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This portal lists texts commonly associated with the modern rise of feminism through the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Photograph of a woman working in a factory, machining aircraft parts, in 1942. — Feminism

Feminist works and commentaries

An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex, by Judith Drake, 1696
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives, anonymous but attributed to Sarah Chapone, 1735
The Sentiments of an American Woman, by Esther De Berdt Reed, 1780
Original Stories from Real Life, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1788
Letters on Education with Observations on Religions and Metaphysical Subjects by Catharine Macaulay, 1790. Google Books
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
The Female Advocate, by Mary Ann Radcliffe, 1799
Enfranchisement of women, by Harriet Taylor Mill, 1851
Woman's Rights Tracts, various authors, 1854 IA
The Subjection of Women, by John Stuart Mill, 1869
Uncivil Liberty: an essay to show the injustice and impolicy of ruling woman against her consent, by Ezra Hervey Heywood, 1871
The early history of the property of married women, by Henry Sumner Maine, c.1873
Woman: Man's Equal, by Thomas Webster, 1873 Project Gutenberg Page scans at IA
Female Suffrage, article in Popular Science Monthly, 1874
The New Woman of the New South, by Josephine K. Henry, 1895
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, 1898
Woman, by Kate Austin, 1901
"The Bohemian Women in New York", in Charities, vol. 13, no. 10 (December 1904)
Woman and the Bible, by Josephine K. Henry, 1905
"Women," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
The Feminist Movement (1912) by Ethel Snowden
The Future of the Women's Movement (1913) by Helena Maria Swanwick
Women and War: An Appeal to the Women of All Nations by Frances S. Hallowes, c. 1914
"Congress of Slav women" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (7) (1918)
"Czech Women Real Patriots" by Olga Masaryk in The Czechoslovak Review, 2 (11–12) (1918)
Woman Triumphant: The Story of Her Struggles for Freedom, Education and Political Rights, by Rudolf Cronau, 1919
"Political Rights of Czechoslovak Women" by Františka Faustina Plamínková in The Czechoslovak Review, 4 (9) (1920)
United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, by the United Nations General Assembly, 1979
"The place of women in the Sokol movement" in The Sokols (1926)

Poetry

The Female Right to Literature, in a Letter to a Young Lady from Florence (poem), by Thomas Seward, 1748
The Feminiad. A poem (1754) by John Duncombe
An Essay on Woman, by Mary Leapor, external transcript
The Female Advocate, by Mary Scott, 1774 (Jisc Historical Texts (subscription required)) (Google Books)
Female Piety and Virtue, an Ode, by Thomas Gibbons, 1777
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller, 1915
Women are people! by Alice Duer Miller, 1917

Feminist fiction

The Story of Fidelia by Mary Ann Radcliffe, first published 1753
Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1788
The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1798
Emma by Jane Austen, 1816
The Yellow Wall Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1901
Herland, utopian novel about a world only of women by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1915

Biographies

"Taylor, Helen," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.

Criticism

Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women, 1897 IA
The Legal Subjection of Men, 1908 by Ernest Belfort Bax
Making a Man of Herself, 1912 by Ida Minerva Tarbell as it appeared in The American Magazine
The Business of Being a Woman, 1913 by Ida Minerva Tarbell
The Fraud of Feminism, 1913 by Ernest Belfort Bax
Woman Suffrage as Affecting the Family, 1874 by John Elliott Cairnes as it appeared in Popular Science Monthly

Feminist works and commentaries

Poetry

Feminist fiction

Biographies

Criticism

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