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Female Literary Figures
Aidoo - Corelli
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Aidoo, Ama Ata, Ghanaian author, poet, and playwright
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Akhmatova, Anna, Russian poet Acmeist school
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Alcott, Louisa May, American author
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Allen, Paula Gunn, American Indian poet, novelist, critic
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Allende, Isabel, Chilean novelist
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Alvarez, Julia, American writer
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Angelou, Maya, American writer and performer
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Antin, Mary, Russian American writer
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Armstrong, Karen, English writer, catholic nun
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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, Canadian novelist and poet
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Austen, Jane, English novelist
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Ban Zhao, Chinese writer
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Bainbridge, Beryl, English writer
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Barnes, Djuna, American author.
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Beauvoir, Simone de, French author
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Behn, Aphra, first professional female English author
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Binchy, Maeve, Irish writer, journalist
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Bishop, Elizabeth, American poet
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Blume, Judy (Judy Sussman), writer
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Bogan, Louise, American poet and critic
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Bombeck, Erma (Erma Fiste), writer, humorist
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Botwin, Carol, writer, social critic
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Bowen, Elizabeth, Anglo-Irish novelist
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Boyle, Kay, American writer
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Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley), early American poet
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Brittain, Vera, English novelist and poet
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Brookner, Anita, English writer and art critic
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Brooks, Gwendolyn, American poet
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Brown, Helen Gurley, American writer and editor
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, English poet
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Buck, Pearl (Sydenstricker), American author
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Butler, Octavia, African-American writer
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Byatt, Antonia Susan, British novelist
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Caldwell, Taylor, American novelist
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Carson, Rachel Louise, American writer and marine biologist
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Cartland, Barbara, British writer
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Cather, Willa Sibert, American novelist and short-story writer
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Child, Lydia Maria, American author and abolitionist
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Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty, American author
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Christie, Dame Agatha, English detective story writer
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Cisneros, Sandra, American author
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Clark, Mary Higgins, American novelist
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Cleary, Beverly, American writer
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Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette), French novelist
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Compton-Burnett, Dame Ivy, English novelist
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Corelli, Marie, English novelist
Dickinson - Luce
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de Gouges, Olympe, French writer, feminist
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Dickinson, Emily, American poet
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Didion, Joan, American writer
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Dinesen, Isak, Danish author
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Dodge, Mary Mapes, American writer of children's stories
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Doolittle, Hilda, pseud. H. D., American poet
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Drabble, Margaret, English novelist
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Duras, Marguerite, French author
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Dworkin, Andrea, American writer, activist
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Edgeworth, Maria, Irish novelist
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Eliot, George, pseud. of Mary Ann Evans, English novelist
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Erdrich, Louise, American author
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Fadiman, Anne, American writer
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Frank, Anne, Dutch diarist
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Fuller, Margaret, American writer and lecturer
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Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson), English novelist
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Giovanni, Nikki, African-American poet, educator, activist
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Glasgow, Ellen, American novelist
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Godden, Rumer, English novelist
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of historical biographies
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Gordimer, Nadine, South African writer
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Greer, Germaine, Australian feminist and writer
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Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell), American author, editor, and feminist
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Hansberry, Lorraine, American playwright
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Hardwick, Elizabeth, literary critic, novelist, and short-story writer
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Hellman, Lillian, American dramatist
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Highsmith, Patricia, American novelist
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Hillenbrand, Laura, American writer
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Hokinson, Helen, American cartoonist
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Holley, Mary Austin, American author
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Howe, Julia Ward, American author and social reformer
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Hurston, Zora Neale, African American writer
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Ivins, Molly, Texan columnist
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James, P.D., English writer
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Jelinek, Elfriede, Austrian novelist and playwright
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Jewett, Sarah Orne, American novelist and short-story writer
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Jong, Erica (Mann), American novelist and poet
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Johnston, Lynn, Canadian cartoonist
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Kael, Pauline, American motion picture critic
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Kincaid, Jamaica, West Indian—American writer
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Kingsolver, Barbara, American writer
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Konigsburg, E. L., American children's book author
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LaDuke, Winona, American writer
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La Flesche, Susette, reformer, writer, and lecturer
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Larson, Nella, writer
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Lastis, Mary Jane (pseudonyms: Emma Lathen, R. B. Dominic), mystery writer
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Lazarus, Emma, American poet and essayist
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Lee, Harper, American author
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Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber, American writer
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L'Engle, Madeleine (Madeleine Camp), author
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Lessing, Doris, British novelist
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Levertov, Denise, Anglo-American poet
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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh), author
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Lindgren, Astrid, Swedish writer
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Lowell, Amy, American poet, biographer, and critic.
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Lowry, Lois, American writer
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Luce, Clare Boothe, American playwright and diplomat
Mansfield - Rukeyser
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Mansfield, Katherine, British author
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Mason, Bobbi Ann, writer
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Merril, Judith (Juliet Grossman; pseudonyms Ernest Hamilton, Cyril Judd, Judith Merril, Rose Sharon, Eric Thorstein), science fiction writer
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McCarthy, Mary Therese, American writer
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McCullers, Carson, American novelist
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, American poet
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Mitchell, Margaret, American novelist
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Mitford, Nancy, English novelist and biographer
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Mitford, Mary Russell, English author
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Moore, Marianne, American poet
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Morante, Elsa, Italian novelist and poet
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Mori, Kyoko, Japanese-American poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
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Morrison, Toni, American writer
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Munro, Alice, Canadian writer
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Murdoch, Dame Iris, British novelist and philosopher
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Nin, Anaïs, American writer
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Oates, Joyce Carol, American author
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Olds, Sharon, American poet
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Ozick, Cynthia, American writer
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Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild), American short-story and verse writer
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Petry, Ann, novelist
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Pisan, Christine de, French poet
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Plath, Sylvia, American poet
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Porter, Katherine Anne, American author
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Potter, Beatrix, English writer, illustrator
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Powell, Dawn, American novelist
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Proulx, Annie, American writer
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Raine, Kathleen, English poet and critic
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Rand, Ayn, American writer
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Renault, Mary, pseud. of Mary Challens, English novelist
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Rey, Margret, children's writer
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Rhys, Jean, English novelist
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Rice, Anne (Howard Allen O'Brien), American author
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Rich, Adrienne, American poet
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Rossetti, Christina Georgina, English poet
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Rowling, J. K., children's writer
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Rukeyser, Muriel, American poet
Sackville - Yourcenar
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Sackville-West, Vita, English writer
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Sagan, Françoise, French novelist
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Sand, George, French novelist
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Sarton, May, American poet and novelist
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Sayers, Dorothy Leigh, English writer
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Sexton, Anne, American poet
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Shange, Ntozake, writer
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, English author
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Silko, Leslie Marmon, American author
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Smith, Stevie, English poet and novelist
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Sontag, Susan, American writer and critic
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Spark, Dame Muriel, Scottish novelist
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Spyri, Johanna, Swiss author
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Stafford, Jean, American writer
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Steel, Danielle (Danielle Fernande Schuelein-Steel), author
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Stein, Gertrude, American author and patron of the arts
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Steinem, Gloria, American journalist and feminist
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, American novelist and humanitarian
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Strauss, Juliet Virginia Humphreys, American writer
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Tarbell, Ida Minerva, American author
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Tartt, Donna, American writer
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Teasdale, Sara, American poet
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Trilling, Diana, writer
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Tyler, Anne, American novelist
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Vreeland, Diana, American fashion editor and consultant
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Walker, Alice, African American novelist and poet
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Warner, Susan Bogert (Elizabeth Wetherall), American novelist
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Wasserstein, Wendy, American playwright
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Wells, Ida Bell, American journalist, activist
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Welty, Eudora, American author
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West, Dame Rebecca, English novelist and critic
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Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, American novelist
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Wheatley, Phillis, American poet
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Winnemucca, Sarah, Paiute lecturer, educator, and writer
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Wolf, Christa, German novelist
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, English author and feminist
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Woodhull, Victoria (Claflin), and Tennessee Claflin, American journalists and lecturers
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Woolf, Virginia (Stephen), English novelist and essayist
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Yourcenar, Marguerite, French writer
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