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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 ...
Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare 's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s. A considerable number of book-length studies and ...
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.
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK: /-k r ɑː f t /; [1] 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. [2] [3] Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional (at the time) personal relationships, received more attention than her writing.
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.
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [1][2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters ...
Joseph and Louisa. Relatives. John S. Jacobs (brother) Harriet Jacobs[ a ] (1813 or 1815 [ b ] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". [ 5 ]
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."