- female, deceased (1941)
- Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
- female, deceased (1797)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels,...
- female, deceased (1689)
- Aphra Behn (July 10, 1640 - April 16, 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female...
- female, 78 years old
- Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw is a Canadian short-story writer who is widely considered one of the world's premier fiction writers. Munro is a t...
- female, 70 years old
- Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most...
- female, deceased (1603)
- Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, Queen of France (in name only), and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558...
- female, deceased (1833)
- Hannah More (February 2, 1745 - September 7, 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three...
- female, deceased (1784)
- Phillis Wheatley was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book "Poems on Various Subjects" was...
- female, deceased (1672)
- Anne Bradstreet was the first American female writer, and the first American female poet to have her works published.
- female, deceased (1430)
- Christine de Pizan (1364–1430) was a writer and analyst of the medieval era who strongly challenged the clerical misogyny and stereotypes that we...
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