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Jane Austen 1775-1817 - One of the most popular female authors Jane Austen wrote several

novels, which remain highly popular today. These include “Pride and Prejudice” “Emma” and

“Northanger Abbey”. Jane Austen wrote at a time when female writers were very rare, helping

pave the way for future writers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe was a life long anti slaverycampaigner. Her novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a best seller and helped to popularise the anti

slavery campaign. Abraham Lincoln would later remark her books were a major factor behind the

 American civil war.

Emily Dickinson 1830 – 1886 - One of America’s greatest poets Emily Dickinson lived most

of her life in seclusion. Her poems were published posthumously and received widespread

literary praise for their bold and unconventional style. Her poetic style left a significant legacy on

20th Century poetry.

George Eliot

Simone de Beauvoir 1908-1986 - One of the leading existentialist philosophers of theTwentieth Century, Simone de Beauvoir developed a close personal and intellectual relationship

 with Jean Paul Satre. Her book “The Second Sex” depicted the traditions of sexism that

dominated society and history. It was a defining book for the feminist movement.

Toni Morrison 

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Clout:Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize winning author.

Novelist, editor and professor Toni Morrison is best-known for such works

as The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved (which was adapted into a

film). Morrison’s Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning work shakes readers totheir cores by taking an unflinching and often haunting look at the black

experience in America.

Toni Morrison (born 1931): The American writer, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for

Literature, is noted for her examination of black experience (particularly black female

experience) within the black community. Her Beloved  (1987), based on the true story of

a runaway slave who, at the point of recapture, kills her infant daughter in order to

spare her a life of slavery, won a Pulitzer.

Alice Munro (born 1931): The Canadian short-story writer gained internationalrecognition with her exquisitely drawn stories, usually set in southwestern Ontario,

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peopled by characters of Scotch-Irish stock. Munro’s work is noted for its precise

imagery and narrative style, which is at once lyrical, compelling, economical, and

intense, revealing the depth and complexities in the emotional lives of ordinary

individuals

Virginia Woolf  (1882-1941): The English writer’s novels, through their nonlinearapproaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best

known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927),

Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing,

and the politics of power.