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Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, [1] the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers, [2] while writers and critics have rejected its inherent sexism. [3]
A. A Story of Oki Islands; Hannah Abbott; Vanessa Abrams; Kay Adams-Corleone; Irene Adler; Aunt Agatha; Akivasha; Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames
Apocalyptic literature – details the authors' visions of the end times as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger. [18] Bildungsroman – "coming of age" story. The German word "Bildung" can mean both "education" and "self-development." Crime fiction. Campus murder mystery; Historical fiction. Biographical novel; Historical romance [19]
Jane West (1758–1852), English novelist, poet, playwright and tractarian; Mary Whateley (1738–1825), English poet and playwright; Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first African-American to publish a book of poetry; Ulrika Widström (1764–1841), Swedish poet and translator; Helen Maria Williams (1762–1827), English novelist and poet
Le Droit des femmes, meaning Women's Rights (1869 to 1891) A Doll's House Repaired, Eleanor Marx Aveling (1891) [106] The Woman's Movement in the South, A.P. Mayo (1891) [107] "Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States" (1891) [108] A Voice from the South, Anna Julia Cooper (1892)
P.R., "Woman Writers of To-day," The Age, Melbourne, 22 September 1945, image 9; 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 ...
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."
Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) is the first major English woman novelist, while Aphra Behn is an early female dramatist. Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded between 1901 and 2020 to 117 individuals: 101 men and 16 women. Selma Lagerlöf (1858 – 1940) was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she