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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]
Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589), Korean female poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty; Nicoletta Pasquale (fl. 1540), Sicilian Italian poet; Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), among first Englishwomen to gain a literary reputation; Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554), Italian poet; Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – post–1570), Portuguese court poet and ...
This is a list of notable women ... 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature; Elli Alexiou (c. 1894–1986, Greece/Hungary), fiction ... pen name of Roxanne Longstreet ...
List of female poets; List of female rhetoricians; List of feminist literature; List of women anthologists; List of women cookbook writers; List of women electronic writers; List of women hymn writers; List of women sportswriters; Lists of women writers by nationality; Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen; Norton ...
Women who wrote works on religion. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Religious writers . It includes religious writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Rúhíyyih Khanum and a mix of male and female Hands of the Cause formed an interim leadership of the religion for six years prior to the formation of the Universal House of Justice. Later prominent women include Patricia Locke , Jaqueline Left Hand Bull Delahunt , Layli Miller-Muro , and Dr. Susan Maneck , who herself wrote books documenting ...
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 ...
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), Swedish writer, first female winner of Nobel Prize for Literature; Luca Landucci (1436–1516), Florentine Italian apothecary; Gladys Langford (1890–1972), London wartime schoolteacher; Rutka Laskier (1929–1943), Polish Holocaust chronicler; Nella Last (1889–1968), English housewife