Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier
Scottish novelist who wrote three novels: Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny, all vigorous and lively pictures of Scottish life and character, written in clear, brisk English, with an inexhaustible fund of humor.
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Sarah Orne Jewett
American novelist, and writer of short stories who excelled in the simple and intimate portrayal of New England character in its finer and gentler moods.
Anne Lynch Botta
American author and sculptor
Edith Wharton
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938).
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
American novelist, poet and essayist
Dorothy Hewett
Hewett’s frank and often personal depiction of female sexuality and strength was at times controversial, but cemented her reputation as a leading feminist, politically aware Australian writer who mastered many genres.
Elizabeth Inchbald
English actress, dramatist and novelist
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
In 1773 she published a volume of her poems, which the same year ran through four editions. During her long life she wrote the life of Richardson, the novelist, and edited Akenside’s Pleasures of the Imagination and Collins’s Odes and a collection of the British Novelists, with memoirs and criticisms.
Caroline Elizabeth Norton
English poet and novelist