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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
Rosemary Daniell (born 1935), American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep south; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry; Diane Di Prima (1934–2020), American poet; Zoraida Díaz (1881–1948), Panamanian poet, educator, and feminist
Her poetry attested to different movements and issues that were a reality for many other African-American women. Some of the notable poems that provide these issues include, "Fulfillment" [ 8 ] which includes pieces that discuss women and society, "Bottled" which shows issues of African-Americans in the English world, and many other famous ...
Johnston's poetry was considered by some as of no lasting value, but in 1991 her poem written in dialect "The Last Sark" was published in An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets. In 1998 Gustav Klaus's biography "Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-class Poetry in Victorian Scotland" was published. [ 4 ]
Eva Best (1851–1925) Lorraine Bethel; Helen Bevington (1906–2001) Frank Bidart (born 1939) Ambrose Bierce (1842–c. 1913) Linda Bierds (born 1945) David Biespiel (born 1964) Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird (1826–1907) Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) John Peale Bishop (1892–1944) Morris Bishop (1893–1973) Sherwin Bitsui (born 1975) Baxter ...
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance.
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A prodigy as a child, Wheatley was the first black person to publish a book of poems in the American colony, and though her poems are sometimes thought of as expressing "meek submission," she is also what Camille Dungy describes as "a foremother," and a role model for black women poets as "part of the fabric" of American poetry. [21]