Books that are classics of women???s literature, and are working their way into this new conception of the canon, include Virginia Woolf???s A Room of One???s Own (1929), the poetry of Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich, Kate Chopin???s The Awakening (1899), the works of Gilman and Zora Neale Hurston, and the nineteenth century works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, an