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The Voice of American Women:An Overview of American Women Writers The Voice of American Women Harriet Beecher Stowe “Eliza made her desperate retrest across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer.” (from Uncle Tom‘s Cabin) 《汤姆大叔的小屋〉 Edith Wharton Sarah Winnemucca Kate Chopin American Women Writers For 19th-century women, writing for publication was intruding into the hitherto masculine world of letters. Many women writers remained outside or on the margins of the literary marketplace, especially during their lifetimes. Many wrote under pseudonyms笔名 or anonymously. But others became prominent writers in mid-19th-century America. The voices of women in American literary history before 1920 (a date generally marking the beginning of the modern period) reflect visions and styles as diverse as their experiences. American Women Writers Many writers were phenomenally successful in their day, subsequently fading from public memory and inadequately represented in library collections. Their works are in the process of being rediscovered and reevaluated. Important American Women Writers Anne Bradstreet(1612--1672) Margaret Fuller (1810--1850) Emily Dickinson(1830--1886) Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811--1896) Kate Chopin(1851--1904) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) Charlotte Perkins Gilman(1860-1935) Edith Wharton(1862--1937) Toni Morrison (1931-- )获Nobel Prize黑人作家 Joyce Carol Oates(1938-- ) Anne Bradstreet（教科书没有写) Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), born Anne Dudley in Northampton, England. Anne Bradstreet is one of the most important figures in the history of American Literature.? She is considered by many to be the first American poet, and her first collection of poems, “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts”, doesn‘