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Women in the 19th Century - Representative Works

Lydia Becker

Woman's Suffrage Journal [editor] (journal) 1870s

Barbara Leigh-Smith Bodichon

"A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Together with a Few Observations" (essay) 1854

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre (novel) 1847

Villette (novel) 1853

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights (novel) 1847

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper

"Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race" (essay) 1886

Frederick Douglass

"Why I Became a Woman's Rights Man" (essay) 1881

George Eliot

Adam Bede (novel) 1859

Charles Fourier

"Degradation of Women in Civilization" (essay) 1808

Margaret Fuller

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (nonfiction) 1845

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