The Ones Who Started It All
This writer is known best for her work 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kate Chopin is the author of what 19th Century novel widely touted as a proto-feminist or early feminist work
THE AWAKENING
Victim of the Holocaust and author of the posthumously published 'Diary of a Young Girl'
ANNE FRANK
Prominent American social reformer and author of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
Laura Ingalls Wilder is known for her classic set of children's novels
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
Elizabeth Robinson Montagu was apart of many circles of women who promoted literary and intellectual exchanges. What nickname did she earn from this?
Queen of the Bluestockings
A writer in the Southern Gothic style known for works such as 'Wise Blood' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'
FLANNERY O'CONNER
This Puritan settler is known for writing diary entries later known as captivity narratives
MARY ROWLANDSON
First Puritan figure in American literature and prolific female poet of the Early Colonial Period in America
ANNE BRADSTREET
Lucy Maud Montgomery was the Canadian writer of the popular children's novel
ANNE OF THE GREEN GABLES
German abbess of the 11th Century known for her three volumes of theological speculation, the founding of the study of natural history in the German language, and the writer of what is argued to be the oldest surviving morality play
ST. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel about the Civil War and Reconstruction South spawned a film adaptation that is the highest grossing film of all time in the US and Canada with over 202 million admissions
GONE WITH THE WIND
This former first lady of the United States was also a eloquent letter-writer and diarist
ABIGAIL ADAMS
First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921 and author of 'The Age of Innocence'
EDITH WHARTON
Helen Beatrix Potter while being a natural scientist and a conservationist was also a writer of children's novels, notably which popular children's fable:
THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT
Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos and was largely regarded during the 6th Century BC as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess"
SAPPHO
Kathryn Stockett wrote this groundbreaking book in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. It tells about the lives of Black maids of the South
'The Help'
This author is best known for her memoir of being a nurse in WWI, called 'Testament of Youth'
Vera Brittain
Ellen Sturgis Hooper was a member of a New England literary club that included influential American writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Frederic Henry Hedge
THE TRANCENDETALIST'S CLUB
Louise Fitzhugh was the author and illustrator of what popular series of children's books
HARRIET THE SPY
One of the first women to make her career in writing during the 17th Century and author of plays like 'The Rover' (1677) and 'Oroonoko' (1688)
APHRA BEHN
This writer is known for her collection of short stories, including: 'Flowering Judas' and 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider'
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
Julia Ward Howe was a 19th Century abolitionist, social activist, and poet who wrote which hymn used as an unofficial battle anthem for the Union Army
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Pearl S. Buck won her 1938 Nobel Prize in literature largely on the success of her novel chronicling life in an early 20th Century Chinese village
THE GOOD EARTH
Jane Taylor is an English poet credited with the composition of what ubiquotous children's lullaby
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR