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• Catherine Bernard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1622 - 16 September 1712
  • Types: French; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Catherine Cockburn
  • Alternative Names: Catherine Trotter Cockburn; Catherine Trotter
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 August 1679 – 11 May 1749
  • Types: English; Philosopher; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Marie de Gournay
  • Alternative Names: Marie de Jars de Gournay; Mary de Jars Gournay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 October 1565 - 13 July 1645
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Daughter of notable man; Editor or publisher; French; Writer, Novel
• Marie-Catherine Desjardins
  • Alternative Names: Mary Catharine des Jardin; Madame de Villedieu; Madame de Villedieu; Marie Catherine Villedieu
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1640 - 20 October 1683
  • Types: French; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Short fiction
• Elizabeth Rowe
  • Alternative Names: Philomela; Elizabeth Singer Rowe; Elizabeth Singer; The Pindarick Lady
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 September 1674–February 1737
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Lady Mary Wroth
  • Alternative Names: Mary Sidney; Lady Mary Wroth
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 18 October 1587 – 1651/3
  • Types: Sexual agency, transgression (hetero); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mary Hopkins Pilkington
  • Alternative Names: Mary Susannah Hopkins; Mary Pilkington
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 April 1761 – 1839
  • Types: Author or presenter; Educator, teacher; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mary Hays
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 October 1759 – 1843
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Author or presenter; Writer, Novel
• Aphra Behn
  • Alternative Names: Aphara Behn; Afra Behn; Mrs. Behn
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689
  • Types: English; Spy; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Mary Pix
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1666 - 17 May 1709
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Eliza Haywood
  • Alternative Names: Eliza Fowler
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1693 – 25 February 1756
  • Types: English; Performer, actress; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Frances Sheridan
  • Alternative Names: Frances Chamberlaine; Mrs. Sheridan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1724 – 26 September 1766
  • Types: Irish; Mother of notable man; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Charlotte Smith
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Turner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 May 1749 – 28 October 1806
  • Types: Divorced or separated; English; Prisoner or captive; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mary Brunton
  • Alternative Names: Mary Balfour; Mrs. Mary Brunton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 November 1778 – 7 December 1818
  • Types: Scottish; Writer, Novel
• Helen Maria Williams
  • Alternative Names: H. M. Williams
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1762 - 15 December 1827
  • Types: Abolitionist; English; Prisoner or captive; Translator; Writer; Writer, Epistolary; Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Amelia Opie
  • Alternative Names: Amelia Alderson; Amelia Alderson Opie; Mrs. Opie; Mrs. Amelia Opie
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853
  • Types: Abolitionist; English; Member of local society; Philanthropist; Society or High Rank; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Countess D'Haupoult Beaufort
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Maria Edgeworth
  • Alternative Names: Miss Edgeworth
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Irish; Reformer, education; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Sarah Fielding
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 November 1710 – 9 April 1768
  • Types: English; Sister of notable man; Writer for children; Writer, Novel
• Madame de Genlis
  • Alternative Names: Madame de Genlis; Caroline-Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis; Stéphanie Félicité du Crest de Saint-Aubin; Stephanie-Felicite du Crest de Saint-Aubin; Madame Stéphanie de Genlis; The Comtesse de Genlis
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 January 1746 - 31 December 1830
  • Types: Composer; Educator, teacher; French; Society or High Rank; Writer for children; Writer, Novel
• Mary Elizabeth de Lafite
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 21 August 1737
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Charlotte Lennox
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Ramsay; Barbara Charlotte Ramsay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1730 – 4 January 1804
  • Types: Performer, actress; Scottish; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Annabella Plumptre
  • Alternative Names: Anne Plumptre
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1760 - 1818
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; English; Translator; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Elizabeth Plunkett
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Gunning; Gunilda Gunning
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1769 - 1823
  • Types: English; Translator; Writer, Novel
• Jane Porter
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 17 January 1776 – 24 May 1850
  • Types: English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Anna Maria Porter
  • Alternative Names: Miss A. M. Porter; Anna Porter
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 December 1778 – 21 September 1832
  • Types: English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Madame de Staël
  • Alternative Names: Anne Louise Germain de Stael; Anne Louise Germaine Necker; Madame de Stael; Germaine de Staël; Mme de Staël; Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein; Madam De Staël; Madame de Stael; Madame de Staël; Madame de Staël-Holstein
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817
  • Types: Role in revolution; Salonniere; Society or High Rank; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Jane West
  • Alternative Names: Jane Iliffe; Jane Iliffe West
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1758 - 1852
  • Types: English; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Louisa May Alcott
  • Alternative Names: Louisa Alcott; Miss Alcott; Louisa M. Alcott; A. M. Barnard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 29 November 1832 – 6 March 1888
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Educator, teacher; Medicine, nurse; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Jane Austen
  • Alternative Names: Miss Austen; Miss Jane Austen
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Charlotte Brontë
  • Alternative Names: Currer Bell; Charlotte Bronte; Charlotte Bronté; Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls; Charlotte Nicholls
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855
  • Types: Educator, teacher; English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Alternative Names: Harriet Elisabeth Beecher; Mrs. Stowe
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 14 June 1811 – 1 July 1896
  • Types: Abolitionist; American (US); Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• George Sand
  • Alternative Names: Aurore Dudevant; Mme Dudevant; Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin; Aurore Dupin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876
  • Types: Cross-dresser; French; Lover or muse of writer or artist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Ouida
  • Alternative Names: Marie Louise de la Ramée; Madame de la Ouida Ramee; Ouida; Maria Louise Ramé; Maria Louisa Ramee; Marie Louise Ramée
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Frances Trollope
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Trollope; Frances Milton Trollope; Fanny Trollope; Mrs. Trollope
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863
  • Types: Abolitionist; English; Financial crisis or bankruptcy; Mother of notable man; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Léonie d'Aunet
  • Alternative Names: Léonie Thévenot d'Aunet; Madame d'Aunet
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1820 - 21 March 1879
  • Types: French; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Lady Florence Dixie
  • Alternative Names: Lady Florence Caroline Dixie; Lady Florence Douglas
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 May 1855 – 7 November 1905
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Journalist; Politician; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Elizabeth Inchbald
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald; Eizabeth Simpson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 October 1753–1 August 1821
  • Types: English; Performer, actress; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Grace Aguilar
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 June 1816 – 16 September 1847
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Jewish; Model of race; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Amelia Barr
  • Alternative Names: Amelia Edith Barr; Amelia Huddleston Barr; Amelia E. Barr; Amelia Edith Huddleston
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 29 March 1831–10 March 1919
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• George Eliot
  • Alternative Names: Marian Evans Cross; Mary Anne Cross; Mary Ann Evans; Marian Evans; Mary Anne Evans; "Mrs. Lewes"
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880
  • Types: Editor or publisher; English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Fanny Fern
  • Alternative Names: Sara Willis Parton; Sara Willis; Sarah Payson Willis
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 July 1811 – 10 October 1872
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Self-made rich woman; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Jean Ingelow
  • Alternative Names: Orris
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897
  • Types: English; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • Alternative Names: Mary Gray Phelps; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 31 August 1844 – 28 January 1911
  • Types: Celebrity for other than performance; Writer, Novel
• Helen Rosaline Ashton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 18 October 1891 - 27 June 1958
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Medicine, doctor; Writer, Novel
• Anne Brontë
  • Alternative Names: Acton Bell; Anne Bronte
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849
  • Types: Educator, teacher; English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mary Vance Humphrey
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Mary Anne Vance Humphrey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 14 February 1838 - 27 June 1916
  • Types: American (US); Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Kate A. Aplington
  • Alternative Names: Kate Adele Aplington; Kate Adele Smith Aplington; Kate Adele Smith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 March 1859 - 26 September 1928
  • Types: Activist; Artist, painter; Artist, photographer; Politician; Suffragette; Writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Margaret Hill McCarter
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 May 1860 - 31 August 1938
  • Types: American (US); Educator, teacher; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
  • Alternative Names: Lily Moresby Adams; Elizabeth Barrington; E. Barrington; Lily Adams Beck; Elizabeth Louisa Beck; L. Adams Beck; Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck; Louis Moresby
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1862 – 3 January 1931
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 December 1789 – 31 July 1867
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Lydia Maria Child
  • Alternative Names: Lydia Maria Francis Child; L. Maria Child; L. M. Child; Maria Child; Lydia Francis; Lydia Maria Francis
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 February 1802 – 20 October 1880
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Author or presenter; Journalist; Member of committee or club; Writer for children; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • Alternative Names: Matilda Barbara Betham Edwards
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 March 1836 - 4 January 1919
  • Types: Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Fernan Caballero
  • Alternative Names: Dona Cecilia Bohl de Faber; Marquesa de Arco Hermoso
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Spanish; Writer, Novel
• Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Alternative Names: L. E. L.; L. E. L.; Letitia Elizabeth Maclean; Mrs. Maclean
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Eliza Lynn Linton
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Lynn Linton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 February 1822 - 14 July 1898
  • Types: English; Journalist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Riddell
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Eliza Cowan; Charlotte Eliza Lawson Riddell; Mrs. J. H. Riddell; F. G. Trafford
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 September 1832 – 24 September 1906
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Irish; Writer, Novel
• Rhoda Broughton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 29 November 1840 - 5 June 1920
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Arthur Stannard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 January 1856 - 13 December 1911
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Alexander
  • Alternative Names: Annie French; Annie Hector; Mrs. Alexander Hector
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 June 1825 - 10 July 1902
  • Types: Irish; Widow; Writer, Novel
• Helen Mathers
  • Alternative Names: Ellen Buckingham Mathers; Mrs. Reeves
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1853 - 1920
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Florence Marryat
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1833 - 1899
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; English; Performer, actress; Writer, Novel
• Emily Lovett Cameron
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1844 - 1921
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Hungerford
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Hamilton; Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1855 - 1897
  • Types: Irish; Writer, Novel
• Edna Lyall
  • Alternative Names: Ada Ellen Bayly
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 March 1857 - 8 February 1903
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 September 1840 - 9 July 1909
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer for children; Writer, Novel
• Adeline Sergeant
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 July 1851 - 4 December 1904
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Jessie Fothergill
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: June 1851 - 28 July 1891
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Lady Duffus Hardy
  • Alternative Names: Mary Anne Hardy; Addlestone Hill; Mary Anne MacDowell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 February 1824 – 19 May 1891
  • Types: Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Iza Duffus Hardy
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1850 - 1922
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• May Crommelin
  • Alternative Names: May Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin; May de la Cherois Crommelin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1850 - 1930
  • Types: Adventuress, self-promoting entrepreneur; Expatriated, exiled person; Irish; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Houstoun
  • Alternative Names: Matilda Fraser; Matilda Charlotte Houstoun; Matilda Jesse
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: d. 1892
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; English; Traveler, travel writer; Widow; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Alexander Fraser
  • Alternative Names: Caroline Rosetta Small
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1829 - 1908
  • Types: Divorced or separated; English; Writer, Novel
• Honourable Mrs. Henry Chetwynd
  • Alternative Names: Julie Bosville Chetwynd; Julie Davidson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1828 - 1901
  • Types: Inventor; Performer, musician; Performer, singer; Scottish; Writer, Novel
• Augusta De Grasse Stevens
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1852 - 1894
  • Types: American (US); Journalist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Mrs. Leith Adams
  • Alternative Names: Bertha Jane Adams; Bertha Jane Grundy; Mrs. Laffan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1837 - 1912
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Journalist; Medicine, nurse; Performer, musician; Reformer, education; Widow; Writer, Novel
• Elizabeth Casey
  • Alternative Names: E. Owens Blackburne; Elizabeth Owens Blackburne; Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 May 1845 - 4 April 1894
  • Types: Author or presenter; Disabled; Irish; Journalist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Lady Georgiana Fullerton
  • Alternative Names: Georgiana Charlotte Leveson Gower
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 September 1812 - 19 January 1885
  • Types: Model of faith, piety; Writer, Novel
• Pauline Craven
  • Alternative Names: Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Craven; Madame Augustus Craven; Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Ferron de La Ferronnays
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 April 1808 - 1 April 1891
  • Types: French; Society or High Rank; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Amelia Blandford Edwards
  • Alternative Names: Amelia B. Edwards; Amelia Blanford Edwards; Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 June 1831 - 15 April 1892
  • Types: Historian; Journalist; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Mary Virginia Terhune
  • Alternative Names: Marion Harland; Mary Virginia Hawes
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 December 1830 – 3 June 1922
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Ethel M. Dell
  • Alternative Names: Ethel May Dell; Ethel Mary Savage
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 August 1881 - 19 September 1939
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• The Baroness Orczy
  • Alternative Names: Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947
  • Types: Artist, painter; Hungarian; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
  • Alternative Names: Cecily Ullmann Sidgwick; Cecily Wilhelmine Sidgwick; Cecily Ullmann
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1855 - 1934
  • Types: German; Jewish; Writer, Novel
• Mrs Henry de la Pasture
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham; Lady Clifford; Mrs. Henry de la Pasture
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1866 - 30 October 1945
  • Types: English; Society or High Rank; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Baillie-Reynolds
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Baillie Reynolds; Gertrude Minnie Robins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1861 - 1939
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
  • Alternative Names: Madame Valmore
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 June 1786 – 23 July 1859
  • Types: French; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Victoria Earle Matthews
  • Alternative Names: Victoria Earle; Ella Victoria Mathers; Mrs. W. E. Mathews; Victoria Earle Mathews; Victoria E. Matthews; Victoria Matthews; Victoria Smith; Ella Victoria Smith; Victoria Earle Smith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 May 1861 - 10 March 1907
  • Types: Activist; American, African; American (US); Enslaved person, bondservant, former enslaved person; Journalist; Member of committee or club; Member of local society; Missionary; Person of Mixed Race or Ethnicity; Social worker; Victim of injustice; Writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Kent Carr
  • Alternative Names: Gertrude Kent Carr; Mrs. Edwin Oliver
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 October 1871 - 17 March 1955
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Annie Emma Armstrong Challice
  • Alternative Names: Annie Emma Armstrong; Annie Emma Challice
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1821 - 1875
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Emily E. Chubbuck Judson
  • Alternative Names: Fanny Forrester; Emily Chubbuck Judson; Mrs. Emily C. Judson; Mrs. Emily C. Judson of Burma
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 August 1817 – 1 June 1854
  • Types: Author or presenter; Missionary; Writer, Novel
• Isabel Constance Clarke
  • Alternative Names: Isabel C. Clarke
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1869 - 13 April 1951
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• John Oliver Hobbes
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Craigie; Pearl Richards
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1867 – 1906
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Mary Cowden Clarke
  • Alternative Names: Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke; Mary Victoria Cowden Novello; Mary Victoria Cowden Novello Clarke
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 June 1809 - 12 January 1898
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Isabel Reaney
  • Alternative Names: Isabella Edis; Isabella Emily Thomasa Edis; Mrs. Isabel Edis Reaney; Mrs. George Sale Reaney
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 July 1847 - 19 June 1929
  • Types: English; Preacher; Reformer, political; Social worker; Temperance worker; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Frances Burney
  • Alternative Names: Fanny Burney; Madame d'Arblay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Dinah Mulock Craik
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Craik; Dinah Maria Mulock; Miss Mulock; Dinah Mulock
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 April 1826 - 12 October 1887
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Dame Margaret Postgate Cole DBE
  • Alternative Names: M. Postgate Cole DBE; Dame Margaret Cole DBE; Dame Margaret Isabel Cole DBE; Dame Margaret Isabel Postgate Cole DBE
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 May 1893 - 7 May 1980
  • Types: Author or presenter; Educational founder, schoolmistress; English; Politician; Scholar of literatures, classics; Writer, Novel
• Emily Brontë
  • Alternative Names: Ellis Bell; Emily Bronte; Emily Jane Brontë
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848
  • Types: Educator, teacher; English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Miss Alice Abigail Corkran
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1856 - 1916
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Journalist; Writer for children; Writer, Novel
• Sidney Dark
  • Alternative Names: Sidney Ernest Dark
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 14 January 1874 - 11 October 1947
  • Types: Author or presenter; Editor or publisher; English; Journalist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Frederika Bremer
  • Alternative Names: Fredrika Bremer
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 August 1801 - 31 December 1865
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel
• A.L.O.E.
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Maria Tucker; Miss Tucker
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 May 1821 - 2 December 1893
  • Types: Missionary; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer for children; Writer, Novel
• Floyd James Dell
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 28 June 1887 - 23 July 1969
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Editor or publisher; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Eva Emery Dye
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1855 - 1947
  • Types: Activist; Writer, Novel
• Frances Fuller Victor
  • Alternative Names: Dorothy D; Florence Fane
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 May 1826 – 14 November 1902
  • Types: Historian; Writer, Novel
• Flora Eldershaw
  • Alternative Names: Flora Sydney Patricia Eldershaw; M. Barnard Eldershaw
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 March 1897 - 20 September 1956
  • Types: Activist; Author or presenter; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Woods
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Louisa Bradley; Margaret Louisa Woods
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 November 1855 – 1 December 1945
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Mary Sewell
  • Alternative Names: Mary Wright Sewell; Mrs. Sewell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 April 1797 - 10 June 1884
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Inez Haynes Irwin
  • Alternative Names: Inez Haynes Gillmore; Ines Haynes Irwin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 March 1873 – 30 September 1970
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Journalist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Frances A. Gerard
  • Alternative Names: Geraldine Penrose Fitzgerald; Frances Gerard; Naseby
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1846 - 1939
  • Types: Author or presenter; Irish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Sydney, Lady Morgan
  • Alternative Names: Glorvina; Lady Morgan; Sydney Morgan; Sydney Owenson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1783 - 13 April 1859
  • Types: Irish; Society or High Rank; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Caroline Norton
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Norton; Lady Stirling Maxell; Lady Stirling Maxwell of Keir; Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton; Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan; The Honourable Mrs. Norton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Beauty, celebrated; Irish; Reformer, political; Society or High Rank; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Annie Somers Gilchrist
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1841 - 2 February 1912
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• M. L. Goldsmith
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Leland Goldsmith; Margaret L. Goldsmith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1894 - 1971
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; English; Journalist; Translator; Writer, Novel
• Mrs H C Mullens
  • Alternative Names: Hannah Catherine Lacroix; Hana Catherine Mullens
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1826 - 1861
  • Types: Missionary; Religious sect member, recent or current; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner
  • Alternative Names: Bertha Kinsky; Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; Baroness Bertha von Suttner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914
  • Types: Author or presenter; Pacifist; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel
• Leonard Reginald Gribble
  • Alternative Names: Muir; Browning; Leo Grex; Louis Grey; Piers Marlowe; Bruce Sanders
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 1 February 1908 - 27 September 1985
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Ann Eliza Bleecker
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Anna Eliza Bleecker
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: October 1752 – 23 November 1783
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Susannah Rowson
  • Alternative Names: Miss Susannah Haswell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1762 - 1824
  • Types: Educational founder, schoolmistress; Performer, actress; Philanthropist; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Browne; Charlotte Elizabeth; Mrs. Charlotte Phelan; Mrs. Lewis Tonna; Mrs. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 October 1790 – 12 July 1846
  • Types: Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Anna Maria Hall
  • Alternative Names: Anna Maria Fielding
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 January 1800 - 30 January 1881
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Irish; Philanthropist; Temperance worker; Wife of notable man; Writer, Novel
• Julia Kavanagh
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 January 1824 - 28 October 1877
  • Types: Author or presenter; French; Irish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 September 1782 – 5 November 1854
  • Types: Scottish; Writer, Novel
• Madeleine de Scudéry
  • Alternative Names: Mademoiselle de Scudery; Magdeline de Scudery; Madeline de Scudéry; Madame de Scudéry; Mademoiselle de Scudéry
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701
  • Types: French; Salonniere; Sister of notable man; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Amalie Skram
  • Alternative Names: Berthe Amalie Alver; Amalie Müller
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 August 1846 - 15 March 1905
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; Divorced or separated; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Bettina Von Arnim
  • Alternative Names: Countess of Arnim; Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 April 1785 – 20 January 1859
  • Types: Activist; Artist, illustrator; Composer; German; Performer, singer; Writer, Novel
• Maria J. McIntosh
  • Alternative Names: Aunt Kitty; Maria Jane McIntosh
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1803 - 25 February 1878
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Caroline M Kirkland
  • Alternative Names: Mary Clavers
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 January 1801 – 6 April 1864
  • Types: Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Ann S. Stephens
  • Alternative Names: Jonathan Slick
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 March 1810 - 20 August 1886
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Writer, Novel
• Margaret Deland
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Wade Campbell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 February 1857 – 13 January 1945
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Edith Wharton
  • Alternative Names: Edith Newbold Jones
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 January 1862 - 11 August 1937
  • Types: American (US); Designer; Divorced or separated; Society or High Rank; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Emily Sarah Holt
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1836 - 1893
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Joyce Mary Horner
  • Alternative Names: Joyce M. Horner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 July 1903 - 24 March 1980
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Educator, professor; English; Writer, diarist; Writer, Epistolary; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Arsène Houssaye
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 28 March 1815 - 26 February 1896
  • Types: Author or presenter; French; Scholar of literatures, classics; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Isabella M. Alden
  • Alternative Names: "Pansy"; Isabella Macdonald Alden; Isabella "Pansy" Alden; Isabella Macdonald; "Pansy"
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 November 1841 – 5 August 1930
  • Types: Educator, teacher; Writer for children; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Payson; Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Julia Pardoe
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 4 December 1806 - 26 November 1862
  • Types: English; Historian; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Frances Browne
  • Alternative Names: Frances Brown
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 June 1818 - 21 August 1879
  • Types: Irish; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• May Sinclair
  • Alternative Names: Mary Amelia St. Clair
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 August 1863 - 14 November 1946
  • Types: English; Suffragette; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Elinor Mordaunt
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Robert Rawnsley Bowles; Evelyn May Clowes; Evelyn May Mordaunt; Elenor Mordaunt; Mrs. Elinor Wiehe
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 May 1872 – 25 June 1942
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Rose Macaulay
  • Alternative Names: Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay DBE
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Writer, Novel
• Sheila Kaye-Smith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 February 1887 - 14 January 1956
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Ethel Sidgwick
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Viola Meynell
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Dallyn
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 October 1885 - 27 October 1956
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Dorothy Richardson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 May 1873 - 17 June 1957
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Virginia Woolf
  • Alternative Names: Adeline Virginia Stephen; Virginia Stephen
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; Philosopher; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• E. M. Delafield
  • Alternative Names: Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Clemence Dane
  • Alternative Names: Winifred Ashton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 February 1888 – 28 March 1965
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Mary Fulton
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Hope Mirrlees
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 April 1887 – 1 August 1978
  • Types: Translator; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Madame de Tencin
  • Alternative Names: Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin; Queen of beaux esprits; The Nun Tencin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 April 1682 – 4 December 1749
  • Types: French; Nun; Salonniere; Writer, Novel
• Lady Caroline Lamb
  • Alternative Names: Caroline Ponsonby
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 November 1785 – 26 January 1828
  • Types: English; Lover or muse of writer or artist; Society or High Rank; Wife of notable man; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• L. M. McCraith
  • Gender: Unknown
  • Types: Author or presenter; Irish; Writer, Novel
• Emily Eden
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 March 1797 – 5 August 1869
  • Types: Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell; Mrs. Gaskell; Elizabeth Stevenson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865
  • Types: English; Philanthropist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Alternative Names: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Mary Shelley
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; Daughter of notable woman; English; Traveler, travel writer; Wife of notable man; Writer, Novel
• Ethel Colburn Mayne
  • Alternative Names: Frances E. Huntley
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 January 1865 - 30 April 1941
  • Types: Author or presenter; Editor or publisher; Irish; Journalist; Translator; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Charlotte Charke
  • Alternative Names: Charles Brown; Charlotte Cibber
  • Gender: Transgender
  • Life Dates: 13 January 1713 - 6 April 1760
  • Types: Cross-dresser; English; Performer, actress; Writer, Novel
• Jane Taylor
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 September 1783 – 13 April 1824
  • Types: Editor or publisher; Writer for children; Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Alternative Names: L. M. Montgomery; Maud Montgomery
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 November 1874 - 24 April 1942
  • Types: Author or presenter; Canadian; Writer for children; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Margaret Marshall Saunders
  • Alternative Names: Marshall Saunders
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 May 1861–15 February 1947
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Elinor Wylie
  • Alternative Names: Elinor Morton Wylie
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• The Duchess of Duras
  • Alternative Names: Claire de Duras; Claire de Kersaint; Madame de Duras
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 March 1777 - 16 January 1828
  • Types: French; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Margaret Wilson Oliphant
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Oliphant
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 April 1828 - 25 June 1897
  • Types: Journalist; Scottish; Writer, Novel
• Caroline Clive
  • Alternative Names: Caroline Wigley Clive; Mrs. Archer Clive; V
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 June 1801 – 13 July 1873
  • Types: Disabled; Heiress; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Alternative Names: Ellen Price; Ellen Wood
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 January 1814 - 10 Feb. 1887
  • Types: Disabled; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Stretton
  • Alternative Names: Julia Cecilia Collinson; Mrs. Walter de Winton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 November 1812 - 17 July 1878
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Mary Anne Sadlier
  • Alternative Names: Mary Anne Madden; Mrs. J. Sadlier
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 December 1820 - 5 April 1903
  • Types: Irish; Model of faith, piety; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Alice Brown
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 5 December 1857 – 21 June 1948
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 April 1873 – 21 November 1945
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Gertrude Atherton
  • Alternative Names: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 October 1857 - 14 June 1948
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Alternative Names: Mary Ella Roberts
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 August 1876 – 22 September 1958
  • Types: Adventure, physical feat or survival; Writer, Novel
• Kathleen Norris
  • Alternative Names: Kathleen Thompson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 July 1880 - 18 January 1966
  • Types: American (US); Journalist; Writer, Novel
• Eleanor H Porter
  • Alternative Names: Eleanor Emily Hogman
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 December 1868 – 21 May 1920
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Corra Harris
  • Alternative Names: Corra Mae Harris
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 March 1869 - 7 February 1935
  • Types: American (US); Journalist; Writer, Novel
• Mary Stanbery Watts
  • Alternative Names: Mary S. Watts
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1868 - 1958
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Alternative Names: Mary Eleanor Wilkins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 31 October 1852 – 13 March 1930
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Anna Katharine Green
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 November 1846 - 11 April 1935
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Helen Reimensnyder Martin
  • Alternative Names: Helen R. Martin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1868 - 1939
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Willa Sibert Cather
  • Alternative Names: Willa Cather
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 December 1873 – 24 April 1947
  • Types: American (US); Editor or publisher; Educator, teacher; Gender nonconforming; Sexual agency, transgression (homo); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Clara Louise Burnham
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 May 1854 - 20 June 1927
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Edna Ferber
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 August 1885 – 16 April 1968
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • Alternative Names: Dorothea Frances Canfield
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 February 1879 - 9 November 1958
  • Types: Activist; American (US); Reformer, education; Writer, Novel
• Alice Hegan Rice
  • Alternative Names: Alice Caldwell Hegan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 January 1870 - 10 February 1942
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Harriet T Comstock
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1860–1925
  • Types: Writer for children; Writer, Novel
• Honoré Willsie Morrow
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 February 1880 - 12 April 1940
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen
  • Alternative Names: Emily Owen; Emily Octavius Freire Owen
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Author or presenter; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Emma Raymond Pitman
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Emma R. Pitman; Mrs. E. R. Pitman
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Author or presenter; Missionary; Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel
• Robert Folkestone Williams
  • Alternative Names: Frank Ranelagh
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 1805 - 1872
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Eliza Ann Dupuy
  • Alternative Names: Annie Young
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1814 - 1880
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Rosa Vertner Jeffrey
  • Alternative Names: Rosa Vertner Griffith Johnson Jeffrey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1828 - 1894
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Miss Nelly Marshall
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 1847
  • Types: Daughter of notable man; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Mary Walsingham Crean
  • Alternative Names: May Rie
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 1860 - 1881
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Maria Jourdan Westmoreland
  • Alternative Names: Maria Elizabeth Jourdan; Mrs. Warren Jourdan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. ca. 1816
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Maria Lou Eve
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Miss Fanny Andrews
  • Alternative Names: Eliza Frances Andrews; Elzey Hay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 August 1840 - 21 January 1931 CE
  • Types: American (US); Educator, teacher; Journalist; Representative of region; Representative of state, current; Scientist; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer; Writer, diarist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Mrs. Margaret J. Preston
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Junkin
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 May 1820 - 28 March 1897
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Constance Cary Harrison
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Burton Harrison; Refugitta
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 April 1843 - 21 November 1920
  • Types: American (US); Wife of notable man; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Martha Haines Butt Bennett
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1833 – 1871
  • Types: Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Miss Sarah J.C. Whittlesey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1825 - 1896
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Laura R Fewell
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Sue Petigru King
  • Alternative Names: female Thackery of America; Mrs. S.P. King; Susan DuPont Petigru King-Bowen
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 October 1824 - December 1875
  • Types: American (US); Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Caroline Howard Jervey
  • Alternative Names: Caroline Howard; Mrs. Caroline H. Jervey; Caroline Howard Gilman Glover Jervey; Mrs. Lewis Jervey
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1823 - 1877
  • Types: American (US); Educator, teacher; Single mother; Widow; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Anne Moncure Crane
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 January 1838 – 10 December 1872
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Laurence Sterne
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768
  • Types: Clergy; English; Irish; Writer, Novel
• Anne Isabella Thackeray
  • Alternative Names: Anne Isabella; Lady Ritchie
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 June 1837 – 26 February 1919
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Margaret Roberts
  • Alternative Names: Miss Margaret Roberts
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1833 - 1919
  • Types: Author or presenter; Educator, teacher; English; Translator; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• anon00193
  • Alternative Names: Early Minor Writers
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Menella Bute Smedley
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1820 - 1877
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Edward Robins
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 2 March 1862 - 22 May 1943
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Historian; Journalist; Writer for children; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Frances Brooke
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Frances Moore Brooke; Frances Moore; Mary Singleton, Spinster
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 January 1724 – 23 January 1789
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Anna Theresa Sadlier
  • Alternative Names: Anna T. Sadlier
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1854 - 1932
  • Types: Canadian; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Nelle Margaret Scanlan
  • Alternative Names: Ellen Margaret Scanlan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 January 1882 - 5 October 1968
  • Types: Author or presenter; Journalist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Eleanor Scott
  • Alternative Names: Helen Madeline Leys; P. R. Shore
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1892 - 1965
  • Types: Author or presenter; Educational founder, schoolmistress; Educator, teacher; English; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
  • Alternative Names: Marie-Jeanne Laboras de Mézières; Madame Riccoboni
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 October 1713 - 7 December 1792
  • Types: Divorced or separated; Editor or publisher; French; Performer, actress; Wife of notable man; Writer; Writer, Novel
• John Frederick Smith
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 1806 - 1890
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
  • Alternative Names: Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 April 1835 - 14 August 1921
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Journalist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 September 1849 - 24 June 1909
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Alternative Names: Louise Chandler; Ellen Louise
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 10 April 1835 - 10 August 1908
  • Types: American (US); Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Traveler, travel writer; Writer for children; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Mary Clemmer Ames
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Edmund Hudson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 May 1831 – 18 August 1884
  • Types: Journalist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Albert Payson Terhune
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 21 December 1872 - 18 February 1942
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Journalist; Writer, Novel
• Mary Robinson
  • Alternative Names: Mary Darby; Mary Ann Darby; Mary \"Perdita\" Robinson; Perdita Robinson; Mary Darby Robinson; Mrs. Mary Robinson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 November 1757 – 26 December 1800
  • Types: English; Mistress of royalty; Performer, actress; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Thomson
  • Alternative Names: Katherine Thomson; Katherine Byerley Thomson; Mrs. A. T. Thomson; Grace Wharton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1797 - 17 December 1862
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Historian; Writer, Novel
• Anne Seymour Damer
  • Alternative Names: Anne Seymour Conway; Anne Damer; Mrs. Anne Damer; Anne Seymour-Damer
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 November 1748 – 28 May 1828
  • Types: Artist, sculptor; Writer, Novel
• Thomas Adolphus Trollope
  • Alternative Names: Trollope Adolphus; T. A. Trollope; T. Adolphus Trollope; Thomas A. Trollope
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 29 April 1810 - 11 November 1892
  • Types: Author or presenter; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Sarah Tytler
  • Alternative Names: Henrietta Keddie
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1827 - 1914
  • Types: Author or presenter; Scottish; Writer, Novel
• Lucy Bethia Walford
  • Alternative Names: Lucy Colquhoun; Mrs. Lucy Bethia Colquhoun Walford
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 April 1845 - 11 May 1915
  • Types: Artist, painter; Author or presenter; Daughter of notable man; Scottish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Clara Reeve
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 January 1729 - 3 December 1807
  • Types: English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Sophia Lee
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1750 – 13 March 1824
  • Types: Educational founder, schoolmistress; English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Harriet Lee
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1757 - 1 August 1851
  • Types: English; Sister of eminent woman; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Catherine Grace Frances Gore
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Gore; Catherine Moody; Miss Nevinson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 February 1798 - 29 January 1861
  • Types: English; Expatriated, exiled person; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Anna Eliza Bray
  • Alternative Names: Anna Eliza Kempe; Anna Eliza Stothard
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 December 1790 – 21 January 1883
  • Types: Editor or publisher; English; Wife of notable man; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• William Henry Williamson
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• R. McNair Wilson
  • Alternative Names: Robert McNair Wilson; Anthony Wynne
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 1882-1963
  • Types: Author or presenter; Historian; Medicine, doctor; Scottish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Henriette de Witt
  • Alternative Names: Henriette Guizot de Witt; Henriette Elizabeth de Witt; Mme de Witt, neé Guizot
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1829 - 1908
  • Types: Author or presenter; French; Historian; Translator; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Philosopher; Traveler, travel writer; Wife of notable man; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Shikibu Murasaki
  • Alternative Names: Lady Murasaki; Lady Shikibu Murasaki
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: ca. 973 - ca. 1014
  • Types: Society or High Rank; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Olive Schreiner
  • Alternative Names: Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920
  • Types: Pacifist; Philosopher; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Perkins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 July 1860 – 17 August 1935
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; Artist, painter; Reformer, political; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Zora Neale Hurston
  • Alternative Names: Zora Neale Hurston
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 January 1891 – 28 January 1960
  • Types: American, African; Writer, Novel
• Elizabeth Coxhead
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1909 - 1979
  • Types: Author or presenter; Writer, Novel
• Harry Sinclair Drago
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 20 March 1887 - 25 October 1979
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Jesse Redmon Fauset
  • Alternative Names: Jessie Fauset
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 April 1882 – 30 April 1961
  • Types: American, African; Editor or publisher; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Margaret Forster
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 25 May 1938 - (alive)
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Harriet Garnett
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1794 – 1874
  • Types: English; Translator; Writer, Novel
• Elizabeth Jenkins
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Elizabeth Jenkins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 31 October 1905 - 5 September 2010
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer, Novel
• Diane Johnson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 28 April 1934
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Writer, Novel
• Robert A. Liston
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: b. 1927
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Journalist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Alternative Names: Frances E.W. Harper; Mrs. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Frances Harper; Frances Watkins Harper; Frances Watkins
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 September 1825 - 22 February 1911
  • Types: Abolitionist; Activist; Activist, Women's Rights; American, African; American (US); Educator, teacher; Member of committee or club; Temperance worker; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Gertrude Stein
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 3 February 1874 - 27 July 1946
  • Types: American (US); Lesbian; Salonniere; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Margaret Mitchell
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 November 1900 - 16 August 1949
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Jean Rhys
  • Alternative Names: Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 August 1890 - 14 May 1979
  • Types: Caribbean; English; Writer, Novel
• Francine Prose
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 April 1947
  • Types: American (US); Author or presenter; Educator, teacher; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Maya Angelou
  • Alternative Names: Rita Angelou; Marguerite Ann Johnson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014
  • Types: Activist; Activist; American, African; Journalist; Model of overcoming urban poverty; Performer, actress; Performer, dancer; Performer, other entertainment; Performer, singer; Self-made rich woman; Sex worker; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Nina Berberova
  • Alternative Names: Nina Nikolayevna Berberova
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 July 1901 - 26 September 1993
  • Types: Russian; Writer, Novel
• Vera Brittain
  • Alternative Names: Vera Mary Brittain
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 29 December 1893 - 29 March 1970
  • Types: English; Medicine, nurse; Pacifist; Writer, Novel
• Colette
  • Alternative Names: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 January 1873 - 3 August 1954
  • Types: French; Writer, Novel
• Cynthia Ozick
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 17 April 1928
  • Types: American (US); Jewish; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Sylvia Plath
  • Alternative Names: Sylvia Plath Hughes
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 October 1932 - 11 February 1963
  • Types: American (US); Wife of notable man; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Santha Rama Rau
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 January 1923 – 21 April 2009
  • Types: Asian, South; Journalist; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Alternative Names: Marjorie Kinnan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 August 1896 - 14 December 1953
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Leonora Carrington
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 April 1917 - 25 May 2011
  • Types: Artist, painter; English; Writer, Novel
• Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Alternative Names: Alice Nourse
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 January 1882 – 14 March 1967
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Evelyn Underhill
  • Alternative Names: Evelyn Underhill Moore; Evelyn Moore; Mrs. Moore; Evelyn Stuart Moore; Evelyn Maud Bosworth Underhill
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 December 1875 – 15 June 1941
  • Types: Philosopher; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 30 May 1899 – 9 July 1979
  • Types: Performer, actress; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Sara Pennoyer
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 1900 (?)
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Isabel Allende
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 August 1942 -
  • Types: American, Latin; Spanish-speaking; Writer, Novel
• Julia Alvarez
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 27 March 1950
  • Types: American, Latin; Writer, Novel
• Ana Castillo
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 June 1953
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; American, Latin; Educator, professor; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Sandra Cisneros
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 December 1950
  • Types: American, Latin; Author or presenter; Writer, Novel
• Nicholasa Mohr
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 1 November 1938
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Nella Larsen
  • Alternative Names: Nella Larsen Imes; Nellallitea Larsen; Nellie Walker
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 13 April 1891 – 30 March 1964
  • Types: American, African; Librarian; Medicine, nurse; Writer, Novel
• Lady Charlotte Campbell
  • Alternative Names: Lady Charlotte; Lady Charlotte Bury; Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Campbell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 January 1775 - 1 April 1861
  • Types: Beauty, celebrated; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Juliette Lamber
  • Alternative Names: Juliette Adam; Juliette Lambert
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 October 1836 - 23 August 1936
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; French; Writer, Novel
• George Payne Rainsford James
  • Alternative Names: G. P. R. James
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 9 August 1799 - 9 June 1860
  • Types: Editor or publisher; English; Writer, Novel
• Maurice Samuel
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 8 February 1895 – 4 May 1972
  • Types: American (US); English; Jewish; Translator; Writer, Novel
• Alfred Henry Miles
  • Alternative Names: Alfred H. Miles
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 26 February 1848 - 30 October 1929
  • Types: Composer; English; Journalist; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Novel
• Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Alternative Names: Charlotte Mary Yonge
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 August 1823 - 24 May 1901
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Writer for children; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Alternative Names: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894
  • Types: Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Charles Dickens
  • Alternative Names: Charles John Huffam Dickens
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870
  • Types: Journalist; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer, Novel
• James Barrie
  • Alternative Names: James Matthew Barrie; Sir J. M. Barrie; Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937
  • Types: Writer for children; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Jane Dieulafoy
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 29 June 1851 – 25 May 1916
  • Types: Journalist; Military; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Frances Elliot
  • Alternative Names: Frances Dickinson; Frances Minto Elliot
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 March 1820 - 26 October 1898
  • Types: Editor or publisher; English; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Ida von Gräfin Hahn-Hahn
  • Alternative Names: Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 June 1805 – 12 January 1880
  • Types: Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Susanna Moodie
  • Alternative Names: Susanna Strickland
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885
  • Types: Canadian; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Isabella Romer
  • Alternative Names: Isabella Frances Romer
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1798–1852
  • Types: Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Ann Radcliffe
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Radcliffe; Ann Ward Radcliffe
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693
  • Types: French; Writer, Novel
• Pauline Bellisle Fourès
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 15 March 1778 – 18 March 1869
  • Types: Artist, painter; French; Mistress of royalty; Writer, Novel
• Léon Eugène Frapié
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 27 January 1863 - 29 September 1949
  • Types: Author or presenter; French; Writer, Novel
• Caroline Pichler
  • Alternative Names: Karoline Pichler
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 September 1769 – 9 July 1843
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Rosa Caroline Mackworth Prior
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Campbell Praed
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 27 March 1851 - 10 April 1935
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Marie Corelli
  • Alternative Names: Mary Mackay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Mabel Dearmer
  • Alternative Names: Jessie Mabel Prichard White
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 22 March 1872 - 15 July 1915
  • Types: Heroine in war; Medicine, nurse; Writer, Novel
• Anthony Trollope
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 24 April 1815 - 6 December 1882
  • Types: Counterpart, Male; Son of Notable Person; Writer, Novel
• Krupabai Satthianadhan
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Asian, South; Writer, Novel
• Lady Charlotte Bury
  • Alternative Names: Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury; Charlotte Campbell
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 28 January 1775 – 1 April 1861
  • Types: Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Alternative Names: Mary Augusta Arnold; Mary Augusta Ward
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Lucas Malet
  • Alternative Names: Mary Harrison; Mary St Leger Kingsley
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 4 June 1852 - 1931
  • Types: English; Writer, Novel
• Ethel Lilian Voynich
  • Alternative Names: Ethel Lilian Boole; Mrs. Voynich
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 May 1864 - 27 July 1960
  • Types: Irish; Performer, musician; Reformer, political; Writer, Novel
• Miss Elizabeth Robins
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Parks; C.E. Raimond
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 August 1862 – 8 May 1952
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Performer, actress; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Emma D. E. N. Southworth
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: December 26, 1819 – June 30, 1899
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Sally Rochester Ford
  • Alternative Names: Sallie Rochester Ford
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1821 -1910
  • Types: Representative of region; Writer, Novel
• Mary E. Bryan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 18 May 1846 – 15 June 1913
  • Types: Journalist; Writer, Novel
• Gottfried Keller
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 19 July 1819 - 15 July 1890
  • Types: Author or presenter; German; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Guy de Maupassant
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
  • Alternative Names: Jules-Amédée Barbey; Barbey d'Aurevilly
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 2 November 1808 – 23 April 1889
  • Types: Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Charles Egbert Craddock
  • Alternative Names: Mary Noailles Murfree
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 January 1850 – 31 July 1922
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Marshall Saunders
  • Alternative Names: Margaret Marshall Saunders
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 13 May 1861 – 15 February 1947
  • Types: Canadian; Writer for children; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Lilian Bell
  • Alternative Names: Lilian Lida Bell; Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1867–1929
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Bertha Runkle
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1879 – 1958
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 June 1831 – 29 September 1910
  • Types: American (US); Journalist; Writer, Novel
• Augusta Evans Wilson
  • Alternative Names: Augusta Jane Evans
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 May 1835 – 9 May 1909
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• Mary J. Holmes
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel
• François Fénélon
  • Alternative Names: François de la Salignac de la Mothe Fénélon
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 6 August 1651 - 7 January 1715
  • Types: French; Missionary; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mary P. Rogers
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Writer, Novel
• M. A. Tunis
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: Representative of state, current; Writer, Novel
• Catherine Crowe
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Crowe; Catherine Ann Stevens
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 September 1803 - 14 June 1876
  • Types: English; Writer for children; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays
• Anne Manning
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 February 1807 - 14 September 1879
  • Types: English; Single woman, spinster, unmarried; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. Parr
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. Olinthus Lobb; Louisa Parr; Louisa Taylor
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: d. 2 November 1903
  • Types: English; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. McQuoid
  • Alternative Names: Katherine S. Macquoid; Katharine S. Macquoid; Katherine Sarah Thomas
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 January 1824 - 24 June 1917
  • Types: Author or presenter; English; Traveler, travel writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Sarah A. Dorsey
  • Alternative Names: Sarah Anne Dorsey; Sarah Anne Ellis
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 16 February 1829 – 4 July 1879
  • Types: American (US); Representative of state, current; Writer, Novel
• Princess Bibesco
  • Alternative Names: Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 February 1897 – 7 April 1945
  • Types: Society or High Rank; Wife of notable man; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Harriet Parr
  • Alternative Names: Holme Lee
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1828 - 1900
  • Types: Writer for children; Writer, hymns; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Ada Cross
  • Alternative Names: Ada Cambridge; Ada C. Cross; Ada Cambridge Cross
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 November 1844 - 19 July 1926
  • Types: Journalist; Writer; Writer for children; Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Emma Jane Worboise
  • Alternative Names: Emma Jane Guyton
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 20 April 1825 - 25 August 1887
  • Types: Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel
• Jemima Luke
  • Alternative Names: Jemima Thompson Luke; Jemima Thompson
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 August 1813 - 2 February 1906
  • Types: Writer; Writer for children; Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel
• Anne Shepherd
  • Alternative Names: Anne Houlditch; Anne Houlditch Shepherd
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 September 1809 - 7 January 1857
  • Types: Writer; Writer for children; Writer, hymns; Writer, Novel
• Clarissa M. Thompson
  • Alternative Names: Clarissa Minnie Thompson; Clarissa Thompson; Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: fl. 1885
  • Types: American, African; American (US); American (US); Daughter of notable man; Daughter of notable woman; Educator, teacher; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Octavia V. Rodgers Albert
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 24 December 1853 - 1890
  • Types: American, African; Religious sect member, founding; Writer, Novel
• Lucila Gamero Moncada
  • Alternative Names: Lucila Gamero de Medina
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 12 June 1873 - 23 January 1964
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; American, Latin; Medicine, doctor; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• Kathleen O'Meara
  • Alternative Names: Grace Ramsay
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1839 - November 1888
  • Types: Irish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Rosa Mulholland
  • Alternative Names: Lady Gilbert; Ruth Murray
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 1841 - 1921
  • Types: Irish; Writer, Novel
• Jane Barlow
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 17 April 1857 – 20 April 1917
  • Types: Irish; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Katharine Tynan Hinkson
  • Alternative Names: Katherine Tynan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931
  • Types: Irish; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mary Catherine Crowley
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: American (US); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Dorothy West
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 2 June 1907 – 16 August 1998
  • Types: American, African; American (US); Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• María Enriqueta Camarillo
  • Alternative Names: María Enriqueta Camarillo y Roa de Pereyra
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 January 1872 - 1968
  • Types: American, Latin; Educator, teacher; Translator; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry; Writer, Short fiction
• Alice Walker
  • Alternative Names: Alice Malsenior Walker
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: b. 9 February 1944
  • Types: Activist; American, African; American (US); Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Horace Walpole
  • Alternative Names: 4th Earl of Orford; Horatio Walpole; The Honorable Horace Walpole
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 24 September 1717 - 2 March 1797
  • Types: Politician; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel
• Karoline von Günderrode
  • Alternative Names: Tian; Karoline Friederike Louise Maximiliane von Günderrode; Caroline von Günderrode
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 11 February 1780 – 26 July 1806
  • Types: German; Sexual agency, transgression (hetero); Society or High Rank; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Leo Tolstoy
  • Alternative Names: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 9 September 1828 - 20 November 1910
  • Types: Russian; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Short fiction
• August Strindberg
  • Alternative Names: Johan August Strindberg
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 22 January 1849 - 14 May 1912
  • Types: Swedish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Katherine D. Tillman
  • Alternative Names: Kate D. Chapman Tillman; Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman; Katherine Davis Tillman
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 February 1870 - 1922
  • Types: American, African; American (US); Member of committee or club; Philanthropist; Speaker, Lecturer, Public Reader; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Plays; Writer, Poetry
• Mary Johnston
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 21 November 1870 - 9 May 1936
  • Types: Activist, Women's Rights; American (US); Suffragette; Writer, Novel
• Annie Chambers Ketchum
  • Alternative Names: Annelizah Chambers; Sister Amabilis
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 8 November 1824 - 27 November 1904
  • Types: American (US); Editor or publisher; Educational founder, schoolmistress; Educator, teacher; Representative of region; Writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mrs. Annie Creight Lloyd
  • Alternative Names: Annie P. Creight
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: American (US); Representative of region; Writer; Writer, Novel
• Mrs. M. Louise Crossley
  • Alternative Names: Mrs. M. Louise Rogers
  • Gender: Female
  • Types: American (US); Representative of region; Writer; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Fanny Murdaugh Downing
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 19 October 1831 - 6 May 1894
  • Types: American (US); Representative of region; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Honoré de Balzac
  • Alternative Names: Honoré Balzac
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850
  • Types: French; Writer, Novel
• Théophile Gautier
  • Alternative Names: Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872
  • Types: French; Journalist; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Victor Hugo
  • Alternative Names: Victor Marie Hugo
  • Gender: Male
  • Life Dates: 26 February 1802 - 22 May 1885
  • Types: French; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Alternative Names: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE; Ruth Prawer
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 7 May 1927 - 3 April 2013
  • Types: American (US); Expatriated, exiled person; German; Writer; Writer, Novel
• Prabhjot Kaur
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 6 July 1924 - 24 November 2016
  • Types: Asian, South; Politician; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Mahadevi Varma
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 March 1907 - 11 September 1987
  • Types: Asian, South; Writer; Writer, Novel; Writer, Poetry
• Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
  • Gender: Female
  • Life Dates: 26 October 1864 – 24 July 1916
  • Types: Heroine in war; Scottish; Writer, Nonfiction; Writer, Novel