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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (May 23, 1859 – August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 – June 14, 1948) was an American writer. [1] Many of her novels are set in her home state of California.Her bestselling novel Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name.
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet, author, and publisher during the early and mid 19th century.
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman and first Black person in general to receive a pilot's license. Because of gender and racial discrimination, she learned French and went to ...
"Progress of the American Woman" from the North American Review, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1900) [78] "Votes for Women", Mark Twain (1901) [79] Woman, Kate Austin (1901) [80] "Declaration of Principles", by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904) [81] The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905) Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1909 ...
Olsen's non-fiction volume, titled Silences, was an analysis of authors' silent periods in literature, including writer's blocks, unpublished work, and the problems that working-class writers, and women in particular, have in finding the time to concentrate on their art, and the second part of the book was a study of the work of Davis.
Beatrice Campbell, "Writer's Room With a View," The Guardian, 21 February 1989, image 35 (assembly of women writers from the USSR, the United States, and France" The Persephone Book of Short Stories," Persephone Books Ltd. 2012, ISBN 978-1903-155-905 is a collection of short stories written by women 1909-1986.
Pages in category "American women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,146 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .