CZ:Literature Workgroup/Women in literature
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Writers
Louisa May Alcott: (1832-88) American writer known for the novel Little Women that has been adapted for film, television and stage many times. [e]- Jane Austen: English novelist (1775-1817), author of Pride and Prejudice and other novels. [e]
- Margaret Atwood: (1939 - ) Canadian poet, literary critic, essayist, and writer of novels with an emphasis on feminism as well as Canadian nationalism and identity. [e]
- Anne Bradstreet: (c. 1612 - 1672) Colonial American poet, considered the first English poet in the New World. [e]
- Charlotte Brontë: (1816-55) English novelist who wrote Jane Eyre. [e]
- Emily Brontë: (1818-48) English writer who wrote Wuthering Heights. [e]
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Add brief definition or description
Willa Cather: (1873-1947) American writer who wrote several novels portraying frontier life on the Great Plains of America in the late 19th century, among them O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. [e]- Emily Dickenson: Add brief definition or description
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Margaret Fuller: Add brief definition or description
- Julia Ward Howe: Add brief definition or description
- Ursula Le Guin: (born October 21, 1929) Science-fiction author whose works address themes from sociology and anthropology. [e]
- Toni Morrison: (1931- ) US writer, winner of Nobel Prize, whose writings focus on the African-American experience; wrote Song of Solomon. [e]
- Lady Murasaki: Add brief definition or description
- Sylvia Plath: Add brief definition or description
- Ayn Rand: (1905-82) Russian-born author of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957); , considered the founder of a philosophical movement called Objectivism [e]
- George Sand: (1804-76). The male pen-name of the female romantic writer, Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant. [e]
- Mari Sandoz: Add brief definition or description
- Anna Sewell: Add brief definition or description
- Mary Shelley: English author [e]
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: (1811-96) American social reformer and novelist; wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. [e]
- Katherine Anne Porter: Add brief definition or description
- Susan Glaspell: Add brief definition or description
- Harper Lee: Add brief definition or description
- Doris Lessing: Add brief definition or description
- Sappho: Add brief definition or description
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: Add brief definition or description
- Margaret Mitchell: Add brief definition or description
- Joyce Carol Oates: Add brief definition or description
- Gertrude Stein: American author (1874-1946) who lived in Paris, France, and is best remembered for creating deliberate linguistic conundrums. [e]
- Virginia Woolf: (1882-1941) Feminist author, essayist, and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929) [e]
- Phillis Wheatley: (1753 or 1754 - 1784) African-American slave whose poems and letters are among the earliest writings of blacks in America. [e]
- Amy Tan: Add brief definition or description
- Alice Walker: Add brief definition or description
- Anzia Yezierska: Add brief definition or description
Works
- Atlas Shrugged: Add brief definition or description
- The Battle Hymn of the Republic: Add brief definition or description
- The Bell Jar: Add brief definition or description
- Black Beauty: Add brief definition or description
- Frankenstein: Add brief definition or description
- Jane Eyre: Add brief definition or description
- Little Women: Add brief definition or description
- My Ántonia: Add brief definition or description
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Add brief definition or description
- Pride and Prejudice: Add brief definition or description
- Song of Solomon: Add brief definition or description
- The Tale of Genji: Add brief definition or description
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: Add brief definition or description
- Wuthering Heights: Add brief definition or description