MIA: Subject: Women: Fiction and Poetry
Fiction and Poetry
1870 - 1940
[If the date written is unknown, the date published is used.]
1870s
1879: Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House.
1880s
1881: Ibsen, Henrik Ghosts.
1883: Schreiner, Olive The Story of an African Farm.
1888: Bellamy, Edward Looking Backward.
1889: Schandorph, Sophus Stina Becomes a Farmer's Wife
1890s
1892: Schreiner, Olive Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story.
1896: Crane, Stephen Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
1897: Schreiner, Olive Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland.
1900s
1900: Cleveland, Rose Alice Release
1901: Pemberton, Caroline H. The Charity Girl.
1903: Pemberton, Caroline H. Song of Labor
1905: Rokeya, Begum Sultana's Dream
1906: Beals, May The Rebel at Large.
1910s
1910: Malkiel, Theresa Serber The Diary of a Shirtwaist Striker. (excerpt)
1911: Kauffman, Reginald Wright The House of Bondage.
1912: Baker, Estelle The Rose Door.
1912: Edwards, Albert (Arthur Bullard) From A Man's World.
1913: Edwards, Albert (Arthur Bullard) From Comrade Yetta.
1913: Sinclair, Upton Damaged Goods.
1913: Flexner, Hortense The Fire-Watchers
1913: Stokes, Rose Pastor Paterson
1914: Dell, Floyd The Beating, Why Mona Smiled
1914: Tietjens, Eunice The Drug Clerk
1915: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Herland
1915: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Wolf at the Door
1915: Beals, May Bound
1915: Beals, May The Miner's Tale
1915: Oppenheim, James Bread and Roses
1915: Frank, Florence Kiper A Girl Strike-Leader
1915: Barker, Elsa Breshkovskaya
1915: King, Edward A Woman's Execution
1916: Forbes, Helen The Hunky Woman
1917: Bell, Josephine A Tribute
1918: Untermeyer, Jean Starr Church Sociable
1918: Ridge, Lola The Ghetto and other poems
191?: Hall, Hazel Puzzled Stitches
1920s
1920: Ridge, Lola Sunup and other poems
1925: Cleghorn, Sarah N. The Mother Follows
1925: Deutsch, Babette Petrograd
1925: Field, Mary Names
1925: Herendeen, Anne Revolution
1926: Ridge, Lola Histrionics
1927: Kollontai, Alexandra Red Love.
1927: Niyazi, Khamza Khakimzade A Song of Emancipated Women
1929: Neverov, Alexander Marya the Bolshevik
1929: Romanov, Panteleimon Black Fritters
1929: Shaginian, Marietta Three Looms
1929: Seifullina, Lydia The Old Woman
1929: Kollontai, Alexandra Great Love
1929: Kollontai, Alexandra Sisters
1929: Kollontai, Alexandra The Loves of Three Generations
1930s
1934: Bodenheim, Maxwell To a Revolutionary Girl
1934: Hughes, Langston Mother and Child
1939: Lechlitner, Ruth Forever This Spring
1939: LeSeuer, Meridel Salvation Home
1940: Taggard, Genevieve Ode in Time of Crisis
1941: Inber, Vera Candlestick "Adolf"
1930s and beyond – resources
Reading the Left–interview with Alan Wald
Last updated on: 5 January 2024