CZ:Literature Workgroup/Women in literature

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