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Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English
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Contemporary American women fiction writers : an A-to-Z guide
2421:. Revised and expanded edition. Rutgers University Press, 1998. (
422:
2659:
Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century British Women Poets
1709:
Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1660–1823
1018:. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press; Pasadena CA: Salem Press, 1997.
2676:
A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660–1800
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A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580–1720
2507:
2705:
Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: an encyclopedia
1561:/Barbara Michaels, Ellis Peters/Jolyon Carr/John Redfern/
450:. Kenny's Bookshop, 1996. Intended to complement Weekes
184:
List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
1208:
Great Women Mystery Writers: classic to contemporary
807:Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900–1950
448:Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Poets
163:6 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
161:Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion.
2669:British Women Writers: a critical reference guide
2400:The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
147:British Women Fiction Writers of the 19th Century
72:Australian Women Writers: a bibliographical guide
2786:
1697:- 2nd ed. Westport, Conn.:Greenwood Press, 2007
112:The Feminist Companion to Literature in English
1964:Dictionary of Munster Women Writers 1800–2000
1021:Hudock, Amy E. & Rodier, Katharine, eds.
955:María Cristina Mena (María Cristina Chambers)
159:Bomariot, Jessica and Jeffrey W. Hunter, ed.
53:There are a large and ever growing number of
2712:An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers
2698:An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers
1686:Knight, Denise D., and Emmanuel S. Nelson.
1453:/Anne Blaisdell/Dell Shannon/Lesley Egan,
822:. Vol. v. 221. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000.
464:. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.
194:. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.
190:Champion, Laurie and Austin, Rhonda, eds.
173:The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
2471:. Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991.
2443:The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers
1716:Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
1690:. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
1673:/Anne Burton/Mary Challis/Margaret Leek,
501:75 entries, by over 35 contributors, on:
467:includes brief biographies of 473 writers
2419:An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers
114:. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (
95:2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
2710:Reprints, with photos, selections from
1023:American Women Prose Writers: 1820–1870
814:American Women Prose Writers, 1870–1920
2787:
917:(Mrs. Burton Harrison) / Kathy Ryder,
567:Mary (Catherine Gunning Maguire) Colum
247:Ellen Douglas (Josephine Ayres Haxton)
2685:450 entries, 68 of which are American
865:(Gail Hamilton) / Annmarie Pinarski,
2749:
2403:. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
1728:American Women Prose Writers to 1820
489:Irish Women Writers: an A-to-Z guide
17:
2745:Women's writing (literary category)
2727:Research Guide: Irish Women Writers
931:Mrs. A. E. Johnson (Amelia Johnson)
64:
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2795:Biographical dictionaries of women
1955:Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood
1883:Maria van Cortlandt van Rensselaer
1589:/Daphne Saunders/Michael Venning,
1114:Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell
873:(Sui Sin Far) / Nicole Tonkovich,
14:
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2678:. Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (
1711:. Indiana University Press, 1996.
877:(Onoto Watanna) / Maureen Honey,
479:. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
2761:This literature-related list is
2753:
2467:Showalter, Elaine, et al., eds.
2445:. Oxford University Press, 1993.
2387:Richardson, Sarah, et al., eds.
1973:. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
1730:. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.
819:Dictionary of Literary Biography
319:Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston
21:
1257:/Mary Ann Ashe/China Thompson,
623:Mary E. (Mary Blundell) Frances
1976:Pollack, Sandra, et al., eds.
1966:. Cork University Press, 2005.
1919:Caroline Matilda Warren Thayer
1693:Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley.
110:Blain, Virginia, et al., eds.
1:
2703:Wilson, Katharina M., et al.
2696:Wilson, Katherina M., et al.
2469:Modern American Women Writers
1821:, Anne Hart, Elizabeth Hart,
1726:Mulford, Carla, et al., eds.
1128:, Sara Payson Willis Parton (
857:/ Susanne George Bloomfield,
105:Contemporary Women Dramatists
88:. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
2645:Notable Black American Women
2536:Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
1633:/Alice Tilton/Freeman Dana,
1197:. Detroit: St. James, 1996.
911:Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
839:Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
805:Hammill, Faye, et al., eds.
487:Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed.
103:Berney, K. A., et al., eds.
84:Bell, Maureen, et al., eds.
7:
2815:English-language literature
2740:List of female rhetoricians
2733:
1714:Miller, Jane Eldridge, ed.
1695:Great Women Mystery Writers
971:María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
809:. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
10:
2841:
2671:. London: Routledge, 1989.
2643:Smith, Jessie Carney, ed.
2357:Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera
1835:Susan Mansfield Huntington
1003:Constance Fenimore Woolson
945:/ Jean Carwile Masteller,
913:/ Maggie Montesinos Sale,
607:Ellen Mary Patrick Downing
2805:Gender studies literature
2657:Thesing, William B., ed.
2650:Thesing, William B., ed.
2452:. St. James Press, 1998.
1980:. Greenwood Press, 1993.
1210:. Greenwood Press, 1994.
979:Harriet Prescott Spofford
961:/ Alanna Kathleen Brown,
959:Mourning Dove (Humishuma)
639:Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
491:. Greenwood Press, 2006.
271:Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
130:. Greenwood Press, 2000.
91:Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn.
55:biographical dictionaries
2825:Lists of British writers
2520:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2450:Contemporary women poets
2448:Shelton, Pamela L., ed.
2438:. Greenwood Press, 1994.
2201:Andrea Freud Loewenstein
1947:Margaret Tyndal Winthrop
1206:Klein, Kathleen G., ed.
1193:Kester-Shelton, Pamela.
1146:Catharine Maria Sedgwick
1086:Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
953:/ Shirley Wilson Logan,
895:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
175:. Prentice Hall, 1992. (
107:. St. James Press, 1994.
2568:Edna St. Vincent Millay
2516:Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
2177:Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
2105:(Mary) Terri De la Peña
1799:Winifred Marshall Gales
1315:Dorothy Salisbury Davis
1180:(Elizabeth Wetherell),
1150:Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1138:Margaret Junkin Preston
965:/ Mary Bortnyk Rigsby,
963:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
951:Victoria Earle Matthews
941:/ Shirley Marchalonis,
915:Constance Cary Harrison
891:Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
881:/ Susan Neal Mayberry,
869:/ Katharine Gillespie,
812:Harris, Sharon M., ed.
351:Colleen Johnson McElroy
154:Caribbean Women Writers
2820:Lists of women writers
2707:. Garland Pub., 1997.
2441:Shattock, Joanne, ed.
2391:. Working Press, 1996.
2333:Patricia Roth Schwartz
1803:Grace Growden Galloway
1787:Sarah Pierpont Edwards
1704:New York: Ungar, 1979.
1251:Mary Elizabeth Braddon
1170:Celia Laighton Thaxter
1154:E. D. E. N. Southworth
1001:/ Rosalind G. Benjet,
977:/ Venetria K. Patton,
957:/ E. Thomson Shields,
921:/ Barbara J. McGuire,
879:Sarah Barnwell Elliott
861:/ Jennifer A. Kohout,
731:Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
379:Grace (Goodside) Paley
156:. Chelsea House, 1997.
149:. Chelsea House, 1998.
2652:Victorian Women Poets
2604:Katherine Anne Porter
2434:Shapiro, Ann R., ed.
2413:Schlueter, Paul, and
2133:Sally Miller Gearhart
2101:Jacqueline de Angelis
1939:Eliza Yonge Wilkinson
1915:Tabitha Gilman Tenney
1875:Martha Laurens Ramsay
1863:Judith Sargent Murray
1795:Hannah Webster Foster
1775:Hannah Mather Crocker
1595:Mary Roberts Rinehart
1166:Harriet Beecher Stowe
1126:Elizabeth Oakes Smith
1106:Susan Shelby Magoffin
1050:Rebecca Harding Davis
1042:Susan Fenimore Cooper
989:/ Joycelyn K. Moody,
937:/ Barbara McCaskill,
929:/ Melanie Kisthardt,
843:Lillie Devereux Blake
635:Augusta, Lady Gregory
419:Elizabeth Ann Tallent
2767:adding missing items
2552:Maxine Hong Kingston
2293:Mariana Romo-Carmona
2125:Katherine V. Forrest
2113:Rachel Guido DeVries
2041:Blanche McCrary Boyd
1879:Martha Meredith Read
1871:Eliza Lucas Pinckney
1859:Martha Daniell Logan
1855:Deborah Norris Logan
1851:Anne Home Livingston
1755:Martha Moore Ballard
1751:Abigail Abbot Bailey
1707:Mann, David, et al.
1631:Phoebe Atwood Taylor
1541:, Orania Papazoglou/
1469:/Elizabeth Chaplin,
1455:Marie Belloc Lowndes
1447:Elizabeth Lemarchand
1383:Anna Katharine Green
1379:Lesley Grant-Adamson
1339:Katherine V. Forrest
1259:Lilian Jackson Braun
1142:Nancy Gardner Prince
1025:. Gale Group, 2001.
1014:Horwitz, Barbara J.
991:Ida B. Wells-Barnett
985:/ Anne K. Phillips,
983:Gene Stratton-Porter
925:/ Kristin Bourdeau,
903:Anna Katharine Green
885:/ Deborah M. Evans,
855:Kate McPhelim Cleary
243:J. California Cooper
35:adding missing items
2800:Books about writers
2690:Weekes, Ann Owens.
2661:. Gale Group, 2001.
2654:. Gale Group, 1999.
2345:Sheila Ortiz Taylor
2161:Rosa (Cuthbert) Guy
1962:O'Toole, Tina, ed.
1903:Elizabeth Ann Seton
1861:, Margaret Morris,
1847:Sarah Kemble Knight
1811:Anne MacVicar Grant
1767:Esther Edwards Burr
1747:Elizabeth Ashbridge
1718:. Routledge, 2001.
1451:Elizabeth Linington
1223:Charlotte Armstrong
1118:Maria Jane McIntosh
1116:(Sherwood Bonner),
1074:Charlotte L. Forten
1054:Sarah Morgan Dawson
1038:Mary Boykin Chesnut
993:/ Stephanie Athey,
947:Queen Lili'uokalani
909:/ Karen Dandurand,
897:/ Robin Miskolcze,
893:/ Marylynne Diggs,
889:/ Victoria Lamont,
837:/ Linda K. Karell,
779:Somerville and Ross
735:Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
707:Maire Mhac an tSaoi
615:Ruth Dudley Edwards
551:Mary Rose Callaghan
452:Unveiling Treasures
407:Leslie Marmon Silko
391:Jayne Anne Phillips
347:Elizabeth McCracken
291:Josephine Humphreys
152:Bloom, Harold, ed.
145:Bloom, Harold, ed.
2765:; you can help by
2544:Zora Neale Hurston
2532:Elizabeth Hardwick
2381:Jacqueline Woodson
2337:Sandra Scoppettone
2273:Minnie Bruce Pratt
2217:Vicki P. McConnell
2193:Jacqueline Lapidus
2169:Eloise Klein Healy
2033:Sdiane Adams Bogus
1997:Gloria E. Anzaldúa
1969:Partow, Elaine T.
1943:Anna Green Winslow
1911:Sarah Pogson Smith
1759:Ann Eliza Bleecker
1655:Patricia Wentworth
1407:Patricia Highsmith
1369:/Ainslie Skinner,
1349:/Frances Hegarty,
1319:Doris Miles Disney
1283:Mary Higgins Clark
1281:/Mary Westmacott,
1265:/Jennie Melville,
1253:/Babington White,
1102:Sarah Petigru King
1082:Sarah Moore Grimké
1066:Augusta Jane Evans
1005:/ Sharon L. Dean,
999:Martha Wolfenstein
995:Frances E. Willard
981:/ Jennifer Putzi,
973:/ José F. Aranda,
949:/ Lydia Kualapai,
935:Emma Dunham Kelley
901:/ Priscilla Wald,
887:Mary Hallock Foote
883:Annie Adams Fields
863:Mary Abigail Dodge
833:/ Betty Bergland,
829:/ Phoebe Jackson,
523:Caroline Blackwood
399:Marilynne Robinson
315:Barbara Kingsolver
171:Buck, Claire, ed.
126:Bloom, Abigail B.
33:; you can help by
2783:
2782:
2729:at Boston College
2674:Todd, Janet, ed.
2588:Flannery O'Connor
2584:Joyce Carol Oates
2548:Sarah Orne Jewett
2458:978-1-55862-356-9
2265:Karen Lee Osborne
2129:Suzanne Gardinier
2117:Sarah Anne Dreher
2009:Judith Barrington
1931:Mercy Otis Warren
1923:Mary Palmer Tyler
1823:Jane Fenn Hoskens
1807:Sarah Prince Gill
1779:Elizabeth Drinker
1599:Dorothy L. Sayers
1535:Lillian O'Donnell
1505:/Malcolm Torrie,
1493:, Annette Meyers/
1471:Charlotte MacLeod
1411:Dorothy B. Hughes
1299:Patricia Cornwell
1263:Gwendoline Butler
1255:Christianna Brand
1219:Margery Allingham
1110:Mary Peabody Mann
1098:Elizabeth Keckley
1030:Louisa May Alcott
987:Suzie King Taylor
943:Laura Jean Libbey
927:Sarah Orne Jewett
905:/ Marie T. Farr,
871:Edith Maude Eaton
867:Alice Morse Earle
859:Anna Julia Cooper
847:S. Alice Callahan
845:/ Grace Farrell,
747:Mairead Ni Ghrada
739:Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
715:Susan L. Mitchell
651:Jennifer Johnston
575:Geraldine Cummins
543:Elizabeth Brennan
497:978-0-313-32883-1
367:Joyce Carol Oates
327:Ursula K. Le Guin
207:Toni Cade Bambara
136:978-0-313-30439-2
80:978-0-86358-148-9
74:. Pandora, 1988.
70:Adelaide, Debra.
51:
50:
2832:
2778:
2775:
2757:
2756:
2750:
2680:Internet Archive
2564:Carson McCullers
2488:Gwendolyn Brooks
2480:Elizabeth Bishop
2423:Internet Archive
2289:Aleida Rodriguez
2277:Margaret Randall
2025:Julie Blackwomon
1989:Paula Gunn Allen
1819:Elizabeth Hanson
1815:Sarah Ewing Hall
1763:Bathsheba Bowers
1700:Mainiero, Lina,
1637:/Gordon Daviot,
1559:Elizabeth Peters
1517:/Felicity Shaw,
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1365:/Doris Shannon,
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