Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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...
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

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,...
Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn

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...
Alice Munro

Alice Munro

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...
Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

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...
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I of England

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...
Hannah More

Hannah More

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...
Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley

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...
Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

female, deceased (1672)
Anne Bradstreet was the first American female writer, and the first American female poet to have her works published.
Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan

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...