Women's Studies Books

Anne of Avonlea

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea is a Canadian and American novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1909. Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of ..

The Adventures of Arabella

Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. Published in 1752, two years after she ..

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Aristophanes (446 - 386 BC), also known as the "Father" or "Prince" of ancient comedy, was one of ancient Athens' most famous playwrights. Only eleven of his forty plays exist in their entirety, but w..

The Hermit and the Wild Woman

Edith Wharton

The Hermit and the Wild Woman is a collection of short stories written by Edith Wharton, an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. ..

What a Young Woman Ought to Know

Mary Wood-Allen

What a Young Woman Ought to Know is a book which any mother can place with confidence in the hands of her daughter. Written by Mary Wood-Allen, an American doctor, social reformer, lecturer,..

Bambi

Marjorie Benton Cooke

Bambi is a fiction novel written by Marjorie Benton Cooke, an American monologist, playwright, and novelist. A specialist in comic dramatic sketches and light romantic fiction, she also wrote and perf..

The Wide, Wide World

Susan Warner

The Wide, Wide World is an 1850 novel by Susan Warner, published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. It is often acclaimed as America's first bestseller...

A Dominie in Doubt

Alexander Sutherland Neill

The continuation of Alexander Sutherland Neill's classic Dominie Series about a beloved school teacher whose engaging and nurturing methods educate students and help them mature. Neill's educational p..