The Actor's Book of Monologues for Women

Baxandall, Rosalyn, Linda Gordon, and Susan Reverby, eds. America’sWorking Women, A Documentary History 1600 to the Present. New York: Random House, 1976.

Brook, Stephen, ed. The Oxford Book of Dreams. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Copeland, Lewis and Lawrence W. Lamm, eds. The World’s Great Speeches. New York: Dover Publications, 1942.

Cosman, Carol, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver, eds. The Penguin Book of WomenPoets. New York: Viking Penguin, 1979.

Culley, Margo, ed. A Day at a Time: The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present. New York: The Feminist Press, 1985.

Dalby. Richard, ed. Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. , 1989.

Evans, Elizabeth. Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution. New York: Paragon House, 1975.

Fernea. Elizabeth Warnock and Basima Qattan Bezirgan, eds. MiddleEastern Muslim Women Speak. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977.

Greer. Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone, eds. Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-CenturyWomen’s Verse. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.

Hughes, Langston and Arna Bontemps, eds. The Poetry of the American Negro 1746—1970. New York: Doubleday, 1970.

Larson, Ann E. and Carole A. Carr, eds. Silverleaf’s Choice: An Anthology of Lesbian Humor. Seattle: Silverleaf Press, 1990.

Lerner, Gerda, ed. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York: Random House, 1972.

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Mayumi Tsutakawa, eds. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women’s Anthology. Corvallis, Oregon: Calyx Books, 1989.

Moffat, Mary Jane and Charlotte Painter, eds. Revelations: Diaries of Women. New York: Random House, 1974.

Post, Elizabeth L., ed. Emily Post’s Etiquette: Twelfth RevisedEdition, New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1969.

Randall, Margaret. Sandino’s Daughters:Testimoniesof Nicaraguan Women in Struggle. Vancouver & Toronto: New Star Books, 1981.

Saywell, Shelley. Women in War: From World War II to El Salvador. Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1985.

Schuster, M. Lincoln, ed. The World’s Great Letters: From Ancient Days to Our Own Time. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

Stratton, Joanna L. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Terkel, Studs. The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988.

Terkel, Studs. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972 & 1974.

Walker, Nancy and Zita Dresner, eds. Redressing the Balance: American Women’s Literary Humor from ColonialTimes to the 1980s. Jackson & London: The University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following copyrighted material:

Selections by Emma Adair, Annette Lecleve Botkin, Lavina Gates Chapman, and S N. Noisington from Pioneer Women, edited by Joanna L. Stratton Copyright © 1981 by Joanna L. Stratton. By permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. and International Creative Management.

Selections by Nazik al-Mala’ikah, Umm Kulthum, Zahrah Muhammad, and Furugh Farrukhzad from Middle Eastern Muslim Women Speak, edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Basima Qattan Bezirgan, © 1977. By permission of the editors and the University of Texas Press.

Selection by Nellie Bianchi from Mothers of the Disappeared, edited by Jo Fisher. By permission of South End Press and Zed Books.

Excerpt from “Fanny Fern: The Diary of Helen Ward Brandreth, edited by Carol Potter, appearing in A Day at a Time: Being the Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present, edited by Margo Culley. By permission of Carol Potter. Published by Feminist Press.

“Too Far” from Honeymoon in Hell, by Fredric Brown Copyright © 1958 by Fredric Brown; renewal 1986 by Linn L. and James R. Brown. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Fredric Brown and Roberta Pryor, Inc.

Excerpt from With a Feather on My Nose, by Billie Burke and Cameron Shipp. Copyright 1949 by Billie Burke and Cameron Shipp. An Appleton/Hawthorn Book. Used by permission of the publisher, Dutton, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.

“Going to Heaven!” “There’s Been a Death,” “I Cannot Live with You,” “Dear March—Come In,” and “Go Thy Great Way” from The Poemsof Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright 1951, © 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College.

Excerpts from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Copyright © 1958, 1986 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.

Selections by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, Deborah Sampson Gannett, and Margaret Hill Morris from Weathering the Storm: Women of the American Revolution, edited by Elizabeth Evans- Copyright © 1989 Elizabeth Evans. By permission of Paragon House.

“After Delivering Your Lunch” by Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher, “Whenever You’re Cornered, the Only Way Out Is to Fight by Merle Woo and “Wintermelons” by Marian Yee from TheForbidden Stitch: An Asian AmericanWomen’s Anthology, edited by Shirley Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa and Margarita Donnelly. © 1989 Calyx Books.

Excerpt from Strange Toys, by Patricia Geary. Copyright © 1987 by Patricia Geary. By permission of Bantam Books, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, Inc., and Virginia Barber Literary Agency.

Selection by Dellie Hahn from “The Good War”: An Oral Historyof World War Two, by Studs Terkel. Copyright © 1984 by Studs Terkel. By permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Excerpt from Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress, edited by Jean Humez. Copyright © 1981 by The University of Massachusetts Press By permission of University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.

Selections by Mirra Lokhvitskaya and Lidiya Zinovyeva-Annibal from Women Writers in Russian Modernism, translated and edited by Temira Pachmuss. By permission of The University of Illinois Press.

Selections by Carmen Prado and Daisy Zamora from Sandino’s Daughters, by Margaret Randall. By permission of Margaret Randall, published by New Star Books, Vancouver, Canada.

“Tirzah and the Wide World” by Dahlia Ravikovitch from Israeli Poetry: A Contemporary Anthology, translated by Warren Bargad and Stanley F. Chyet By permission of the Indiana University Press.

Selctions by Sei Shōnagon from The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon, translated by Arthur Waley. By permission of Grove Press.

“Nijinsky” by Maura Stanton from The Country I Come From, published by Milk-weed Editions.

Selection by Roberta Victor from Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, by Studs Terkel. Copyright © 1972. 1974 by Studs Terkel. By permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. and International Creative Management.

Excerpt from “The Warriors” from The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories. by Anna Lee Walters. By permission of Firebrand Books, Ithaca, New York.

The following selections were translated and/or adapted by Mr. Rudnicki: State. ments of Joan of Arc (with Willard Trask); the excerpts from the Chanson de Bilitis, by Pierre Louys; and No and The Homecomingof Hector and Andromache, by Sappho