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Explore Women's Role in Literary History? (Part 1: A-F)

A guide by Themis-Athena (from somewhere between California and Germany)
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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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