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Literature and Poetry

Born Before 20th Century:

• Sappho, c. 625 B.C.E. (Greece)
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• Pan Chao, c.45-115 (China)
• Al-Khansa, 600-670 (Arabia)
• Murasaki Shikibu, c.978-c.1026 (Japan)
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  Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu, Richard Bowring (Translator), Murasaki Shikibu
  Tale of Genji [UNABRIDGED] by Murasaki Shikubu, Murasaki Shikibu, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator), Lady Murasaki
• Marie (de France) 12 Cent. AD (France)
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  International Marie de France Society
  The Lais of Marie De France by Glyn S. Burgess (Translator), Keith Busby (Translator)
• Christine de Pisan, c.1364-c.1430 (Italy, France)
• Aemilia Lanyer, 1569-1645 (England)
• Ann Bradstreet, c.1612-1672 (England, the American Colonies)
• Mary Rowlandson, c.1635-78 (U.S.A.)
  Captivity and Restoration
  How the War Began
• Aphra Behn, c.1640-1689 (England)
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  Oroonoko : Or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn, Lore Metzger (Introduction)
  Aphra Behn (Writers & Their Work Series) by S. J. Wiseman
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, 1648-1695 (Spain, Mexico)
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• Anne Killigrew, c.1660-1685 (U.K.)
  Selected poetry of Anne Killigrew
• Mary Astell, 1668-1731 (U.K.)
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  The Celebrated Mary Astell : An Early English Feminist (Women in Culture and Society) by Ruth Perry
  Astell : Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Patricia Springborg (Editor), Mary Astell
• Anna Letitia Aikin Barbauld, 1743-1825 (U.K.)
• Fanny Burney, 1752-1840 (U.K.)
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  Camilla (Oxford World's Classics) by Fanny Burney
  Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Penguin Classics) by Fanny Burney
• Phyllis Wheatley, c.1753-1784 (Senegal, U.S.A.: MA)
  Diversity and Phyllis Wheatley
  Phyllis Wheatley by Victoria Sherrow
• Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797 (U.K.)
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  The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara Taylor (Introduction)
• Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851 (U.K.)
• Maria Edgeworth, 1767 - 1849 (U.K., Ireland)
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  Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
  The Absentee (Penguin Classics) by Maria Edgeworth
• Sophie Mereau, 1770-1806 (Germany)
• Jane Austen, 1775-1817 (U.K.)
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• Fanny Trollope, 1780-1863 (U.K.)
  The Vicar of Wrexhill by Frances Milton Trollope, Fanny Trollope
• Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, 1793-1835 (U.K.)
  Hemans Bibliography
• Eliza Lanesford Cushing, 1794-1886 (U.S.A., Canada))
• Harriet Vaughan Cheney, 1796-1889 (U.S.A., Canada)
• Mary Shelley, 1797-1851 (England)
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  Chronology
• Elizabeth Acton, 1799-1859 (U.K.)
• Wu Tsao, c.19th Century (China)
• George Sand, 1804-1876 (France)
  Story of My Life : The Autobiography of George Sand by George Sand, Thelma Jurgrau (Editor)
  Indiana by George Sand, Sylvia Raphael (Translator)
  Mauprat by George Sand et al.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1859 (U.K.)
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• Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith, 1806-1893 (U.S.A.)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811-1896) (U.S.A.)
• Harriet Jacobs, 1813-1897 (U.S.A.: NC, NY, DC, GA, MA)
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  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Harriet A. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Linda Brent, Walter Teller (Designer)
  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Downloadable version)
• Betty Paoli, 1814-1894 (Austria)
• Grace Aguilar, 1816-1847 (U.K.)
• The Bronte Family, Charlotte, 1816-1855 and Emily 1818-1848 (U.K.)
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• Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895 (U.K.)
• Louise Aston, 1818-1871 (Germany)
• George Eliot, 1819-1880 (U.K.)
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  George Eliot : A Life by Rosemary Ashton
  Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893 (U.S.A.)
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  Lucy Larcom : Life Letters and Diary by Daniel D. Nfiaddison
  New England Girlhood by Lucy Larcom
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911 (U.S.A.: MD, OH, PA)
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  A Brighter Coming Day; A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Frances S. Foster (Editor)
  Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph : Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E.W. Harper by Frances Smith Foster (Editor) et al.
• Rosanna Leprohon, 1829-1879 (Canada)
• Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, 1830-1886 (U.S.A.)
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  Emily Dickinson House
• Helen Hunt Jackson, 1830-1885 (U.S.A.)
• Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894 (U.K.)
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• Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888 (U.S.A.: PA, MA, DC)
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  Orchard House
  The Wayside
• Eleanor H. Lay, ?-1904 (U.S.A., Canada)
• Soledad Acosta de Samper, 1833-1903 (Colombia)
• Rebecca Sophia Clarke, 1833-1906 (U.S.A.)
• Celia Laighton Thaxter, 1835-1894 (U.S.A.)
  Celia Thaxter House
• Marietta Holley, 1836-1926 (U.S.A.)
• Agnes Maule Machar, 1837-1927 (Canada)
• Aganice Ainianos, 1838-1892 (Greece)
• Ada Cambridge, 1844-1926 (U.K., Australia)
• Minna Canth, 1844-1897 (Finland)
• Felicite Angers (Laure Conan), 1845-1924 (Canada)
• Isabella Valancy Crawford, 1850-1887 (Ireland, Canada)
• Kate Chopin, 1851-1904 (U.S.A.)
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• Emilia Pardo Bazan, 1852-1921 (Spain)
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  Torn Lace and Other Stories (Texts and Translations. Translations, 5) by Emilia Pardo Bazan, Maria Cristina Urruela (Translator), Joyce Tolliver (Introduction), Elilia Pardo Bazan (Editor)
• Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner, 1855-1920 (South Africa, England)
• Lou(ise) [Lelia] Andreas-Salomé, 1861-1937 (Russia, Germany)
• Mary Eliza Bakewell Gaunt, 1861-1942 (Australia, U.K. Italy)
• Edith Wharton, 1862-1937 (U.S.A.)
  Edith Wharton Restoration
  The Mount: Edith Wharton's House
• Robertine Barry (Francoise), 1863-1910 (Canada)
• Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943 (U.K.)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867-1957 (U.S.A.)
  Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder : The Women Behind the Legend (Missouri Biography Series) by John E. Miller, William E. Foley (Editor)
  Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)
• Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, 1868-1934 (U.K.)
• Akiko Yosano, 1868-1942 (Japan)
• Willa Cather, 1873-1947 (U.S.A.)
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• Colette, 1873-1954 (France)
• Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874-1942 (Canada)
  Complete Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946 (U.S.A., France)
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• Qiu Jin, 1875-1907 (China)
• Sibilla Aleramo, 1876-1960 (Italy)
• Natalie Clifford Barney, 1876-1972 (U.S.A.: OH, DC; France)
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  A Perilous Advantage : The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney by Anna Livia (Editor), Natalie Clifford Barney, Karla Jay
• Mary Roberts Rinehart, 1876 - 1958 (U.S.A.)
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• Jean Webster (McKinney), 1876-1916 (U.S.A.)
  Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics) by Jean Webster
  Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
• Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai, 1878-1952 (Russia)
  Alexandra Kollontai : Selected Articles and Speeches by Alexandra Kollontai
  Love of Worker Bees by Alexandra Kollontai
• Raden Adjeng Kartini, 1879-1904 (Indonesia)
• Sarojini Naidu, 1879-1949 (India)
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  A Poem: Life
• Maria Jotuni, 1880-1943 (Finland)
• 'Daisy' Ashford, 1881-1972 (U.K.)
• Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1882-1961 (U.S.A.)
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  Several of her poems
  Jessie Redmon Fauset : Black American Writer by Carolyn W. Sylvander
  Plum Bun : A Novel Without a Moral by Jessie Redmon Fauset, Deborah E. McDowell (Introduction)
• Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941 (U.K.)
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  A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Mary Gordon
  The Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf, Anne O. Bell (Editor)
• Sigrid Undset, 1882-1949 (Norway)
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• Halide (Edib) Adivar, 1883-1964 (Turkey)
• Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933 (U.S.A.)
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• Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket), c. 1885-1935 (Colville, North American Indian)
  Cogewea, the Half Blood : A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range by Mourning Dove, Sho-Pow-Tan, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
  Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove, Dove Mouring, Heister Dean Guie (Illustrator)
• Rose Wilder Lane, 1886-1968 (U.S.A.)
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  Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane : Forty Years of Friendship Letters, 1921-1960 by William Holtz (Editor), Dorothy Thompson
  Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane
  Old Home Town by Rose Wilder Lane
• Marianne Moore, 1887-1972 (U.S.A.)
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  Timeline
• Ella Cara Deloria, 1888-1971 (Dakota Indian, U.S.A.)
  Speaking of Indians by Ella Cara Deloria, Vine Deloria (Introduction)
  Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria
• Anna Akhmatova, 1889-1966 (Ukraine, U.S.S.R.)
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• Gabriela Mistral, 1889-1957 (Chile)
  A Gabriela Mistral Reader by Gabriela Mistral, Marjorie Agosin (Editor), Maria Jacketti (Translator)
• Delmira Agustini (Uruguay)
• Katherine Anne Porter, 1890-1980 (U.S.A.:TX, IL, MD)
  The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
  Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
• Agatha Christie, 1891-1968 (U.K.)
• Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960 (U.S.A.: Florida, New York)
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  The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston et al.
  Jump at De Sun : The Story of Zora Neale Hurston by A. P. Porter
• Nella Larsen, 1891-1964 (U.S.A.: IL, AL, NY)
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  Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen, Deborah McDowell (Editor)
• Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982 (U.S.A.: NY; France)
• Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973 (U.S.A.)
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  Pearl S. Buck : A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn
  The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Peter Conn (Editor)
  The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck
• Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1892-1969 (U.K.)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950 (U.S.A.)
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  Steepletop: Edna St. Vincent Millay Country Home
• Marina Tsvetaeva, 1892-1941 (Russia)
• Rebecca West, 1892-1983 (U.K.)
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  The Return of the Soldier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Rebecca West
  Young Rebecca : Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17 by Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (Editor)
• Elisaveta Bagryana, 1893-1991 (Bulgaria)
• Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967 (U.S.A.)
  Complete Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker, Colleen Breese (Editor), Mikki Breese (Editor), Regina Barreca (Introduction)
• Charlemae Hill Rollins, 1897-1979 (U.S.A.: MS, IL)