In the century since the 19th Amendment was ratified, women have shattered glass ceilings at every level of American government with the glaring exception of president and vice president.

Here are a few best-selling writers of the 19th century — with links to books — that may be new to you: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).Renowned as a poet and a novelist, Harper, born ...

Though she’s dressed in an opulent, fur-trimmed gown in a palatial French home sometime in the mid-19th century, her silent fury is recognizable to women the world over who’ve contained their ...

LOS ANGELES — Allison Lange, a women’s suffrage historian, grew up reading the "American Girl" novels, which portrayed the lives of corresponding American Girl dolls in 19th and 20th century ...

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

My Beautiful 19th-Century Gothic Revival Fantasy Is a drill hall from the 1800s New York’s best contemporary art museum?

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S. Women won the right to vote more than a century ago, but access to the ballot has never been equal.

Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), pictured here, reflect a sense of unease over a modernizing society that was sweeping women up in its fray. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of R.B.F. Barr ...

Help us create a guide to the best literature and non-fiction written by women. Toni Morrison poses with her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" on Sept. 21, 2012. By Zipporah Osei ...

Books featuring coded romances between women, such as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Henry James' The Bostonians, have been popular since the late 19th century, a time when women could ...