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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 .
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 ...
Luminarium - an online anthology of English literature; A Time-Line of English Poetry from Old English to Post Modern; Representative Poetry Online Includes an index of 4,079 English poems by 618 poets, with bibliographies and literary criticism. Romantic Circles - a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature ...
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] A Serious Proposal, Part II, Mary Astell (1697) The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1697) [16]
[3] [5] [6] Three are poems [3] [5] [6] and three are dictionaries, [2] [4] [7] but they all list, and comment on, literary women and their accomplishments. NB: In the columns, readers can find subjects' names or pseudonyms as presented in the text. A number in front of a name indicates the relative position of that name in the text.
The poets represented in Poems by Eminent Ladies are diverse in terms of literary reputation and degree of critical and commercial success, literary school or style, and social, economic, and cultural background. Together, they help the editors make a case for including women writers in the national literary tradition: "The Ladies, whose pieces ...
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 ...
This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist . Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement.