Faulkner, William, 184, 231
Ferguson, Mary Ann, 180n
Fern, Fanny (Sara Willis Parton), 61
Fields, Annie, 38n, 67, 74–77, 84–89, 107, 108
Fields, James T., 64, 66, 71, 75, 83, 84
Fields, Kate, 109
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 16, 18, 32n, 90n, 227
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 10, 147, 153
Flaubert, Gustave, 11–12, 143, 153
Foley, Martha, 219
Forster, E. M., 143, 226n
Frame, Janet, 31
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 74
Frémont, John Charles, 74
Fuller, Margaret, 74, 84, 87, 225
Gardner, John, 221–222
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 10n, 16, 17n, 30n, 42, 203, 227
Gibson, Charles Dana, 110n
Gide, André, 11, 33n, 153–154, 158, 173
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 42, 217, 227
Ginsberg, Allen, 219n
Glasgow, Ellen, 16, 31, 38n, 40, 184–185, 199–200, 227
Glaspell, Susan, 31, 40, 227
Godwin, Gail, 148n
Goncourt, Edmond, 171
Goncourt, Jules, 171
Gordimer, Nadine, 32n, 42
Gordon, Caroline, 32n, 219
Grau, Shirley Ann, 32n
Greeley, Horace, 54
Green, Hannah, 31
Greenberg, Joanne, 32n
Greenwood, Grace, 61
Gregory, Lady, 17n
Griffin, Susan, 32n, 181n
Gutierrez, Carlos Maria, 144
Hale, Nancy, 32n
Hamilton, Gail, 61
Hansberry, Lorraine, 31, 42
Harding, Dick, 67
Harding, Mr. Richard W., 52, 56, 74, 86, 88–89, 94
Harding, Mrs. Rachel Leet Wilson, 52, 89, 94
Harding, Rebecca. See Davis, Rebecca
Harding Harding, Wilson, 59, 75
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 36, 219, 251
Hardy, Florence Emily, 123n
Hardy, Thomas, 9; Jude the Obscure, 6, 122, 124, 263; Tess of the d’Urbervilles, 122, 123–124, 126; thirty-year prose silence, 6–7, 122–126
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 52, 60n, 65n, 66, 78–81, 154
Hawthorne, Sophia, 79–80
Heap, Jane, 219
Heilbrun, Carolyn, 254n
Hellman, Lillian, 16, 31, 42
Hemingway, Ernest, 9–10, 110n, 147, 171, 231
Heraud, Javier, 143–144
Herbert, George, 142
Herbst, Josephine, 31
Hersey, John, 147
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 64n, 128n
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 63, 76, 109
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 6, 172; fame and, 128–129; parallel between Dickinson and, 128n; religious vow, 7, 127, 129; seven-year silence, 7, 127–133
Howard, Maureen, 32n
Howard, Richard, 37n
Howe, Florence, 118
Howe, Mark de Wolfe, 77n
Hoyer, Linda, 37
Hughes, Mary Gray, 32n, 90n
Hughes, Ted, 241
Hurston, Zora Neale, 31, 44, 227
Hyman, Paula, 183
Irons, Ralph. See Schreiner, Olive
Irving, Sir Henry, 108
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 16, 17n, 42, 109
Jackson, Shirley, 32n
James, Henry, 11, 12, 20, 33n, 62, 137–138, 147, 153, 157, 162, 173, 214–215
Jameson, Storm, 32n
Jefferson, Joseph, 108
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 16, 37–38, 77n, 139, 227
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 32n
Johnson, Diane, 32n
Johnson, Josephine, 32n
Johnson, Samuel, 228
Joyce, James, 33n
Kafka, Franz, 9, 14–15, 153, 173
Kazin, Alfred, 187, 219n
Keats, John, 6
Kelley, Edith Summers, 9n, 35n
Kizer, Carolyn, 41n
Klein, Viola, 27n
Kollwitz, Käthe, 210n, 211–212
Kroeber, Theodora, 37, 42
Kumin, Maxine, 32n, 37
Kunitz, Stanley, 231n
Lagerlof, Selma, 16
Langford, Gerald, 117
Language, 239–241
Larcom, Lucy, 286
Laurence, Margaret, 32n
Lauter, Paul, 118
Lavin, Mary, 32n
Lawrence, D. H., 153
Lazarre, Jane, 211
Le Guin, Ursula, 32n
LeMoyne, Francis, 54, 56, 61, 65, 69
Leonard, John, 167
Leopardi, Giacomo, 171
Lessing, Doris, 32n, 35n, 38n, 42, 43–44, 45n
LeSueur, Meridel, 32n
Levertov, Denise, 240
Levy, Amy, 227
Lewes, George, 248
Lewis, Janet, 32n, 37, 40, 219
Lispector, Clarice, 32n
Lord, Audre, 174n
Lowell, James Russell, 60n, 63, 219n
Lowry, Malcolm, 153
Lurie, Alison, 32n
Lynes, Russell, 168n
McCarthy, Mary, 32n, 250
McCullers, Carson, 31, 187
Mailer, Norman, 29, 238
Malamud, Bernard, 147
Mallet-Joris, François, 32n
Mann, Katia, 218
Mann, Thomas, 12–13, 218
Mansfield, Katherine, 11, 16–18, 31, 40, 41, 148n, 153, 215, 227
Martineau, Harriet, 23, 42, 234
Marx, Eleanor, 112
Melville, Herman, 3, 6, 60n, 152, 155–156, 196n, 231; letter to Hawthorne, 7–8; Moby Dick, 7, 65n; Pierre, 8, 153, 220; thirty-year prose silence, 7–8, 134–136
Mew, Charlotte, 16, 227
Michel, Sonya, 183
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 38n, 227
Millett, Kate, 28, 179
Milton, John, 27n
Mirrielees, Edith, 219
Mistral, Gabriela, 16, 42, 227
Moers, Ellen, 193
Monroe, Harriet, 219
Moore, Marianne, 16
Mortimer, Penelope, 32n
Motjabai, A. G., 249
Mott, Lucretia, 86
Mullens, Jean, 28n
Munro, Alice, 32n
Murdoch, Iris, 31
Murray, Pauli, 32n
Myers, 146
Nabokov, Vladimir, 147
Newman, Charles, 37n
Nin, Anaïs, 30, 31, 43, 227
Norton, Charles Eliot, 114
Oates, Joyce Carol, 31, 38n, 147
O’Brien, Edna, 32n
O’Connor, Flannery, 31, 187
Orwell, George, 155n
Oxlie, Mary, 178
Ozick, Cynthia, 32n, 40, 251
Painter, Charlotte, 32n
Paley, Grace, 32n, 44
Parker, Dorothy, 16, 31, 40, 227
Parton, Sara Willis (Fanny Fern), 61
Patmore, Coventry, 131
Pattee, Fred, 60n
Pavese, Cesare, 153
Peabody, Elizabeth, 79–80
Petry, Ann, 32n, 37, 40
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 206–207
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart Lyon, 90n, 115n, 206–208
Piercy, Marge, 35n
Plath, Sylvia, 30, 187, 241; suicide, 35, 36, 227
Poe, Edgar Allan, 3
Porter, Katherine Anne, 9, 13, 16, 31, 40, 41, 165, 166, 175–176, 200, 216, 227
Potter, Beatrix, 243
Powell, Dawn, 32n
Proust, Marcel, 114
Randall, Margaret, 144n
Reed, John, 110n
Renard, Jules, 171
Rhys, Jean, 32n, 40, 227
Rich, Adrienne, 174n, 181n, 195n, 211, 226n
Richardson, Dorothy, 10, 16, 31, 37, 40, 227, 235–236
Richardson, Henry Handel, 16, 19, 31, 35n, 40, 200, 227, 249
Richardson, Samuel, 27n
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 12, 15–16, 34, 153, 157, 162–165
Rimb
aud, Arthur, 6, 7, 149
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 10, 16, 31, 35n, 40, 44, 227
Robinson, Lillian, 144n, 180n
Rosen, Norma, 32n
Rossetti, Christina, 16
Roth, Henry, 9n
Roth, Philip, 183
Rugama, Leonel, 144
Rush, 146
Sachs, Nelly, 42, 227
Salinger, J. D., 147
Sand, George, 16, 42, 227, 249, 251
Sandel, Cora, 10n, 90n
Sargeant, Elizabeth, 139n
Sarton, May, 31, 221
Schaeffer, Helen Woodward, 117
Schissel, Lilian, 179n
Schmidt, Dolores, 28–29
Schreiner, Olive (Ralph Irons), 3, 8, 16, 26n, 42, 53, 151n, 226, 227, 228, 249
Scott, Sir Walter, 52
Segal, Lore, 32n
Seghers, Anna, 42
Sexton, Anne, 226n, 227n
Shakespeare, William, 231
Shange, Ntozake, 242n
Showalter, Elaine, 28, 29, 180n, 231–232
Slesinger, Tess, 32n
Smedley, Agnes, 35n, 40, 42, 44–45, 227, 264
Smith, George, 234
Smith, Lillian, 31
Sontag, Susan, 187, 232
Spark, Muriel, 32n
Stafford, Jean, 31
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 27n, 53n, 108
Starkie, Enid, 150n
Stead, Christina, 31, 35n, 40, 227, 243
Stein, 243n
Stein, Gertrude, 16, 31, 40, 218, 227
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 142
Stone, Lucy, 60n
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 16, 30n, 42, 59, 61, 63, 99n, 203–206, 227
Suckow, Ruth, 35n
Sumner, Cid Ricketts, 37
Tanner, Tony, 187
Tarkington, Booth, 110n
Tate, Allen, 219n
Teasdale, Sara, 227
Terry, Ellen, 108
Thackeray, William, 143, 233
Thoreau, Henry David, 60n, 63, 153
Toklas, Alice B., 218
Tolstoy, Leo, 33n, 171
Toomer, Jean, 9n
Trilling, Diana, 25, 219
Trilling, Lionel, 219n
Trollope, Anthony, 33n
Trollope, Frances, 36n
Truth, Sojourner, 184
Tsetsaeyva, Anna (Marina Cvetaeva), 145
Tubman, Harriet, 184
Tumin, 243n
Turgenev, Ivan, 33n
Twain, Mark, 143
Undset, Sigrid, 16
Updike, John, 147, 219n
Valéry, Paul, 12, 13–14, 158, 163
Van Gogh, Vincent, 153, 158, 163, 169, 225
Voynich, Ethel, 42
Walker, Alice, 32n, 172n
Walker, Margaret, 32n, 37, 209
Wallant, Edwin Louis, 166
Warren, Robert Penn, 147, 219n
Washington, Booker T., 112
Welty, Eudora, 16, 31
Wertenbaker, Lael, 32n
West, Jessamyn, 31, 153, 227
West, Nathaniel, 237–238
West, Rebecca, 227
Wharton, Edith, 16, 31, 38n, 40, 227
Whitman, Walt, 10, 60n, 65n, 114n; Democratic Vistas, 182–183; Leaves of Grass, 150–151
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 60n, 63, 286
Wilde, Oscar, 9, 148
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 10
Wilder, Thornton, 147
Willard, Nancy, 32n
Williams, William Carlos, 13, 221
Williams, Mrs. William Carlos, 221
Wilson, Angus, 10
Wilson, Edmund, 220–221
Winters, Yvor, 219n
Wiseman, Adele, 32n
Wolfe, Thomas, 12
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 43
Woolf, Virginia, 3, 23, 27n, 29, 31, 40, 42, 115, 126, 165, 173, 207n, 227, 228, 252n, 256, 264; angel in the house, 34, 213–214, 254; childlessness of, 200–201; on family life, 33–34; on madness, 226; Mrs. Dalloway, 213; Professions for Women, 34, 213; reading to Memoir Club, 243n; A Room of One’s Own, 11, 16, 151n, 228, 244; self-censorship, 142–143; Three Guineas, 244, 257; To the Lighthouse, 160, 161, 213, 235; The Waves, 159–161, 201; A Writer’s Diary, 17, 153, 159–161, 235
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 17, 214
Wright, Sarah, 35n
Yeats, William Butler, 33n, 215
Yglesias, Helen, 32n, 219
Yglesias, José, 219n
Young, Marguerite, 37
Zola, Émile, 33n, 113