num_pages: 384
description: From the work of Lydia Sigourney Huntley to the anti-slavery poems of Sara Moore Grimke, the wealth of material in this anthology confirms the importance of writing by women in the development of a distinctive American literary tradition. Other poets included here are Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Emma Lazarus, Elizabeth Akers Allen, and Emily Dickinson.
language: English
title: She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
titlecomplete: She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Everyman's Library)
publisher: Everymans Library