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Je ne sçai quoi: or, A collection of letters, odes, &c., Never before published. By a Lady, Anne B. Poyntz (1768/1769) [19] Letters on Women's Rights, Abigail and John Adams (1776) [20] Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms, Judith Sargent Murray (1784) [21]
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
Chawton House Library: Women's Novels; Collective 18th-century biographies of literary women; Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology; Feminist literary criticism; Feminist science fiction; Feminist theory; Gender in science fiction; List of biographical dictionaries of female writers; List of early-modern British women novelists
Revolution From Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem (1992) "Talking Our Way In", Rachel Adler (1992) [ 410 ] The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Opposite Sex, or the Inferior Sex , Carol Tavris (1992)
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
The author has won several awards in the past, including the Orange Prize for Fiction, and her books have been translated into more than 50 languages. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Viking)
Mothers of the Novel is divided into three parts. Part I treats a series of seventeenth-century women writers, only some of whom would have been familiar to most readers in 1986: Aphra Behn (1640–1689), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), Anne Clifford (1590–1676), Anne Fanshawe (1625–1680), Eliza Haywood (1693–1756), [1] Lucy Hutchinson (1618–1681), Delarivière Manley (1663 –1724 ...
From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.