Dec 27, 2009

The Story of an Hour | What Do I Read Next?

The Awakening, Kate Chopin's 1899 novel, tells of Edna Pointellier, a traditional wife and mother who becomes "awakened" to sexual and spiritual independence after an extramarital affair.

"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the story of a woman who lacks an outlet for her creativity and descends into madness.

To learn about the suffragette movement and the struggle for women's rights in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, see Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences (1992), by the pioneering feminist, Elizabeth Cady...