- Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age(1972)
- A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women(1977)
- Independent Women: Work and Community for Single Women 1850-1920(1985)
- Between Husband and Wife: Marriage Dynamics in Victorian America(1992)
- Through the Gaze of the Camera: Women and Modernity in the United States (2003)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper"(2008)