Norton Anthology of Women's Literature

A sweeping, foundational collection that brings together centuries of women’s writing—from poets and novelists to diarists and essayists—tracing the evolution of women’s voices, struggles, and creative power across time and culture.

Featuring writers such as Sappho, Christine de Pizan, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, and Adrienne Rich, the anthology maps a lineage of women who shaped—and reshaped—the literary canon.