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Explore Women's Role in Literary History? (Part 1: A-F) |
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A guide by Themis-Athena (from somewhere between California and Germany)
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| The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova | Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Library of America) | The House of the Spirits |
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~~~~~ WORK IN PROGRSS!! ~~~~~ Female penmanship is frequently associated with the move towards women's social and political empowerment; but from Sappho, Sheherazade and the great mystics and poets of medieval Europe, like Hildegard of Bingen and Marie de France, to Christine de Pizan (the first woman to earn her living by her pen), as well as the 19th century pioneers on whose works we still draw today, the great "queens of crime," and modern best-selling novelists and outspoken proponents of Women's Lib like Isabel Allende, Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates, women have always found ways to play a vocal (and vital) role in society, whatever the limitations they had to overcome. Here's a glimpse at some of the "fair sex"'s contributions to the world's literary heritage: Anna Akhmatova The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova  Louisa May Alcott National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1996) Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Library of America) Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits Margery Allingham Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mysteries) Julia Alvarez In the Time of the Butterflies Maya Angelou National Medal of Arts 2000 National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1998) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (Harvard paperbacks) Elizabeth von Arnim The ENCHANTED APRIL: THE ENCHANTED APRIL Mary Astell A Serious Proposal to the Ladies: Parts I and II (Broadview Literary Texts) Thea Astley Slow Natives Margaret Atwood Booker Prize 2000 for The Blind Assassin: A Novel L.A. Times Book Prize 1986 (Fiction) for "The Handmaid's Tale" Jane Austen The Complete Novels of Jane Austen (Special Editions) Santa Teresa de Avila Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila (Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila ) Vol.2 Ingeborg Bachmann Georg-Büchner-Preis 1964 Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann (German Edition) Beryl Bainbridge Dame of the British Empire 2000 An Awfully Big Adventure (Bainbridge, Beryl) Djuna Barnes Nightwood Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese Vicki Baum Grand Hotel Simone de Beauvoir Prix Goncourt 1954 for "Les Mandarins" ("The Mandarins") Jerusalem Prize 1975 Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1978 The Second Sex Harriet Beecher Stowe National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1986) Harriet Beecher Stowe : Three Novels : Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks (Library of America) Aphra Behn Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics) Hildegard of Bingen Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen Anne Bradstreet The Works of Anne Bradstreet (The John Harvard Library) Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë Selected Works of the Bronte Sisters (Wordsworth Special Editions) Pearl S. Buck Nobel Prize (Literature) 1938 Pulitzer Prize 1932 (Novel) for The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club) O. Henry Awards 1933 (Second Prize) for "The Frill" National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1973) A.S. Byatt Dame of the British Empire 1999 CBE 1990 Booker Prize 1990 and Irish Times International Fiction Prize 1990 for Possession: A Romance Willa Cather Pulitzer Prize 1923 (Novel) for "One of Ours" National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1988) Willa Cather : Early Novels and Stories : The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the Song of the Lark, My Antonia, One of Ours (Library of America) Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) Andrée Chedid The Return to Beirut Kate Chopin Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories: At Fault / Bayou Folk / A Night in Acadie / The Awakening / Uncollected Stories (Library of America) Agatha Christie Dame Commander of the British Empire 1971 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award 1955 Mystery Writers of America Award 1955 (Best Play) for "Witness for the Prosecution" Anthony Award 2000 (Best Writer of the Century) Anthony Award 2000 (Best Series of the Century) for the Hercule Poirot Novels Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street Colette Member of the French Legion of Honor Cheri and the Last of Cheri Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Obras completas de sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Serie de literatura colonial) (Spanish Edition) Alexandra David-Neel My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City Grazia Deledda After the Divorce (European Classics) Emily Dickinson National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1973) The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Isak Dinesen Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass Emma Donoghue Slammerkin Daphne Du Maurier Dame of the British Empire Three Great Novels: Rebecca / The Frenchman's Creek / Jamaica Inn Marguerite Duras Prix Goncourt 1984 for "L'Amant" ("The Lover") Austrian State Prize for European Literature 1989 The Lover George Eliot Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) Queen Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I: Collected Works Louise Erdrich L.A. Times Book Prize 1985 (Fiction) for Love Medicine: A Novel (P.S.) O. Henry Awards 1987 (First Prize) for "Fleur" Jessie Redmon Fauset Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Edna Ferber Pulitzer Prize 1925 (Novel) for "So Big" Edna Ferber: Five Complete Novels Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower (Everyman's Library) Marie de France The Lais of Marie de France (Penguin Classics) Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Margaret Fuller National Women's Hall of Fame (inducted 1995) The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller (American Women Writers Series)
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