Classic Female Authors and Novels
Pen Names and Pseudonyms
Literary Heroines
Female Poets and Playwrights
Dystopian and Sci-Fi Novels by Women
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The famous 19th century author who wrote Pride and Prejudice.

Who is Jane Austen?

100

George Eliot

Who is Mary Ann Evans?

100

In Little Women, the story follows the lives of this 19th-century heroine and her three sisters.

Who is Jo March?

100

In her 1978 poem, she wrote, "You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise."

Who is Maya Angelou?

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This dystopian novel was published in 1985 by Margaret Atwood.

What is The Handmaid's Tale?

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The line, “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will," is from this 1847 novel.

What is Jane Eyre?

200

Currer Bell

Who is Charlotte Brontë?

200

She volunteered as tribute to take her sister's place in this 2008 dystopian novel.

Who is Katniss Everdeen?

200

This 19th century poet was known for her famous works, including "Because I could not stop for Death," "Hope is the thing with feathers," and "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."

Who is Emily Dickinson?

200

Octavia E. Butler published this 1995 dystopian novel.

What is the Parable of the Sower?

300

The character, Catherine Earnshaw, is from this 1847 novel.

What is Wuthering Heights?

300

Ellis Bell

Who is Emily Brontë?

300

This literary heroine is from the 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Who is Janie Crawford?

300

The poem, "Wild Geese," is written by what American poet.

Who is Mary Oliver?

300

This 1995 dystopian novel is about a young girl who is in a cage underground with thirty nine other women.

What is I Who Have Never Known Men?

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This British novelist wrote Mrs. Dalloway and introduced the literary style technique, stream of consciousness.

Who is Virginia Woolf?

400

E.M. Barnard

Who is Louisa May Alcott?

400

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, focuses on the story of this literary heroine.

Who is Celie?

400

The 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun, was written by this American playwright and writer.

Who is Lorraine Hansberry?

400

This American author is best known for her works of fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative fiction, including her famous short story, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Who is Ursula K. Le Guin?

500

The line, "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous," is from what 1818 Gothic novel.

What is Frankenstein?

500

George Sand

Who is Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin?

500
The main female character of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.

Who is Stephen Gordon?

500

This American playwright and novelist wrote the play, Alison's House.

Who is Susan Glaspell?

500

Tamsyn Muir is known for this famous sci-fi-fantasy novel series, with its first novel, Gideon the Ninth.

What is the Locked Tomb series?