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
  • Harriet Ann Jacobs

    Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • 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
  • gabriela mistral

    Gabriela Mistral 
  • 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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Susan Bailey

Posts written by this author:

  • May Alcott Nieriker: Thoroughly Modern Woman
  • How Louisa May Alcott’s Feminism Explains Her Timelessness
  • Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott (1873)
  • March by Geraldine Brooks (2005) – a review
  • Madeleine B. Stern’s Brilliant Analysis of Little Women
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