Jane Austen

Jane Austen

female, deceased (1817)
Christian Austen family English women writer Women novelist writer persuasion
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works include "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice",... More
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
death by drowning Mrs. Dalloway suicide by drowning Women novelist stephen English women writer
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c... More
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

female, deceased (1797)
Feminist death by sepsis historian Women travel writer English women writer feminist philosopher … Women novelist
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels,... More
Carol Shields

Carol Shields

female, deceased (2003)
Governor General's Award winning fiction writer Canadian women writer 1993 Governor General's Awards The Stone Diaries Women novelist Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Carol Ann Shields ,BA, MA, CC, OM, D.Litt., LL.D, FRSC (June 2, 1935 - July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for... More
George Eliot

George Eliot

female, deceased (1880)
Mary Ann Evans buried at Highgate Cemetery English women writer zionist Women novelist pen name
Mary Ann Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her... More
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

female, deceased (1896)
Beecher family Women novelist American women writer American congregational church Congregationalist
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery;... More
Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

female, deceased (1855)
Yorkshirewoman English women writer Women novelist From West Yorkshire Women poet writer
Charlotte Brontë (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become en... More
Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

female, deceased (1949)
American historical novelist American road accident victim American women writer Pedestrian road accident victim Women novelist author
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, "Gone with the Wind,"... More
Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve

female, 62 years old (Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States)
Women novelist Tufts University Oprah's Book Club Nairobi, Kenya American Short story writer
Anita Shreve (b. 1946) is an award winning American writer.
Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

female, deceased (1849)
Anglican Women novelist Irish women writer Women short story writer From Oxfordshire Anglo-irish
Maria Edgeworth (January 1, 1767-May 22, 1849) was an Anglo-Irish novelist. Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, the second... More