Female Literary Figures

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• Dickinson - Luce |
• Mansfield - Rukeyser |
• Sackville - Yourcenar

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Aidoo - Corelli

• Aidoo, Ama Ata, Ghanaian author, poet, and playwright
• Akhmatova, Anna, Russian poet Acmeist school
• Alcott, Louisa May, American author
• Allen, Paula Gunn, American Indian poet, novelist, critic
• Allende, Isabel, Chilean novelist
• Alvarez, Julia, American writer
• Angelou, Maya, American writer and performer
• Antin, Mary, Russian American writer
• Armstrong, Karen, English writer, catholic nun
• Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, Canadian novelist and poet
• Austen, Jane, English novelist
• Ban Zhao, Chinese writer
• Bainbridge, Beryl, English writer
• Barnes, Djuna, American author.
• Beauvoir, Simone de, French author
• Behn, Aphra, first professional female English author
• Binchy, Maeve, Irish writer, journalist
• Bishop, Elizabeth, American poet
• Blume, Judy (Judy Sussman), writer
• Bogan, Louise, American poet and critic
• Bombeck, Erma (Erma Fiste), writer, humorist
• Botwin, Carol, writer, social critic
• Bowen, Elizabeth, Anglo-Irish novelist
• Boyle, Kay, American writer
• Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley), early American poet
• Brittain, Vera, English novelist and poet
• Brookner, Anita, English writer and art critic
• Brooks, Gwendolyn, American poet
• Brown, Helen Gurley, American writer and editor
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, English poet
• Buck, Pearl (Sydenstricker), American author
• Butler, Octavia, African-American writer
• Byatt, Antonia Susan, British novelist
• Caldwell, Taylor, American novelist
• Carson, Rachel Louise, American writer and marine biologist
• Cartland, Barbara, British writer
• Cather, Willa Sibert, American novelist and short-story writer
• Child, Lydia Maria, American author and abolitionist
• Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty, American author
• Christie, Dame Agatha, English detective story writer
• Cisneros, Sandra, American author
• Clark, Mary Higgins, American novelist
• Cleary, Beverly, American writer
• Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French novelist
• Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy, English novelist
• Corelli, Marie, English novelist

• Aidoo - Corelli |
• Dickinson - Luce |
• Mansfield - Rukeyser |
• Sackville - Yourcenar

Dickinson - Luce

• Truman, Margaret Truman, writer, singer
• de Gouges, Olympe, French writer, feminist
• Dickinson, Emily, American poet
• Didion, Joan, American writer
• Dinesen, Isak, Danish author
• Dodge, Mary Mapes, American writer of children's stories
• Doolittle, Hilda, pseud. H. D., American poet
• Drabble, Margaret, English novelist
• Duras, Marguerite, French author
• Dworkin, Andrea, American writer, activist
• Edgeworth, Maria, Irish novelist
• Eliot, George, pseud. of Mary Ann Evans, English novelist
• Erdrich, Louise, American author
• Fadiman, Anne, American writer
• Frank, Anne, Dutch diarist
• Fuller, Margaret, American writer and lecturer
• Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson), English novelist
• Giovanni, Nikki, African-American poet, educator, activist
• Glasgow, Ellen, American novelist
• Godden, Rumer, English novelist
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographies
• Gordimer, Nadine, South African writer
• Greer, Germaine, Australian feminist and writer
• Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell), American author, editor, and feminist
• Hansberry, Lorraine, American playwright
• Hardwick, Elizabeth, literary critic, novelist, and short-story writer
• Hellman, Lillian, American dramatist
• Highsmith, Patricia, American novelist
• Hillenbrand, Laura, American writer
• Hokinson, Helen, American cartoonist
• Holley, Mary Austin, American author
• Howe, Julia Ward, American author and social reformer
• Hurston, Zora Neale, African American writer
• Ivins, Molly, Texan columnist
• James, P.D., English writer
• Jelinek, Elfriede, Austrian novelist and playwright
• Jewett, Sarah Orne, American novelist and short-story writer
• Jong, Erica (Mann), American novelist and poet
• Johnston, Lynn, Canadian cartoonist
• Kael, Pauline, American motion picture critic
• Kincaid, Jamaica, West Indian—American writer
• Kingsolver, Barbara, American writer
• Konigsburg, E. L., American children's book author
• LaDuke, Winona, American writer
• La Flesche, Susette, reformer, writer, and lecturer
• Larson, Nella, writer
• Lastis, Mary Jane (pseudonyms: Emma Lathen, R. B. Dominic), mystery writer
• Lazarus, Emma, American poet and essayist
• Lee, Harper, American author
• Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber, American writer
• L'Engle, Madeleine (Madeleine Camp), author
• Lessing, Doris, British novelist
• Levertov, Denise, Anglo-American poet
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh), author
• Lindgren, Astrid, Swedish writer
• Lowell, Amy, American poet, biographer, and critic.
• Lowry, Lois, American writer
• Luce, Clare Boothe, American playwright and diplomat

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• Dickinson - Luce |
• Mansfield - Rukeyser |
• Sackville - Yourcenar

Mansfield - Rukeyser

• Mansfield, Katherine, British author
• Mason, Bobbi Ann, writer
• Mazer, Norma Fox, writer
• Merril, Judith (Juliet Grossman; pseudonyms Ernest Hamilton, Cyril Judd, Judith Merril, Rose Sharon, Eric Thorstein), science fiction writer
• McCarthy, Mary Therese, American writer
• McCullers, Carson, American novelist
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent, American poet
• Mitchell, Margaret, American novelist
• Mitford, Nancy, English novelist and biographer
• Mitford, Mary Russell, English author
• Moore, Marianne, American poet
• Morante, Elsa, Italian novelist and poet
• Mori, Kyoko, Japanese-American poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
• Morrison, Toni, American writer
• Munro, Alice, Canadian writer
• Murdoch, Dame Iris, British novelist and philosopher
• Nin, Anaïs, American writer
• Oates, Joyce Carol, American author
• Olds, Sharon, American poet
• Olsen, Tillie, American writer
• Ozick, Cynthia, American writer
• Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild), American short-story and verse writer
• Petry, Ann, novelist
• Pisan, Christine de, French poet
• Plath, Sylvia, American poet
• Porter, Katherine Anne, American author
• Post, Elizabeth, American writer and etiquette expert
• Potter, Beatrix, English writer, illustrator
• Powell, Dawn, American novelist
• Proulx, Annie, American writer
• Raine, Kathleen, English poet and critic
• Rand, Ayn, American writer
• Renault, Mary, pseud. of Mary Challens, English novelist
• Rey, Margret, children's writer
• Rhys, Jean, English novelist
• Rice, Anne (Howard Allen O'Brien), American author
• Rich, Adrienne, American poet
• Rossetti, Christina Georgina, English poet
• Rowling, J. K., children's writer
• Rukeyser, Muriel, American poet

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• Dickinson - Luce |
• Mansfield - Rukeyser |
• Sackville - Yourcenar

Sackville - Yourcenar

• Sackville-West, Vita, English writer
• Sagan, Françoise, French novelist
• Sand, George, French novelist
• Sarton, May, American poet and novelist
• Sayers, Dorothy Leigh, English writer
• Sexton, Anne, American poet
• Shange, Ntozake, writer
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, English author
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, American author
• Smith, Stevie, English poet and novelist
• Sontag, Susan, American writer and critic
• Spark, Dame Muriel, Scottish novelist
• Spyri, Johanna, Swiss author
• Stafford, Jean, American writer
• Steel, Danielle (Danielle Fernande Schuelein-Steel), author
• Stein, Gertrude, American author and patron of the arts
• Steinem, Gloria, American journalist and feminist
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, American novelist and humanitarian
• Strauss, Juliet Virginia Humphreys, American writer
• Tarbell, Ida Minerva, American author
• Tartt, Donna, American writer
• Teasdale, Sara, American poet
• Trilling, Diana, writer
• Tyler, Anne, American novelist
• Vreeland, Diana, American fashion editor and consultant
• Walker, Alice, African American novelist and poet
• Warner, Susan Bogert (Elizabeth Wetherall), American novelist
• Wasserstein, Wendy, American playwright
• Wells, Ida Bell, American journalist, activist
• Welty, Eudora, American author
• West, Dame Rebecca, English novelist and critic
• Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, American novelist
• Wheatley, Phillis, American poet
• Winnemucca, Sarah, Paiute lecturer, educator, and writer
• Wolf, Christa, German novelist
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, English author and feminist
• Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin), and Tennessee Claflin, American journalists and lecturers
• Woolf, Virginia (Stephen), English novelist and essayist
• Yourcenar, Marguerite, French writer

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