Inspiration for Readers and Writers from Classic Women Authors
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Louisa May Alcott
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Maya Angelou
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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Jane Austen
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Mary Hunter Austin
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Natalie Babbitt
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Enid Bagnold
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Djuna Barnes
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Margaret Ayer Barnes
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Natalie Clifford Barney
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Aphra Behn
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett
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Kay Boyle
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Anne Bradstreet
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Anne Brontë
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Charlotte Brontë
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Emily Brontë
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Margaret Wise Brown
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Pearl S. Buck
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Julia de Burgos
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Octavia E. Butler
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Angela Carter
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Rosario Castellanos
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Willa Cather
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Lydia Maria Child
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Kate Chopin
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Agatha Christie
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Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)
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Simone de Beauvoir
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Emily Dickinson
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Isak Dinesen
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Mary Mapes Dodge
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Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
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Daphne du Maurier
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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George Eliot
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Eleanor Estes
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Edna Ferber
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Louise Fitzhugh
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Miles Franklin
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Martha Gellhorn
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Susan Glaspell
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Rumer Godden
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Radclyffe Hall
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Frances Watkins Harper
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Lillian Hellman
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Patricia Highsmith
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Laura Z. Hobson
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Fannie Hurst
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Shirley Jackson
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Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Helene Johnson
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Caroline Kirkland
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Nella Larsen
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Emma Lazarus
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Harper Lee
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Madeleine L’Engle
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Lois Lenski
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Doris Lessing
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Astrid Lindgren
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Anita Loos
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Audre Lorde
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Maud Hart Lovelace
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Amy Lowell
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Katherine Mansfield
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Betty MacDonald
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Mary McCarthy
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Carson McCullers
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Grace Metalious
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Gabriela Mistral
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Margaret Mitchell
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L.M. Montgomery
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Toni Morrison
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Iris Murdoch
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E. Nesbit
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Anaïs Nin
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Mary Norton
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Flannery O’Connor
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Mary O’Hara
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Tillie Olsen
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Baroness Emma “Emmuska” Orczy
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Grace Paley
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Dorothy Parker
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Ann Petry
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Sylvia Plath
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Katherine Anne Porter
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Beatrix Potter
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Dawn Powell
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Barbara Pym
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Ayn Rand
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Adrienne Rich
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Lola Ridge
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Jean Rhys
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Christina Rossetti
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Susanna Rowson
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Vita Sackville-West
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Françoise Sagan
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George Sand
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May Sarton
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Anna Sewell
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Anne Sexton
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Ntozake Shange
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Margery Sharp
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Mary Shelley
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Betty Smith
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Dodie Smith
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Anne Spencer
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Christina Stead
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Gertrude Stein
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Sara Teasdale
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P.L. Travers
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Elizabeth von Arnim
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Mary Webb
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Eudora Welty
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Dorothy West
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Rebecca West
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Edith Wharton
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Phillis Wheatley
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Virginia Woolf
