Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. Rethinking Women's Literary History -- 2. Emily Dickinson and the Wicked Sisters -- The Magic Circle -- "Satan, or Sue" -- Sisterhood and Difference -- Placing Dickinson in History -- 3. Dickinson, Women Writers, and the Marketplace -- Literary Sisterhood: The Brontë Sisters -- "Tomes of Solid Witchcraft": Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Superior Women: George Eliot -- Going to Market: Helen Hunt Jackson -- 4. Differences That Kill: Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore -- Gender and Modernism -- The Dynamics of Influence -- "Can't They See How Different It Is?" -- Witchcraft -- "Driving to the Interior" -- "You Are an Elizabeth" -- 5. Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, and the Limits of Sisterhood -- Breaking the Mold -- Feminism and Poetry -- Lesbian Feminist Politics and Poetics -- Dickinson as Other -- "What Chou Mean WE, White Girl?" -- 6. Race, Black Women Writing, and Gwendolyn Brooks -- Making Herself a Tradition -- Black Blueswomen -- Poetry and Black Motherhood -- Words as Weapons -- Black Power -- "There Will Be Differences" -- "Who Said It Was Simple" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.