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Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 461 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Feminead. Or, female genius. A poem. London: M. Cooper; Hays, Mary (1803). Female Biography, or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of All Ages and Countries. London: R. Phillips. Polwhele, Richard (1798). The Unsex'd Females: a poem, addressed to the author of the Pursuits of Literature. London: Cadell and Davies
This was a time of abundance for black female writers, who received recognition like never before. They traveled for lecturing, reading and even made recordings of their work. [14] The only black female writer to receive prominent recognition in the twentieth century is Zora Neale Hurston. This was mostly because she was considered an "oddball ...
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; List of early-modern British women ...
A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694) An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady, Judith Drake (1697) [15]
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights; Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist; Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet; Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry; George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
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."
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) .