diff --git a/doc/source/reference/io.rst b/doc/source/reference/io.rst
index fbd0f6bd200b9..4a5b46f1343c7 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/io.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/io.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ Flat file
    DataFrame.to_csv
    read_fwf
 
+.. currentmodule:: pandas.io.parsers
+
+.. autosummary::
+   :toctree: api/
+
+   TextFileReader
+
+   TextFileReader.get_chunk
+   TextFileReader.close
+   TextFileReader.read
+
+.. currentmodule:: pandas
+
 Clipboard
 ~~~~~~~~~
 .. autosummary::
diff --git a/pandas/io/__init__.py b/pandas/io/__init__.py
index c804b81c49e7c..46cca547b0405 100644
--- a/pandas/io/__init__.py
+++ b/pandas/io/__init__.py
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@
     from pandas.io import (
         formats,
         json,
+        parsers,
         stata,
     )
 
     # mark only those modules as public
-    __all__ = ["formats", "json", "stata"]
+    __all__ = ["formats", "json", "parsers", "stata"]
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
index 8b2a02f0ac63a..cb8fd3a8172b9 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
@@ -1376,9 +1376,21 @@ def read_fwf(
 
 class TextFileReader(abc.Iterator):
     """
+    Passed dialect overrides any of the related parser options.
 
-    Passed dialect overrides any of the related parser options
+    Iterator class used to process to text files read via read_csv in
+    chunks.
 
+    An instance of this class is returned by `read_csv` when it is processed in
+    chunks, instead of returning a single `DataFrame`.
+
+    When iterating over `TextFileReader`, every item returned will be a DataFrame.
+
+    Examples
+    ---------
+    >>> with pd.read_csv(..., iterator=True) as text_file_reader:
+    ...     for df in text_file_reader:
+    ...         ...
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -1429,6 +1441,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._engine = self._make_engine(f, self.engine)
 
     def close(self) -> None:
+        """Closes the file handle."""
         if self.handles is not None:
             self.handles.close()
         self._engine.close()
@@ -1711,6 +1724,18 @@ def _failover_to_python(self) -> None:
         raise AbstractMethodError(self)
 
     def read(self, nrows: int | None = None) -> DataFrame:
+        """
+        Reads the text file and stores the result in a DataFrame.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        nrows: int, optional, default None
+            The number of rows to read in one go.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        DataFrame
+        """
         if self.engine == "pyarrow":
             try:
                 # error: "ParserBase" has no attribute "read"