'Twas but a babe ; The Father ; The African mother at her daughter's grave / Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Letters from New York / Lydia Maria Child -- Appeal to the Christian women of the South / Angelina Grimké Weld -- An address to the Christian women of American ; Statistics of female health / Catharine Beecher -- The lady who does her own work ; Servants ; Dress, or who makes the fashions ; The cathedral / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The courting of sister Wisby / Sarah Orne Jewett -- Reminiscences (excerpts) ; Letters (excerpts) ; Diary (excerpts) ; The woman's Bible (introduction and appendix) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Twenty years at Hull-House ; Filial relations / Jane Addams -- The yellow wall-paper ; Two callings ; Domestic mythology ; The living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (excerpts) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman.