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Trifles (1916) is Susan Glaspell's most famous work. This one-act play is a murder mystery that explores the different way in which men and women see the world. It is recognized as an early example of a play that portrays "female bonding."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1899) is a short story that explores a woman's slow descent into madness. It is a staple text for feminist historians.

Elmer Rice's play The Adding Machine (1923) explores the effect the machine age has had upon man . It is still a widely-studied and widelyperformed piece of expressionistic drama.

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927) is a stream-of-consciousness novel, a style that was popular in the 1920s . It is considered to be one of the most important works of feminist fiction of all time

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1976),...
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