1780s
William Blake (1757-1827) Selected Poems
1790s
1830s
Harriet Martineau (1802-76) From Society in America (1837)
William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857) Act 2 Scene 6, “Tom and Jerry; Or, Life in London”. Cumberland’s British Theatre. Vol. 33. London: John Cumberland, [n.d.].
1850s
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) From ‘The Present Time’, Latter Day Pamphlets (1850)
William Wells Brown (c.1814-84) From ‘Anti-Slavery Meeting’ [Speech by Brown, August, 1854]
1860s
William Craft (1824–1900) and Ellen Craft (1826–91) from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860)
Transatlantic Exchange on Abolition as the Union’s Newly Declared War Aim (1862-63)
1870s
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) ‘Great-Grandfather’ (1870)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Surly Tim, A Lancashire Story” (1872)
Captain E. Rogers (1836-1915) ‘The Gun of the Age’, Once a Week (1872)
1880s
Louis Jackson (1843-?) From Our Caughnawagas in Egypt (1885)
1890s
Frederick Douglass (C. 1835-1895) ‘Haiti and the United States’ Parts I and II (1891)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) “Little Betty’s Kitten Tells Her Story” (1894)
Frieda Cassin (1870-1896?) ‘Scissors and Paste’ (1895)
1900s
Rubén Darío (1867-1916) ‘A Roosevelt’ (1907)
1910s
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) ‘Suicide’ (1915)
Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) From ‘Towards Socialism’ in The World of H.G. Wells (1915)
1920s
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) ‘This Way to the Flea Market’ (1925)