Ads
related to: first female authorsamazon.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [11]
List of women sportswriters. Lists of women writers by nationality. Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Sophie (digital lib) Women in science fiction. Women Writers Project. Women's writing in English.
This is a list of notable women writers. ... Frau Ava (c. 1060–1127, Germany), first female wr. in German; Yekaterina Avdeyeva (1788–1865, Russia), domestic wr.
List of early-modern British women novelists. This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library, where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century.
George Eliot. Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian[1][2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3] She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner ...
The Emulation, Sarah Fyge (1719) The Woman's Labour, Mary Collier (1739) [18] Letters from a Peruvian Woman, Françoise de Graffigny (1747) The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1756) An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles, Mary Leapor (1763) Je ne sçai quoi: or, A collection of letters, odes, &c., Never before published.
Ann Radcliffe. Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist, a pioneer of Gothic fiction, and a minor poet. Her technique of explaining apparently supernatural elements in her novels has been credited with gaining respectability for Gothic fiction in the 1790s. [1] Radcliffe was the most popular writer of ...
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. [2][3] Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother.