to a Friend (1794)
52. Anonymous
"Rights of Woman" (1795)
53. Helen Maria Williams (1762 - 1827)
From Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795)
54. Anna Seward (1747 - 1809)
"To the Right Honourable, Lady Eleanor Butler" (1796)
"To Miss Ponsonby" (1796)
"To Honora Sneyd" (1773, pb. 1799)
"Elegy, Written at the Sea-Side" (1799)
55. Mary Darby Robinson (1758 - 1800)
From A Letter to the Women of England (1799)
56. François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture (ca. 1743 - 1803)

57. Deborah Sampson Gannett (1760 - 1827)
Addr[e]ss, Delivered with Applause, at the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston (1802)
58. Sarah Pogson Smith (1774 - 1870)
From The Female Enthusiast (1807)
59. Leonora Sansay (1773 - ?)

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