March 2009 Reading List -- Women's History Month
In March, we'll be focusing on the work of female authors, in honor of Women's History Month. Here's the list:
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Aurora Leigh" and "Mother and Poet"
- Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence and House of Mirth
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening
- Emily Dickinson: Complete Poems (also available a the JSCC Library's online catalog and in a print book [PS1541.A1 1960].)
- Christina Rossetti: "In an Artist's Studio"
- Stevie Smith: "Not Waving but Drowning"
- Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own (Also available in print at JSCC's Library at PN471.W69.)
- May Swenson: "Women"
- Amy Lowell: "Patterns"
Please read as many of the pieces as possible before the group meeting so facilitate discussion!