19th-Century (and earlier) Women Writers



Public domain photo of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1896


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Women Novelists & Short Story Writers

Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888)

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835-1915). At the Literary Encyclopedia

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)

Burney, Frances 1752-1840

Chopin, Kate (1850-1904)

Craik, Dinah (1826-1887). At the Literary Encyclopedia

Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849). At the Literary Encyclopedia

Eliot, George (1819-1880)

Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)

Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909). The Country of the Pointed Firs 1896. At Cengage

Radcliffe, Anne. (1764-1823). At the Literary Encyclopedia

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (1789-1867). At the Literary Encyclopedia

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

Webster, Augusta (1837-1894)


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