Louisa May Alcott wrote this biting satire on life in a 19th century Utopian community, based on her own family’s experience at Fruitlands. She portrays the father figure as a dreamer and idealist, and the mother as the practical one who has to do all the work to meet worldly needs like food and shelter.
Read MoreLouisa May Alcott wrote this Thanksgiving story in 1881. In this selection you’ll find a vivid description of a New England family, “poor in money, but rich in land and love,” and their Thanksgiving dinner. The...
Read MoreIn 1882, Louisa May Alcott, a neighbor and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote her memories of Emerson for publication. Here’s the essay she wrote.
Read MoreAlice Freeman Palmer was most noted as an educator, but she also wrote poetry. Here are three of her published poems: THE BUTTERFLY I hold you at last in my hand, Exquisite child of the air. Can I ever understand How you grew...
Read MoreAn address by Alice Freeman Parker, a president of Wellesley College, on the purpose and advantages of higher education for women. To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are opening every year. Every year...
Read Morefirst published in the Woman Citizen, Vol. 8, February 23, 1924, pages 17-18. By Margaret Sanger. Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed,...
Read MoreThis version, written down about 30 years after the event, has likely been influenced by literary trends including reproducing speech as dialect. Recent scholarship disputes whether this is an accurate representation of...
Read MoreAddress To The First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association Frances Dana Gage, May 9, 1867 The following is the text of an address delivered on May 9, 1867, to the second meeting of the American Equal Rights...
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