theSE BOOKS FEATURE POWERFUL VOICES OF WOMEN.
Writing is a challenging enough vocation. To pursue this calling even against the tides of sexism and patriarchy deserves special recognition. Which is why we want to highlight these titles and works that feature women’s voices across time, genre, fiction, and non-fiction.
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Women of the Civil War.
The role of women during the U.S. Civil War has often been secondary to the stories of their male counterparts. These three works offer a corrective to that injustice. In this collection you will find Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott of Little Women fame; the stirring account, Nurse & Spy in the Union Army by S. Emma E. Edmonds; and Woman’s Work in the Civil War, a contemporaneous attempt by L.P. Brockett to try to record the contributions of women at the time.
Phillis Wheatley, Ida Wells, Pauline Hopkins, & Zora Neale Hurston.
They are trailblazers, pioneers, and luminaries. This collection of Black women writers represents some of the best America has to offer in terms of courageous artists and activists willing to speak truth to power. These women did so with grace, elegance, and persuasion. Their work spans the colonial period to the twentieth century, providing a definitive glimpse of what it was like to live and write at the intersection of race, gender, and class in America. Their poetry, prose, and plays provide a valuable perspective to contemporary readers grappling with the complexities of intersectionality today.
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Kate Drumgoold, Elizabeth Keckley.
"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it." — Sojourner Truth
“There are two things I’ve got a right to, and these are, Death or Liberty — one or the other I mean to have. No one will take me back alive; I shall fight for my liberty, and when the time has come for me to go, the Lord will let them, kill me." — Harriet Tubman
Virginia Woolf
With lyrical and insightful prose, Virginia Woolf is one of the most significant women writers of the contemporary era. Her impact on modern writing can not be overstated. Her stream of consciousness style and the psychological depth of her characters laid the groundwork for the century of literature that followed.
Pauline Hopkins
Pauline Hopkins’ masterful novel Of One Blood - The Hidden Self is a ground breaking work from a woman who was a trailblazer in so many ways. Her novel explores the complexities of intersectionality, class, and social divisions. It is set against a backdrop of an epic journey to an advanced yet ancient African civilization that, by no exaggeration, is the predecessor to the Kingdom of Wakanda—this a full one hundred years before Black Panther would explode into the popular imagination.
Mary Shelley
The Last Man is one of the first post apocalyptic, dystopian novels. It was far ahead of its time and underappreciated in Shelley’s lifetime. Mostly lost to history in the 1960s it began to resurface in literary circles when its status as a forerunner of a whole genre of science fiction was recognized. Shelley’s other seminal work, Frankenstein, is also available in the Tenebray Press Classic Collection, Masters of Horror.
Edith Nesbit’s Book of Dragons and more. . .
One of the corner stones of modern fantasy, Edith Nesbit’s Book of Dragon’s is as entertaining to read today as it was when it was first written in 1899. This collection also includes Grim Tales, her works of Gothic horror and mystery, followed by a series of her young adult fantasy stories, progenitors of beloved tales from Goonies to Harry Potter.