Literary Ladies Guide

Inspiration for Readers and Writers from Classic Women Authors

  • Louisa May Alcott

    Louisa May Alcott

  • Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou

  • Jane Austen

    Jane Austen

  • Enid Bagnold on persistence

    Enid Bagnold

  • Djuna Barnes

    Djuna Barnes

  • Aphra Behn

  • Gwendolyn B. Bennett

    Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  • Anne Bradstreet, colonial poet

    Anne Bradstreet

  • Anne Bronte

    Anne Brontë

  • Charlotte Brontë

    Charlotte Brontë

  • Emily Bronte

    Emily Brontë

  • Gwendolyn Brooks

    Gwendolyn Brooks

  • Margaret Wise Brown

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • pearl buck

    Pearl S. Buck

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Octavia Butler

    Octavia Butler

  • Willa Cather

    Willa Cather

  • Lydia Maria Child

    Lydia Maria Child

  • Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin

  • agatha christie

    Agatha Christie

  • Colette (french author)

    Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)

  • Simone de Beauvoir

    Simone de Beauvoir

  • Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson

  • Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)

    Isak Dinesen

  • Mary Mapes Dodge

    Mary Mapes Dodge

  • Daphne Du Maurier by Dorothy Wilding

    Daphne du Maurier

  • George Eliot

    George Eliot

  • Eleanor Estes

    Eleanor Estes

  • Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Jessie Redmon Fauset

  • Edna Ferber

    Edna Ferber

  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

    Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  • Louise Fitzhugh

    Louise Fitzhugh

  • Miles Franklin

    Miles Franklin

  • Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Martha Gellhorn photo by East News

    Martha Gellhorn

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Rumer Godden

    Rumer Godden

  • Radclyffe Hall

    Radclyffe Hall

  • Lorraine Hansberry

    Lorraine Hansberry

  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

    Frances Watkins Harper

  • Lillian Hellman

    Lillian Hellman

  • Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith

  • Laura Z. Hobson

    Laura Z. Hobson

  • Fannie Hurst

    Fannie Hurst

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    Zora Neale Hurston

  • Shirley Jackson

    Shirley Jackson

  • Sarah Orne Jewett

    Sarah Orne Jewett

  • Georgia Douglas Johnson

    Georgia Douglas Johnson

  • Helene Johnson, poet of the Harlem Renaissance

    Helene Johnson

  • Nella Larsen

    Nella Larsen

  • Nelle Harper Lee

    Harper Lee

  • Madeleine L'Engle

    Madeleine L’Engle

  • Lois Lenski

  • Doris Lessing

  • Astrid Lindgren

    Astrid Lindgren

  • Anita Loos

    Anita Loos

  • Audre Lorde

    Audre Lorde

  • Maud Hart Lovelace

    Maud Hart Lovelace

  • Amy Lowell, American poet

    Amy Lowell

  • Katherine Mansfield

    Katherine Mansfield

  • Betty MacDonald

    Betty MacDonald

  • Mary McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy

  • Carson McCullers

    Carson McCullers

  • Grace Metalious

    Grace Metalious

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • Margaret Mitchell

    Margaret Mitchell

  • L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgormery

    L.M. Montgomery

  • E. Nesbit

    E. Nesbit

  • Anais Nin

    Anaïs Nin

  • Flannery O'Connor

    Flannery O’Connor

  • Mary O'Hara

    Mary O’Hara

  • Tillie Olsen

    Tillie Olsen

  • Baroness Emma Emmuska Orczy

    Baroness Emma “Emmuska” Orczy

  • Grace Paley

    Grace Paley

  • Dorothy Parker

    Dorothy Parker

  • Ann Petry photo by Carl Van Vechten

    Ann Petry

  • sylvia plath

    Sylvia Plath

  • Katherine Anne Porter

    Katherine Anne Porter

  • beatrix potter

    Beatrix Potter

  • ayn rand

    Ayn Rand

  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1939

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • Lola Ridge, Radical Poet

    Lola Ridge

  • Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys

  • Christina Rossetti-1877

    Christina Rossetti

  • Susanna rowson

    Susanna Rowson

  • vita sackville-west

    Vita Sackville-West

  • Francois sagan

    Françoise Sagan

  • george sand

    George Sand

  • May Sarton

    May Sarton

  • anna sewell, author of black beauty

    Anna Sewell

  • Anne Sexton poet

    Anne Sexton

  • Margery Sharp

    Margery Sharp

  • mary wollstonecraft shelley

    Mary Shelley

  • Betty Smith

    Betty Smith

  • Dodie Smith

    Dodie Smith

  • Christina Stead

    Christina Stead

  • Gertrude Stein

    Gertrude Stein

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins

    P.L. Travers

  • elizabeth von arnim

    Elizabeth von Arnim

  • Mary Webb

  • eudora welty

    Eudora Welty

  • dorothy west

    Dorothy West

  • Rebecca West

    Rebecca West

  • Edith wharton

    Edith Wharton

  • Phillis Wheatley, first African-American poet

    Phillis Wheatley

  • Kate Douglas Wiggin

    Kate Douglas Wiggin

  • Laura ingalls wilder

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf
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Emma Ward

Posts written by this author:

  • Quotes from Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
  • Audre Lorde
  • Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
  • Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work
  • Quotes from The Street by Ann Petry (1946)

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