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  2. Atukuri Molla - Wikipedia

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    Molla is the second female Telugu poet of note, after Tallapaka Timmakka, wife of Tallapaka Annamayya ("Annamacharya"). She translated the Sanskrit Ramayana into Telugu. [1] Her father Atukuri Kesanna was a potter of Gopavaram, a village in Gopavaram Mandal near Badvel town, fifty miles north of Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh state.

  3. Janeite - Wikipedia

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    Jane Austen teapot cookies. The term Janeite has been both embraced by devotees of the works of Jane Austen and used as a term of opprobrium. According to Austen scholar Claudia Johnson Janeitism is "the self-consciously idolatrous enthusiasm for 'Jane' and every detail relative to her".

  4. Thiasus - Wikipedia

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    The most significant members of the thiasus were the human female devotees, the maenads, who gradually replaced immortal nymphs. In Greek vase-paintings or bas-reliefs , lone female figures can be recognized as belonging to the thiasus by their brandishing the thyrsos , the distinctive staff or rod of the devotee.

  5. Akka Mahadevi - Wikipedia

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    Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature [1] and a prominent member of the Lingayatism founded in the 12th century. [2] Her 430 vachanas (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her known contributions to Kannada literature. [3]

  6. Karaikkal Ammaiyar - Wikipedia

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    Karaikal Ammaiyar (born Punītavatī), meaning "The Revered Mother of Karaikal", is one of the three women amongst the 63 Nayanmars and one of the greatest figures of early Tamil literature. She was born in Karaikal, South India, and probably lived during the 5th century AD. [1] She was a devotee of Shiva. [2] [3]

  7. Category:Literature by women - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Literature. It includes literature that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. The main article for this category is Women's writing (literary category) .

  8. Women's writing (literary category) - Wikipedia

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    The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."

  9. Women's fiction - Wikipedia

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    Women's fiction is an umbrella term for women-centered books that focus on women's life experience that are marketed to female readers, and includes many mainstream novels or women's rights books. It is distinct from women's writing, which refers to literature written by (rather than promoted to) women. There exists no comparable label in ...