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Ann Basso wrote in Mythlore that all the women in The Lord of the Rings are either noble or ethereal like Éowyn and Galadriel, or simple rustics like Rosie, with one exception: Goldberry, the River-woman's daughter, wife of Tom Bombadil, who appears as a biblical Eve figure to Galadriel's Mary. In her view, the "roster of women" are "rich and ...
Hannah Abbott. Vanessa Abrams. Irene Adler. Aunt Agatha. Akivasha. Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames. Cherry Ames. Anactoria.
Adichie was born on 15 September 1977, and raised in Enugu, as the fifth out of six children to Igbo parents. [1] [2] [3] Bearing Amanda as her English name, [4] [5] she made up the Igbo name "Chimamanda" in the 1990s to keep her legal English name and conform with Igbo Christian naming customs.
Virginia Woolf is known for her contributions to 20th-century literature and her essays, as well as the influence she has had on literary, particularly feminist criticism. A number of authors have stated that their work was influenced by her, including Margaret Atwood , Michael Cunningham , [ g ] Gabriel García Márquez , [ h ] and Toni Morrison .
Agatha Christie. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
The novel's critical success has been matched by its popular appeal. In 2019, The Guardian ranked My Brilliant Friend as the 11th best book of the 21st century. [6] In a 2024 survey conducted by The New York Times Book Review, the novel was named the best book of the 21st century, solidifying its place in contemporary literature. [7]
One of the best known 19th-century female writers was Jane Austen, author of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), who achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another ...