The American Women Writers series makes available the work of the most significant, influential, and popular American women writers from the 1820s to the 1920s. These volumes are instrumental for teaching many women's studies and literature courses.

The American Women Writers series includes the following titles:

How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories: Rose Terry Cooke
Edited by Elizabeth Ammons

"The Lamplighter" by Maria Susanna Cummins:
Edited by Nina Baym

"The Amber Gods" and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford:
Edited by Alfred Bendixen

Gail Hamilton: Selected Writings, Gail Hamilton
Edited by Susan Coultrap-McQuin

The Hidden Hand: Or, Capitola the Madcap by E. D. E. N. Southworth
Edited by Joanne Dobson

Moods by Louisa May Alcott:
Edited by Sarah Elbert

Hobomok & Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child:
Edited by Carolyn L. Karcher

Hope Leslie: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Edited by Mary Kelley

Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen:
Edited by Deborah E. McDowell

Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin:
Edited by Marjorie Pryse

Alternative Alcott by Louisa May Alcott:
Edited by Elaine Showalter

The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller:
Edited by Jeffrey Steele

American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century:
Edited by Cheryl Walker

Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern:
Edited by Joyce W. Warren

Women Artists, Women Exiles: "Miss Grief" and Other Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Edited by Joan Myers Weimar

"A New Home, Who'll Follow?" by Caroline Kirkland:
Edited by Sandra A. Zagarell