Overview of Assignments: These assignments are due in class on the dates indicated. There will be NO LATE assignments accepted. Both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change.
(CP = Course Packet; PVW = Prose by Victorian Women; NWR = The New Woman Reader)

Week 1

W, Aug. 24 - Course introduction and syllabus review

F, Aug. 26 - Susan Rubinow Gorsky's Ch. 1 "Introduction: Literature and Society"; Christine Bolt's "British and American Feminism: Personal, Intellectual, and Practical Connections" CP

Week 2

M, Aug. 29 - "Author's Introduction," "Letter to M. Talleyrand-Périgord," and Ch. 8: "Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation" from Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women (e-text)
and Ch. 3 of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (e-text)

W, Aug. 31 -Wollstonecraft and Mill contd; Elizabeth Helsinger's Ch. 1: "Mothers, Muses, and Makers" CP

F, Sept. 2 - Susan Rubinow Gorsky's Chapter 3 "Education: 'The Bars Go Down'" CP; Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century (3-53)

Week 3

M, Sept. 5 - No Classes - Labor Day

W, Sept. 7 - Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century (53-98)

F, Sept. 9 - Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century (99-137) and Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) "The School Days of an Indian Girl." (e-text)

Week 4

M, Sept. 12 - Susan Rubinow Gorsky's Ch. 2 "Marriage and Family: Gentle Ladies and New Women" (17-49) CP; "Preface" and "The Mistress" from Beeton's Book of Household Management (e-text)

W, Sept. 14 - Frances Power Cobbe's "Wife-Torture in England" (291-334) PVW

F, Sept. 16 - Susan Rubinow Gorsky's Ch. 2 "Marriage and Family: Gentle Ladies and New Women" (49-81) CP; "Preface" and Ch. 1: "Woman's Error and Her Debt" from Magaret Sanger's Woman and the New Race (e-text)

Week 5

M, Sept. 19 - Mona Caird's "Morality of Marriage" (625-654) PVW; Preface and Ch. 2: "The Influence of the Woman of England" from Sarah Stickney Ellis's The Women of England (e-text)

W, Sept. 21 - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's "The Angel Over the Right Shoulder" (e-text); George Egerton's "A Cross Line" (7-21) NWR

F, Sept. 23 - Ouida's Moths (9-151)

Week 6

M, Sept. 26 - Midterm Essay Questions Given Out; Ouida's Moths (151-330)

W, Sept. 28 - Ouida's Moths (331-543)

F, Sept. 30 - No Class - Instructor at Conference

Week 7

M, Oct. 3 - Midterm Essay Questions Due; Library Day (meet in the Special Collections Reading Room)

W, Oct. 5 - Ouida's Moths appendices A-E (544-624)

F, Oct. 7 - No Classes - Homecoming

Week 8

M, Oct. 10 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's A REPLY . . .To "The Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters the Women of the United States of America" (e-text) and Harriet Martineau's "Society in America" (33; 67-76) PVW

W, Oct. 12 - E.B.B. "Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (e-text) and selected articles from Ida B. Well's The Memphis diary of Ida B. Wells CP

F, Oct. 14 - "Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race" from Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South (e-text); "Aunt Chloe" from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Sketches of Southern Life (e-text)

Week 9

M, Oct. 17 - Doing Scholarly Research (read over Research Suggestions Page); The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference (e-text) and Sojourner Truth's "An't I a Woman?" (e-text)

W, Oct. 19 - Helen Taylor "The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered" (e-text) and selections from Emmeline Pankhurst's My Own Story, 1914 (e-text)

F, Oct. 21 - Susan B. Anthony "Women's Right to Vote" (e-text) and Frances E. Willard's "Address to Women's National Council" (e-text)

Week 10

M, Oct. 24 - "Sarah Grand on the New Woman: Her Critics Respond" (140-183 -- read the piece by Ouida and the two by Grand) NWR

W, Oct. 26 - Prospectus for Final Project Due; Sarah Grand contd. (the rest of the section)

F, Oct. 28 - Elizabeth Helsinger's Ch. 5: "The American Girl of the Period" CP, discussion of the Gibson Girl (http://www.gibson-girls.com/ and http://www.gbacg.org/gibsonfashion.htm) and Bloomerism (http://www.victorianlondon.org/punch/cartoon17.htm)

Week 11

M, Oct. 31 - Ella D'Arcy's "The Pleasure-Pilgrim" CP

W, Nov. 2 - Sydney Grundy's The New Woman - Acts I and II (295-331) NWR

F, Nov. 4 - Sydney Grundy's The New Woman - Acts III, IV, and V (331-351) NWR

Week 12

M, Nov. 7 - Iron Jawed Angels

W, Nov. 9 - Iron Jawed Angels contd.

F, Nov. 11 - No Classes - Veteran's Day

Week 13

M, Nov. 14 - Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience (1-188)

W, Nov. 16 - Louisa May Alcott's Work: A Story of Experience (189-344)

F, Nov. 18 - Presentations

Week 14

M, Nov. 21 - Presentations

W, Nov. 23 - No Class

F, Nov. 25 - No Classes - Thanksgiving

Week 15

M, Nov. 28 - Presentations

W, Nov. 30 - Presentations

F, Dec. 2 - Presentations

Week 16

M, Dec. 5 - Presentations

W, Dec. 7 - Presentations

F, Dec. 9 - Periodical Papers Due to my mailbox (4301 Turlington) by 4 p.m.