Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Ann Marbury Hutchinson (1591 - 1643)
Transcripts from the Trial of Ann Hutchison (1637)
2. Anne Dudley Bradstreet (ca. 1612 - 1672)
"In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth Of Happy Memory" (1650)
"The Author to Her Book" (1678)
3. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (ca. 1623 - 1674)
"FEMAL ORATIONS" (1662)
4. Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614 - 1702)
Women's Speaking Justified (1666)
5. Bathsua Reginald Makin (1600 - ca. 1675)
An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Women (1673)
6. Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)
"To the Fair Clarinda" (1688)
7. Mary Astell (1663 - 1731)
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
8. Pierre Cholenec, S.J. (1641 - 1723)
From The Life of Katharine Tegakoüita, First Iroquois Virgin (1696)
9. Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670 - 1723)

10. Martha Fowke Sansom (1689 - 1736)
"On being charged with Writing incorrectly" (1710)
11. Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)

12. Anonymous
"Cloe to Artemisa" (1720)
13. Elizabeth Magawley
"Letter to the Editor of the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury" (1730/31)
14. Anonymous
"Women's Hard Fate" (1733)
15. Anonymous
"The Lady's Complaint" (1736)
16. Katherine Garret (Pequot; ? - 1738)
The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret (1738)
17. Mary Collier (b. 1679)
"The Woman's Labour" (1739)
18. Damma/Marotta/Magdalena

19. Coosaponakeesa/Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth (Creek; ca. 1700 - 1767)

20. Mary Leapor (1722 - 1746)
"Man the Monarch" (1748)
"An Essay on Woman" (1748)
21. Susanna Wright (1697 - 1784)
"To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill" (1750)
22. William Blackstone (1723 - 1780)
"Of Husband and Wife" (1765)
23. Hannah Griffitts (1727 - 1817)
"The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America" (1768)
24. Frances Moore Brooke (1725 - 1789)
From The History of Emily Montague (1769)
25. Aspasia
Reply to "The Visitant," Number XI (1769)
26. Phillis Wheatley (1753? - 1784)
"To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (1773)
Letter to Samson Occom (1774)
27. Mercy Otis Warren (1728 - 1814)
Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (1774)
28. Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex (1775)
29. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

30. Abigail Smith Adams (1744 - 1818)
Correspondence with John Adams (1776 - 1778)
31. Mary "Molly" Brant/Tekonwatonti/ Konwatsi-Tsiaienni (Mohawk; 1735/6 - 1796)

32. Esther De Berdt Reed (1747 - 1780)
The Sentiments of an American Woman (1780)
33. Nancy Ward/Nanye'Hi (Cherokee; 1738? - 1824)
Speeches (1781 - 1787)
34. Women of Wilmington
Petition (1782)
35. Belinda (b. about 1713)
Petitions for Slave Reparations (1782, 1787)
36. Judith Sargent Murray (1751 - 1820)
Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms (1784)
"On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)
37. Anonymous
Petition of the Young Ladies (1787)
38. Benjamin Rush (1746 - 1813)
From Thoughts Upon Female Education (1787)
39. Hannah More (1745 - 1833)
Slavery: A Poem (1788)
40. Anonymous

41. Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757 - 1834)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
42. Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (1731 - 1791)

43. Pauline Léon (1758 - ?)

44. Olympe de Gouges (1748 - 1793)

45. Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres (1771 - 1801)

46. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797)
From A Vindication on the Rights of Woman (1792)
47. Sarah Pierce (1767 - 1852)
"Verses to Abigail Smith" (1792)
48. Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736 - 1801)
Letter to Julia Stockton Rush on Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (ca. 1793)
49. Priscilla Mason
"Oration" (1793)
50. Anonymous

51. 1Elizabeth Hart Thwaites (1772 - 1833)
Letter from Elizabeth Hart to a Friend (1794)
52. Anonymous
"Rights of Woman" (1795)
53. Helen Maria Williams (1762 - 1827)
From Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795)
54. Anna Seward (1747 - 1809)
"To the Right Honourable, Lady Eleanor Butler" (1796)
"To Miss Ponsonby" (1796)
"To Honora Sneyd" (1773, pb. 1799)
"Elegy, Written at the Sea-Side" (1799)
55. Mary Darby Robinson (1758 - 1800)
From A Letter to the Women of England (1799)
56. François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture (ca. 1743 - 1803)

57. Deborah Sampson Gannett (1760 - 1827)
Addr[e]ss, Delivered with Applause, at the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston (1802)
58. Sarah Pogson Smith (1774 - 1870)
From The Female Enthusiast (1807)
59. Leonora Sansay (1773 - ?)

Appendix of Images

About the Author

Lisa L. Moore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Joanna Brooks is Associate Professor of English at San Diego State University.
Caroline Wigginton is ACLS New Faculty Fellow of American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Reviews

"Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions marshals an impressive range of source material to illuminate the early history of feminism in the North Atlantic world. The transnational framework knits together women's voices that span race, class and region. These sources are a comprehensive exploration of female experience in the age of revolutions." --Susan Branson, Syracuse University
"Revolutionary in conception and content, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions transcends narrow definitions of nation and identity to recover the voices-many not heard since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-of the disfranchised majority of people-women and men, European and other-claiming their rights to freedom, equality and citizenship during the 'Age of Revolutions.'" --Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland
"Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions provides a fascinating group of texts that force us to reconsider the origins of western feminism, the changing status of women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the impact of revolutionary movements on women's status." --Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University
"An important, revelatory collection...The lucid introduction lays out the theme of transatlantic feminisms and manages to be both a wonderful introduction to the field and an in-depth analysis of how the "age of revolutions" included women...Provide[s] clear notes, excellent short introductions to each piece, and a wonderful collection of images...Essential." --Choice