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Agnes Bulmer (31 August 1775 – 20 August 1836) was an English poet. Her work Messiah's Kingdom is thought to be the longest epic poem ever written by a woman, and took over nine years to complete.
American literary publisher (The Paris Review) and patron (Drue Heinz Literature Prize) [89] Clare Hollingworth: 1911–2017: 105: British journalist, first correspondent to report on World War II [90] Joan Hollobon: 1920–2024: 104: Welsh-born Canadian writer and journalist [91] Edith Iglauer: 1917–2019: 101: American writer [92] William ...
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive) entries for over 2700 women writing in English (in various national traditions) Bloom, Abigail B. Nineteenth-century British Women Writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-30439-2
List of 18th-century British children's literature titles; List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of Australian crime-related books and media; List of anonymously published works; List of autobiographies; Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature
It's worth noting that while this theme of female silence is prevalent throughout the written fairy tales published in Germany and enduring in America today, this trend wasn't always the norm: Charles Perrault's French renditions of these stories place greater value on beautiful women who are also articulate.
[5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [ 11 ]