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As the focus of this chart is British literary figures, broadly defined, two of the texts have been treated selectively because of their wider range. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] Three of these texts are collective biographies, [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 7 ] while three of them are more pointed political interventions in contemporary debates about women's roles.
Pages in category "18th-century English women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 233 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library, where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century. Mezzotint, printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett ...
Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate; Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist; Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author; Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter; Susanna Blamire (1747–1794 ...
Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller (1845) [41] Poganka (The Heathen Woman), by Narcyza Żmichowska (1846) [42] Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847) [43] Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter, women's rights and abolitionist paper founded by Jane Swisshelm [44]
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature, with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance , Baroque and Modern literature, while Medieval literature is resolved by century.
This table lists women playwrights who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, before the Victorian era, with a brief indication of productivity or other significant information. The entries may be reordered to browse by name or date.