In the Press’s founding years, Tillie Olsen changed its course dramatically by giving Howe a photocopy of the 1861 pages of "The Atlantic Monthly" containing Rebecca Harding Davis's anonymously published novella "Life in the Iron Mills". In 1972, the Press issued this work by Rebecca Harding Davis as the first of its series of rediscovered feminist literary classics. Olsen’s second suggestion, "Daughter of Earth" by Agnes Smedley, and Elaine Hedges’s suggestion, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, were published in 1973. Both have become staples of American literature and women’s studies curriculums since, with the 1990 "Norton Anthology of American Literature" including both "Life in the Iron Mills" and "The Yellow Wallpaper."