NINE OUTSTANDING WOMEN WRITERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
1. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
She published five prose works under her own name:
1.
Lover's Watch (1686),
2.
The Fair Jilt (1688),
3.
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave (1688),
4.
The History of the Nun (1689)
5.
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
2. Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
1.
Sense
and Sensibility (1811) -
First published anonymously by ‘A Lady,’
2.
Pride
and Prejudice (1813) - A
novel presentinging an immortal character Elizabeth Bennet
3.
Emma
(1815) - A comedy of manners
3. Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
1.
Frankenstein; or, The
Modern Prometheus (1818) , First unorthodox science
fiction
2.
Valperga (1823) - A
historical novel
3.
Rambles
in Germany and Italy (1844) - A
travel narrative published in two volumes that describes two European trips
Shelley took
4. Emily Brontë (1818 -
1848)
1.
Wuthering Heights
(1847) - A Romantic and Gothic fiction
5. Charlotte
Brontë (1816 - 1855)
1.
Jane Eyre
(1847) –
2.
Shirley
(1849) –
3.
Villette
(1853) –
6. Virginia Woolf (1882 -
1941)
1.
Mrs
Dalloway (1925) –
2.
To the
Lighthouse (1927) - A philosophical
introspection novel
3.
A Room of
One’s Own (1929) - An extended essay, based
on two lectures on feminism Woolf delivered in October 1928
7. Agatha Christie (1890
- 1976) Detective crime writer Agatha Christie is recognized
by the Guinness World Records as the best-selling fiction writer of all times.
1.
Murder on
the Orient Express (1934)
2.
The
A.B.C. Murders (1936)
3.
The
Mousetrap (1952) – A murder mystery play
4.
8. Margaret Atwood (1939
- ) Canadian-born poet and novelist
1.
The
Handmaid’s Tale (1985) –
2.
Alias
Grace (1996) - A novel of historic
fiction
3.
The
Testaments (2019) - A sequel to ‘The
Handmaid’s Tale’ set 15 years after the events of the original.
9. Alice Walker (1944 - )
In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win
the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel ‘The Color Purple’.
1.
Meridian
(1976)
2.
The Color
Purple (1982)
3.
Possessing
the Secret of Joy (1992)
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