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Tables of Contents for The Actor's Book of Monologues for Women
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
General Introduction
3
10
PART I Witness
Mirrors to Nature Introduction
13
15
From Walking
15
1
Linda Hogan
From Oroonoko
16
1
Aphra Behn
The Sea Fowler
17
2
Mary Botham Howitt
To the Chase, to the Chase!
19
1
Frances Moore Brooke
To a Moth that Drinketh of the Ripe October
20
1
Emily Pfeiffer
To a Swallow Building under Our Eaves
21
1
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Dear March---Come in
22
1
Emily Dickinson
Solace
23
2
Clarissa Scott Delany
From A White Heron
25
1
Sarah Orne Jewett
From The Clearing in the Valley
26
2
Soge Track
Commentaries and Character Studies Introduction
28
36
The Atheist and the Acorn
33
1
Anne Finch
The Mock Hero
34
1
Mrs. Leicester
The Boy and Butterfly
35
1
Elizabeth Trefusis
To a Milkmaid
36
1
Carolyn Wells
When Lovely Woman
37
1
Phoebe Cary
The Woman Who Used Her Theory
38
1
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
From Sanditon
39
2
Jane Austen
Mrs. Johnson to Lady Susan
40
1
From Female Quixotism
41
1
Tabitha Gilman Tenney
From Eve's Diary
42
1
Mark Twain
Aunt Hetty on Matrimony
43
2
Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton)
Hezekiah Bedott
45
2
Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher
A Sunday Morning Interview
47
5
Kate F. Ellis
On the Servant Girl Question
48
2
The Last Breakfast at the Mountains
50
2
Fad Follower's
52
3
Emily Post
Gloves
53
1
Smoking Don'ts
53
2
Tryst
55
1
Eve Merriam
From Nijinsky
56
2
Maura Stanton
From The Girl That He Marries
58
4
Rhoda Lerman
From God's Ear
60
2
The Brie Generation
62
2
Alice Kahn
Journeys in History Introduction
64
28
Pursued by the King
67
3
Fanny Burney
The Duke of Wellington's Funeral
70
3
Lady Augusta Stanley
Queen Victoria in Mourning
72
1
Overlooking Constantinople
73
2
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
America
75
1
Ellen Terry
Italy
76
1
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Miss Mary B. Dinsmoor
77
3
Susan Hale
From I Passed This Way
80
2
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
D'Annunzio
82
1
Isadora Duncan
From The Journal of Frances Anne Butler
83
2
Fanny Kemble
From Old Boston Museum Days
85
1
Kate Ryan
From With a Feather on My Nose
86
2
Billie Burke
From The Umm Kulthum Nobody Knows
88
4
Umm Kulthum
Witnesses to War Introduction
92
31
From her Diary
95
2
Margaret Hill Morris
A Day of Great Confusion
97
2
Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker
The Blazing Fleet
98
1
An Address Delivered at the Federal-Street Theatre, Boston
99
2
Deborah Sampson Gannett
From The Princeton Standard, 1862
101
1
Margaret E. Breckenridge
From The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864--65
102
2
Eliza Frances Andrews
Fred Brown's Body
104
1
Emma Adair
From Letters
105
2
Mrs. John Harris
From Ladies' Address at the Packer Institute, Brooklyn, Spring, 1865
107
1
Mrs. A. H. Hoge
From her Diary
108
1
Mrs. Belle Reynolds
Field Ambulance in Retreat (Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra)
109
1
May Sinclair
The Grounded Aviator
110
2
Anais Nin
Holding the Line, Britain, 1939--45
112
1
Diana Barnato Walker
Uprising, Poland, 1939--45
113
1
Ida Dobrzanska Kasprzak
Forty Years Later
114
1
Dellie Hahne
Twilight Zone, Vietnam, 1965--72
115
2
Lynn Bower
The Kidnappings
117
1
Nellie Bianchi
Trapped in the Cross-Five
118
5
Daisy Zamora
PART II Actor
Polemics Introduction
123
23
Monument to Amun
126
2
Queen Hatshepsut
Statements
128
2
Joan of Arc
Defiled Is My Name Full Sore
130
1
Queen Anne Boleyn
Like as the Armed Knight
131
1
Anne Askewe
Oh Fortune!
132
1
Queen Elizabeth I
Thoughts on Education
133
2
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
An Englishwoman's Education
135
2
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From Life's Lessons
137
2
Miss Wentworth
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
139
1
Mary Wollstonecraft
From What If I Am a Woman?
140
2
Maria W. Stewart
On Woman's Right to Suffrage
142
2
Susan B. Anthony
Whenever You're Cornered, the Only Way Out Is to Fight
144
2
Merle Woo
Choices Introduction
146
31
An Agreement to Assist a Young Girl
149
1
Loi Yau
Affidavit and Testimony
150
2
Jane Johnson
From Daily Diary, 1810
152
2
Marjory Fleming
School-Days
154
1
Susan Hale
The Little Red Shoes
155
1
Kate Ryan
``I have determined to keep a journal...''
156
1
Helen Ward Brandreth
A Propensity to Intoxication
157
2
Mrs. Mary Robinson
Letter to John Sterling
159
1
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Wolves at the Door
160
1
S. N. Hoisington
An Undependable Sort of Bird
161
1
Annette Lecleve Botkin
Blow the Building Down
162
1
Lavina Gates Chapman
The Sea Otter
163
2
Martha Martin
I'm Proud to Be a Hillbilly
165
2
Donna Redmond
Hooker
167
2
Roberta Victor
Family Farmer
169
2
Carolyn Nearmyer
Swords into Plowshares
171
2
Jean Gump
On Probation
173
1
Dr. Jane Hodgson
From My Life, An Extended Interview
174
1
Susan S. Davis
Zahrah Muhammad
If We Stay Together They Can't Hurt Us
175
2
Carmen Prado
Friends, Lovers and Wives Introduction
177
22
Friends
181
1
Gareth Owen
On Parting
182
1
Sei Shonagon
To Abelard
183
1
Heloise
In Imitation of Horace
184
1
Aphra Behn
Winter Song
185
1
Elizabeth Tollet
Tsarina of the Underworld
186
1
Mirra Lokhvitskaya
A Woman's Question
187
2
Adelaide Anne Procter
Were I but His Own Wife
189
1
Ellen Mary Patrick Downing
Grief of a Girl's Heart
190
1
Anonymous
A Letter to Her Husband
191
1
Anne Bradstreet
After Delivering Your Lunch
192
1
Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher
From Eleanor
193
2
Rhoda Lerman
My Beloved Shelley
195
2
Mary Shelley
Epitaph on the Monument of Sir William Dyer at Colmworth, 1641
197
1
Lady Catherine Dyer
The First Day
197
2
Christina Rossetti
Daughters, Sisters and Mothers Introduction
199
26
Father Does Not Live with Us Now
201
1
Emily Dickinson
The Last Afternoon that My Father Lived
201
1
Oral Testimony of a Former Slave
202
2
Anonymous
From Generations: A Memoir
204
2
Lucille Clifton
From The Warriors
206
1
Anna Lee Walters
Wintermelons
207
2
Marian Yee
From Telling Mom
209
2
Karen Dale Wolman
From Pinafore Palace
Kate Douglas Wiggins
Nora Archibald Smith
I had a little pony
211
1
Six little mice sat down to spin
211
1
Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea
211
1
I'll tell you a story
212
1
Solomon Grundy
212
1
Three children sliding on the ice
212
1
The man in the wilderness asked me
213
1
If all the world were apple-pie
213
1
I had a little nut tree
213
1
If you sneeze on Monday
214
1
When the wind is in the east
214
1
Girls and boys, come out to play
214
1
Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky
215
1
Who Has Seen the Wind?
216
1
Christina Rossetti
Learning to Play
216
1
Abbie Farwell Brown
The New Moon
217
1
Eliza Lee Follen
Philip, My King
218
1
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
My Sky
219
1
Mirra Lokhvitskaya
From Calamity Jane's Letters to Her Daughter
220
5
Jane Cannary Hickok
PART III Dreamer
Intimate Visions Introduction
225
29
I Grieve and Dare Not Show My Discontent
228
1
Queen Elizabeth I
Ode Against Pleasure
229
2
Orinda (Katherine Flower Philips)
Passing and Glassing
231
2
Christina Rossetti
Echo
232
1
Remembrance
233
2
Emily Bronte
From Wuthering Heights
234
1
The Child on the Cliff
235
3
Anna Kingsford
The Laboratory Underground
237
1
Going to Heaven!
238
4
Emily Dickinson
There's Been a Death
239
1
I Cannot Live with You
240
2
From The Scarlet Letter
242
2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
From The Yellow Wallpaper
244
2
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum
246
2
Margaret Atwood
The Park
248
1
Gareth Owen
No
249
1
Sappho
From Chansons de Bilitis
Pierre Louys
iii. Maternal Advice
250
1
vii. The Passer-by
251
1
xxix. The Pan-pipe
251
1
xci. Funeral Song
252
1
xcii. Hymn to Astarte
252
1
xciii. Hymn to the Night
253
1
The Tomb of Bilitis: First Epitaph
253
1
Epics and Gothics Introduction
254
36
The Homecoming of Hector and Andromache
257
1
Sappho
From The Lay of Sir Launfal
258
3
Marie de France
The Wife of Loki
261
1
Lady Charlotte Elliot
A Ballad of Orleans, 1429
262
2
Mrs. Darmesteter (A. Mary F. Robinson)
A Wicked Spell
264
2
Esperanza (Lady Wilde)
A Woman's Curse
264
2
The Fairy Thrall
266
2
Mary C. G. Byron
The Tryst of the Night
267
1
From Goblin Market
268
3
Christina Rossetti
From The Viper
271
2
Nazik al-la'ikah
From The Romance of the Forest
273
3
Ann Radcliffe
From The Mysteries of Udolpho
275
1
From The Old Nurse's Story
276
3
Elizabeth Gaskell
Cecilia's Gospel
279
3
Lanoe Falconer
From The Cold Embrace
282
1
Mary E. Braddon
From Jane Eyre
283
2
Charlotte Bronte
Mina Murray's Journal
285
2
Bram Stoker
Mary Read
287
1
Robert W. Chambers
Too Far
288
2
Fredric Brown
Revelations and Transformations Introduction
290
41
From To the Excellent Orinda
295
2
Philo-Philippa
On a Picture Painted by Her Self...
297
1
Anne Killigrew
On Imagination
298
2
Phillis Wheatley
The Modern Poet: A Song of Derivations
300
1
Alice Meynell
From the 1831 introduction to Frankenstein
301
1
Mary Shelley
From Ane Godlie Dreame
302
2
Elizabeth Melville
From Gifts of Power
304
3
Rebecca Cox Jackson
From The Wolves
307
2
Lidiya Zinovyeva-Annibal
From Diary, Volume 2
309
2
Anais Nin
Tirzah and the Wide World
311
1
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Divine Rebellion
312
2
Furugh Farrukhzad
From Strange Toys
314
1
Patricia Geary
From Malinche
315
1
Haniel Long
From The Mists of Avalon
316
2
Marion Zimmer Bradley
From Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea
318
2
Ursula K. LeGuin
From Pilgrimage
320
2
Zenna Henderson
Dawn Is Far Away
322
4
Rhoda Lerman
The Vestments He Wove
324
1
A Spool of Golden Thread
325
1
July 4, 1846, at Fort Laramie
326
4
Ruth Whitman
September 6, 1846, in the Desert
327
1
March 15, 1847
328
1
Alder Creek
Where Is the West
329
1
Go Thy Great Way!
330
1
Emily Dickinson
Select Bibliography
331