The Aunt Lute ANTHOLOGY of U.S.

aunt lute books SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN WRITERS

General Editors LISA MARIA HOGELAND AND . MARY KLAGES

Co-Editors SHAY BRAWN, BONNIE J. DOW, DAVID KAZANJIAN, DEBORAH T. MEEM, RHONDA PETTIT

VOLUME.;ON;E: d7th through 19th Centuries CONTENTS

v Acknowledgments xxiii Preface

i ANNE HUTCHINSON 1 The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newtown 24 from A Report of the Trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson Before the Church in Boston, March, 1638

24 ANNE BRADSTREET 1612-1672 24 The Prologue 26 In Honour of That High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory 29 The Author to Her Book 30 The Flesh and the Spirit 32 To My Dear and Loving Husband 33 Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper 34 from Meditations Divine and Moral

35 MARY EASTY 1634-1692 36 Mary Easty

42 MARY WHITE ROWLANDSON i637?-i7n? 42 from A Narrative of the Captivity and the Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

60 SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT 1666-1727 61 The Journal of Madam Knight

78 TlTUBA^N.D. • f • 78 The Examination of Tituba

87 ESTHER RODGERS 1680-1701 87 The Declaration & Confession of Esther Rodgers

98 MARY READ ?-i72o 98 The Life of Mary Read

102 ANNE BONNY 1697?-? 103 The Life of Anne Bonny

107 PATIENCE BOSTON 1711-1735 107 A Faithful Narrative of the Wicked Life and Remarkable Conversion of Patience Boston x I The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers

123 ANONYMOUS 123 Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to be Controll'd! 124 Impromptu, on Reading an Essay on Education 125 A Lady's Adieu to her Tea-Table i2s HANNAH GRIFFITTS 1727-1817 126 The Female Patriots

127 MERCY OTIS WARREN 1728-1814 127 To the Hon. J. Winthrop, Esq.

131 LUCY TERRY PRINCE 1730-1821 131 Bars Fight

132 ANNIS BOUDINOT STOCKTON 1736-1801 132 A Poetical Epistle, Addressed by a Lady of New Jersey, to Her Niece, upon Her Marriage

135 ABIGAIL ABBOT BAILEY 1746-1815

135 from The Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey

162 JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY 1751-1820 163 On the Equality of the Sexes 170 PHILLIS WHEATLEY CA. 1753-1784 170 On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA 170 On the Death of a young Lady of Five Years of Age 171 Letter to John Thornton 173 Letter to Samson Occom

173 SARAH WENTWORTH MORTON 1759-1846 174 The African Chief

175 DEBORAH SAMPSON GANNETT 1760-1827 176 Address

183 RACHEL WALL 1760-1789 184 Life, Last Words, and Dying Confession of Rachel Wall

186 SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON 1762-1824 187 Slaves in Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom

217 CHARITY BOWERY 1782-? 217 Interview with Charity Bowery

221 JARENA LEE 1783-? 222 The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee, A Coloured Lady, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel

237 MUSKINGHAM COUNTY FEMALE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY 237 Petition of Ladies, Resident in the State of Ohio CONTENTS | xi

238 ELIZA LESLIE 1787-1858 239 Lucy Nelson; or, The Boy Girl 242 from Directions for Cookery in Its Various Branches

245 EMMA WILLARD 1787-1870 245 from An Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New-York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education

255 SARAH JOSEPHA HALE 1788-1879 255 The Lloyds 269 from The Ladies' New Book of Cookery

270 CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK 1789-1867 271 Cacoethes Scribendi 280 The Irish Girl

289 THE LOWELL OFFERING 289 Factory Girls 292 Old Maids and Old Bachelors 295 Ann and Myself 298 Letters from Susan

301 ANN GARRISON 1791-? 301 Ann Garrison

303 LYDIA HUNTLEY SlGOURNEY 1791-1865 •' > 303 Death of an Infant 304 The Suttee 305 To the First Slave Ship 306 The Cherokee Mother 307 Indian Names 308 To a Shred of Linen 310 Laura Bridgman 311 Fallen Forests 313 Erin's Daughter 314 from Letters to Mothers

317 SARAH GRIMKE 1792-1873 317 Dress of Women

321 ALMIRA HART LINCOLN PHELPS 1793-1884 321 from Familiar Lectures on Botany

324 CATHERINE OGEE WYAN AKWUT OKWA N.D. 324 Confessions of Catherine Ogee Wyan Akwut Okwa; or, The Woman of the Blue-Robed Cloud, the Prophetess of Chegoimegon

328 MARIA GOWEN BROOKS 1794-1845 328 Farewell to Cuba 330 from Zophiel, A Poem xii I The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers

332 CAROLINE HOWARD GILMAN 1794-1888 332 The Lost Mail

337 CA. 1797-1883 337 Speech, Delivered at the 1851 Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio

338 CATHARINE E. BEECHER 1800-1878 339 from Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education 341 from An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females 353 from Treatise on Domestic Economy, for the Use of Young Ladies At Home and At School 356 from The American Woman's Home (with Harriet Beecher Stowe)

36i CAROLINE LEE WHITING HENTZ 1800-1856 361 The Blind Girl's Story

373 JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT (BAME-WA-WAS-GE-ZHIK-A-QUAY) 1800-1841 374 Invocation to My Maternal Grandfather on Hearing His Descent from Chippewa Ancestors Misrepresented 375 Origin of the Miscodeed; or, The Maid of Taquimenon

377 CAROLINE MATILDA KIRKLAND 1801-1864 377 Mrs. Pell's Pilgrimage

386 MARIA ANTONIA CASTRO 1802-? 386 A California Lion and a Pirate

389 LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD 1802-1880 389 from The Mother's Book 395 from Letters from New-York

400 MARY POPE N.D. 400 Interview with Mary Pope

402 MARIA J. MCINTOSH 1803-1878 402 from Woman in America: Her Work and Her Reward

408 MARIA W. MILLER STEWART 1803-1879 409 Lecture, Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, Sept. 21, 1832

412 SARAH WHITMAN 1803-1878 412 To-— 413 ToE. O. S. 413 "Science."

414 ANGELINA GRIMKE WELD 1805-1879 414 Address at Pennsylvania Hall

4i8 EMMA CATHERINE EMBURY 1806-1863 418 Madame de Stael 420 The Count and the Cousin CONTENTS | Xtii

425 ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH 1806-1893 426 The Drowned Mariner 428 Strength from the Hills 428 The Poet

429 MARGARET FULLER 1810-1850 430 Educate Men and Women As Souls 431 Household Nobleness

433 ANN SOPHIA STEPHENS 1810-1886 434 Literary Ladies 444 The Hindoo Slave

447 FANNY FERN CSARAH PAYSON WILLIS) 1811-1872 447 Advice to Ladies 448 Aunt Hetty on Matrimony 449 Borrowed Light 450 Important for Married Men 451 Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom 452 Thorns for the Rose 456 The Working-Girls of New York

460 FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD 1811-1850 460 The Daisy's Mistake 462 The Lily's Delusion 462 To the Spirit of Poetry 464 He Bade Me Be Happy 464 Ah! Woman Still 465 Caprice 466 Forgive and Forget 467 Woman

469 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 1811-1896 469 The Ravages of a Carpet 477 The Minister's Housekeeper 485 from The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

490 FRANCES MIRIAM BERRY WHITCHER I8II?-I852 490 from Widow Bedott Papers

493 SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER 1813-1894 493 The Lumley Autograph

510 ELIZA W. FARNHAM 1813-1864 511 from California In-Doors and Out

529 HARRIET JACOBS CA. 1813-1897 530 from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

534 ELIZA DUPUY 1814-1881 534 The Partners xiv | The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers

541 SARAH LOUISA FORTEN 1814-1883 . - 541 The Grave of the Slave 542 An Appeal to Woman '

542 PENNY PATCH N.D. 542 The Finishing Seminary for Young Ladies

549 ANNA G N.D. 549 Lilly Martin's Three Dollar Bill

556 BRIGIDA BRIONES N.D. 556 A Carnival Ball at Monterey in 1829 558 A Glimpse of Domestic Life in 1827

559 ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS 1815-1852 559 The Angel Over the Right Shoulder; or, The Beginning of a New Year

565 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON 1815-1902 565 The Solitude of Self

572 BETHANY VENEY 1815?-? 572 The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman

588 ELIZABETH PACKARD 1816-1897 588 from Marital Power Exemplified

594 AMALIA SlBRIAN N.D. 594 A Spanish Girl's Journey from Monterey to Los Angeles

596 MARY H. EASTMAN 1818-1887 596 Wenona; or, The Virgin's Feast

602 ROSA BARNWELL N.D. 602 Rosa Barnwell

603 JULIA WARD HOWE 1819-1910 603 Coquette et Froide 604 Mother Mind 605 Battle-Hymn of the Republic 605 Rouge Gagne 606 The Tea-Party 607 To the Critic 607 Appeal to Womanhood throughout the World

608 ANNA CORA MOWATT 1819-1870 609 Fashion! or, Life in New York

647 E.D.E.N. SOUTHWORTH 1819-1899 648 Winny: A Child's Story

656 AMELIA WELBY 1819-1852 657 On Entering the Mammoth Cave CONTENTS | XV

660 MARY B. HORNE N.D. 660 The Darktown Bicycle Club Scandal

671 NELLIE H. BRADLEY N.D. 672 The First Glass; or, The Power of Woman's Influence

679 ALICE CARY 1820-1871 679 Pictures of Memory 680 Morna 681 The Bridal Veil - 682 The Sea-Side Cave 683 To the Muse

684 ANN PLATO 1820-? 684 Lines, Written Upon Being Examined in School Studies for the Preparation of a Teacher 685 The Natives of America 686 To the First of August

687 ELIZA POTTER 1820-? 688 from A Hair-Dresser's Experience in High Life

703 SENECA FALLS WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION 703 Declaration of Sentiments

706 ELIZABETH BLACKWELL 1821-1910 706 from The Laws of Life, with Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls

718 MARIA WHITE LOWELL 1821-1853 718 Africa 721 An Opium Fantasy

722 CAROLINE WELLS HEALEY DALL 1822-1912 722 from The United-States Law, and Some Thoughts on Human Rights

731 GRACE GREENWOOD CSARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTTI 1823-1904 731 My First Hunting and Fishing

736 ELIZABETH STODDARD 1823-1903 736 Collected by a Valetudinarian

753 PHOEBE CARY 1824-1871 754 The Christian Woman 755 Samuel Brown 756 The Wife 756 The Hunter and the Doe 757 Was He Henpecked? 759 Do You Blame Her? xvi | The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers

761 LUCY LARCOM 1824-1893 761 A Loyal Woman's No 763 Weaving 765 A Little Old Girl 766 Fallow

767 ANNA BARTLETT WARNER 1824-1915 767 Two Picnics

779 A.D.T. WHITNEY 1824-1906 779 Brahmic 779 Pickle Peppers 780 Victuals and Drink

782 CAROLINE CHESEBRO' 1825-1873 782 Knights of the Cross

793 FRANCES E.W. HARPER 1825-1911 793 Bible Defence of Slavery 794 Bury Me in a Free Land 795 Vashti 796 Aunt Chloe's Politics 797 Learning to Read 798 A Double Standard 799 An Appeal to My Countrywomen 801 The Ragged Stocking 803 The Mission of the Flowers 804 The Colored People in America

805 ROSE TERRY COOKE 1827-1892 806 Captive 806 Blue-Beard's Closet 808 Grit

821 ALICE B. INEAL HAVEN 1827-1863 821 Marrying a Planter

839 LADIES OF STEUBENVILLE, OHIO 840 Memorial

84i EMILY DICKINSON 1830-1886 842 (236) Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 842 (256) The Robin's my Criterion for Tune 842 (269) Wild nights -Wild nights 843 (282) We play at Paste 843 (307) A solemn thing - it was -1 said 844 (320) There's a certain Slant of light 844 (340) I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 845 (359) A bird came down the walk 845 (373) This World is not conclusion 846 (407) One need not be a chamber — to be Haunted 846 (409) The Soul selects her own Society CONTENTS | XVii

847 (445) They shut me up in Prose 847 (477) He fumbles at your Soul 847 (479) Because I could not stop for Death 848 (627) I think I was enchanted 849 (675) What Soft - Cherubic Creatures 849 (764) My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun 850 (772) Essential Oils - are wrung 850 (804) Ample make this Bed 850 (817) This Consciousness that is aware 851 (905) Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music 851 (1096) A narrow fellow in the grass 852 (1107) My Cocoon tightens - Colors teaze 852 (1263) Tell all the truth but tell it slant 852 (1489) A Route of Evanescence " 853 (1491) To see the Summer Sky 853 (1551) 'Tis seasons since the Dimpled War 853 (1743) On my volcano grows the Grass

854 MARION HARLAND (MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNE) 1830-1922 854 Seven Years 870 from Eve's Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother

875 HELEN HUNT JACKSON 1830-1885 875 My Strawberry 876 Poppies on the Wheat 877 Spinning 878 The Way to Sing 879 Form 879 Vintage 880 Esther 880 The Heart of a Rose 881 Vashti 881 from A Century of Dishonor

892 ZARAGOZA CLUB POETS 893 El Cinco de Mayo (On the Fifth of May) 895 Homenajes de gratitud (Homages of Gratitude)

900 ELLA RODMAN CHURCH 1831-? 900 Money-Making for Ladies

906 REBECCA HARDING DAVIS 1831-1910 906 Marcia 911 Married People

920 METTA VICTORIA VICTOR 1831-1885 920 The Unclaimed Portrait

933 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832-1888 934 Perilous Play 942 Pansies xviii | The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers

953 MARY E. WALKER 1832-1919 954 from Hit

966 GAIL HAMILTON

970 ALICE B. STOCKHAM 1833-1912 970 from Tokology

976 ANNIE FIELDS 1834-1915 977 Endymion 977 Herb Yarrow 978 Home 978 The Poet's Choice

979 SUSAN COOLIDGE (SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY) 1835-1905 979 A Blind Singer 981 Gulf-Stream 981 My Rights 983 November 983 Prelude

984 ADAH ISAACS MENKEN I835?-I868 985 Answer Me 986 Infelix 987 Judith

989 HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD 1835-1921 989 Her Story

1002 CELIA THAXTER 1835-1894 1002 Land-Locked 1003 Alone 1003 The Minute-Guns 1004 Two Sonnets

1005 MARY L. DAY 1836-? 1005 from Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl

1008 JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE (MARIETTA HOLLEYJ 1836-1926 1009 Wimmen's Speah

1016 SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT 1836-1919 1016 To 1017 Giving Back the Flower 1018 Stone for a Statue 1018 Over in Kentucky 1019 The Black Princess 1020 The Palace-Burner 1021 A Neighborhood Incident 1022 A Child's Party CONTENTS | xix

1026 VICTORIA WOODHULL 1838-1927 1026 fromAn d the Truth shall make you Free

1036 HELEN CAMPBELL 1839-1918 1036 fromPrisoner s of Poverty io4i FRANCES E. WILLARD 1839-1898 1042 Temperance and Home Protection

1048 CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON 1840-1894 1048 Miss Grief

1063 INA D. COOLBRITH 1841-1928 1063 Helen Hunt Jackson 1064 The Captive of the White City 1066 The Mariposa Lily 1066 Woman

1068 SARAH EMMA EDMONDS 1841-1898 1068 fromNurs e and Spy in the

1074 LORETA JANETA VELAZQUEZ 1842-? 1075from Th e Woman in Battle

1095 SARAH WINNEMUCCA HOPKINS (THOCMETONY) 1095 from Life Among the Piutes

1115 ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (WARD) 1844-1911 1116 What Did She See With?

1129 FANNY KELLY 1845-1904 1129 from Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians

1137 MARY HALLOCK FOOTE 1847-1938 1137 The Cascarone Ball

1142 SARAH ORNE JEWETT 1849-1909 1142 The Flight of Betsey Lane 1155 The Town Poor

1162 EMMA LAZARUS 1849-1887 1163 How Long? 1164 In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport 1165 Sympathy 1165 The South 1167 Echoes 1167 The Crowing of the Red Cock 1168 The Feast of Lights 1169 1492 1170 The New Colossus 1170 from An Epistle to the Hebrews xx I The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers ii72 H. CORDELIA RAY 1849-1916 1173 Niobe 1173 Life 1173 Self-Mastery

1174 KATE CHOPIN 1851-1904 1174 Desiree's Baby 1178 Athdnaise

1199 MARY NOAILLES MURFREE 1850-1922 1199 The "Harnt" That Walks Chilhowee

1213 OCTAVE THANET (ALICE FRENCH) 1850-1934 1213 Haifa Curse

1225 MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN 1852-1930 1225 A Poetess 1234 The Long Arm

1254 LIZZIE GIBSON 1852-? 1254 Lizzie Gibson

1255 EDITH THOMAS 1854-1925 1255 Losses 1256 The Deep-Sea Pearl 1257 Anima Urbis 1257 The Etherial Hunger

1258 AGNES REPPLIER 1258 Books That Have Hindered Me

1262 LlZETTE WOODWORTH REESE 1856-1935 1263 Early September 1263 In Time of Grief 1263 Telling the Bees 1264 White Flags

1264 KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN 1856-1923 1265 Children's Rights

1273 ANNA JULIA COOPER 1273 The Status of Woman in America

1280 CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN 1860-1935 1281 The Anti-Suffragists 1282 Homes 1283 The Yellow Wall-Paper

1294 LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY 1861-1920 1294 To a Most Comely Lady 1295 A Talisman CONTENTS | XXI

1295 Nocturne 1296 Open, Time 1296 Spring Nightfall 1297 Emily Bront6 1297 Astraea 1298 Of Joan's Youth

1298 SOPHIE JEWETT I861-1909 1298 Song 1299 Entre Nous 1299 I Speak Your Name 1300 With a Copy of Wharton's "Sappho" 1300 With a Daffodil

1301 MARY WESTON FORDHAM 1862-? 1301 Atlanta Exposition Ode 1302 The Coming Woman 1303 The Washerwoman

1304 IDA B. WELLS 1862-1931 1305 Southern Horrors

1320 NELLIE BLY (ELIZABETH JANE COCHRAN) 1864-1922 1320 from Ten Days in a Mad-House

1335 "A WORKING GIRL" N.D." 1335 Eugenie's Fete Day

1341 VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE 1866-1912 1342 Ave et Vale 1345 Betrayed

1350 NISHIMURA EKIU V. UNITED STATES 1350 from Nishimura Ekiu v. United States

1352 ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON 1875-1935 1353 By the Bayou St. John 1354 Sister Josepha

1359 LILAC CHEN CA. 1887-? 1359 Lilac Chen

1365 Index 1375 Permissions 1379 Editors