The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
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The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English is a bio-bibliographical dictionary of women writers and women's writing in English published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-521-49525-3) It was edited by Lorna Sage, with Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter as advisory editors, and contained over 2,500 entries written by a wide range of contributors.
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- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, 1970
- I Live Under a Black Sun, 1937
- I Passed This Way, 1979
- Illness as Metaphor, 1978
- Illustrations of Political Economy, 1832-4
- I'm Dying Laughing, 1986
- I'm the King of the Castle, 1970
- Images in Aspic, 1965
- Imaginary Friends, 1967
- The Imperialist, 1904
- In a Convex Mirror, 1944
- In Search of April Raintree, 1983
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, 1983
- Elizabeth Inchbald / Elizabeth Simpson (1753-1821)
- The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, 1972
- Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
- Esther Inglis / Esther Kello (1571-1624)
- Inner Landscape: Poems 1936-1938 / Inner Landscape, 1938
- Intimate Strangers, 1937
- Invitation to the Waltz, 1932
- Adeline Paulina Irby (1831-1911) and Georgina Muir Mackenzie / Lady Georgina Sebright (1833-1874)
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- Gertrude Page (1873-1922)
- Mary Paisley / Mary Paisley Neale / Mary Neale (1717-1757)
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider, 1939
- Grace Paley / Grace Goodside (born 1922)
- Nettie Palmer / Nettie Higgins (1885-1964)
- Paradise, 1997
- Sara Paretsky (born 1947)
- Ruth Park (born 1923)
- Dorothy Parker / Dorothy Rothschild (1893-1925)
- Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925)
- Katherine Parr / Katherine Borough / Katherine Neville (1512-1548)
- Lorae Parry (born 1955)
- Passing, 1929
- The Passionate Heart, 1918
- Margaret Paston (c.1421/2 – 1484)
- Pastors and Masters, 1925
- A Patchwork Screen for the Ladies, 1723
- Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society, 1970
- F. C. Patrick (fl. 1797-9)
- Patronage, 1814
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894)
- The Pea-Pickers, 1942
- Philippa Pearce / Philippa Ann Pearce (born 1920)
- Pencarrow, 1932
- Hannah Penn (1671-1726)
- Elizabeth Pennington (1734-1759)
- Lady Sarah Pennington (fl. c.1746-1783)
- Padma Perera / Padma Hejmadi (born 1939)
- Emily Perkins (born 1970)
- Persuasion, 1818
- Ann Petry (born 1908 or 1911)
- Emily Jane Pfeiffer / Emily Pfeiffer / Emily Jane Davis / Emily Davis (1827-1890)
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Elizabeth Stuart Ward (1844-1911)
- Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / H. Trusta (1815-1852)
- Katherine Philips / Katherine Fowler / 'The Matchless Orinda' (1632-1694)
- Catharine Phillips / Catharine Peyton (1727-1794)
- Jayne Anne Phillips (born 1952)
- Teresa Constantia Phillips (1709-1765)
- Philo-Philippa (fl.1667)
- Marge Piercy (born 1936)
- Sarah Royden / Lady Sarah Piers (fl.1690s-1714)
- Pilgrimage, 1915-1938
- Letitia Pilkington (1712-1750)
- Mary Pilkington / Mary Hopkins (1766-1839)
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- Quartet, 1928
- Quartet in Autumn, 1977
- A Question of Power, 1973
- Quicksand, 1928
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- Vita Sackville-West / Victoria Sackville-West / Hon. Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962)
- The Sacrifice (1956)
- Françoise Sagan / Françoise Quoirez (born 1935)
- Nayantara Sahgal (born 1927)
- Lisa St Aubin de Teran (born 1953)
- Saint Maybe, 1992
- Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959)
- Agnes Sam (born 1942)
- George Sand / Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876)
- Flora Sandes (1876-1956)
- Sanditon, 1817
- Mari Susette Sandoz / Marie Susette Sandoz (1896-1966)
- Margaret Sanger / Margaret Higgins (1879-1966)
- Hannah Callender / Hannah Sansom (1727-1801)
- Sappho
- Nathalie Sarraute / Nathalie Tchernaik (born 1900)
- May Sarton (born 1912)
- Sassafross, Cypress and Indigo, 1982
- Krupa Sattianadan / Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894)
- Josephine Saxton (born 1935)
- Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)
- Peig Sayers (1873-1958)
- scandalous memoirs
- Nellie Scanlan (1882-1968)
- Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)
- Sarah Schulman (born 1958)
- science fiction
- Evelyn Scott / Elsie Dunn (1893-1963)
- Gail Scott
- Mary Edith Scott (1888-1979)
- Mary Scott / Mary Taylor Scott (1751-1793)
- Rosie Scott / Judy Rosemary Scott (born 1948)
- Sarah Scott / Sarah Robinson (1723-1795)
- Scoundrel Time (1976)
- Edith Scovell / Edith Joy Scovell (born 1907)
- The Sea, The Sea, 1978
- Mary Seacole / Mary Jane Grant (1805-1881)
- The Second Sex, 1949
- The Secret Garden, 1911
- Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality / Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes from the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean, 1709
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)
- Seduction and Betrayal, 1974
- Catherine Selden (fl. 1797-1817)
- Self-Control, 1811
- Olive Senior (born 1941)
- sensation novel
- Sense and Sensibility, 1811
- sensibility
- Serious Money, 1987
- A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, 1694 / 1697
- Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1775-1821)
- Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
- Seven Little Australians, 1894
- Seven Poor Men of Sydney, 1934
- A Severed Head, 1961
- Anna Seward (1742-1809)
- Anna Sewell (1820-1878)
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1815-1896)
- Mary Sewell / Mary Wright (1797-1884)
- Sexing the Cherry, 1989
- Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
- The Shadow Knows, 1975
- Shadows on the Rock, 1931
- Elizabeth Shane / Gertrude Elizabeth Heron Hine (1887-1951)
- Ntozake Shange (born 1948)
- Jo Shapcott (born 1953)
- Mary Shelley / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
- Frances Sheridan (1724-1766)
- Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851)
- Carol Shields (born 1933)
- Shikasta, 1979
- Jan Shinebourne / Janice Shinebourne / Janice Lo Shinebourne (born 1947)
- Ship of Fools, 1962
- Mary Elizabeth Shipley (1842-1914)
- Shirley, 1849
- Sandra Shotlander (born 1941)
- Elaine Showalter (born 1941)
- Penelope Shuttle (born 1947)
- Bapsi Sidhwa (born 1936)
- Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621)
- Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
- Silas Marner, 1861
- Silences, 1979
- Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948)
- Edith Jemima Simcox (1844-1901)
- Posy Simmonds (born 1945)
- A Simple Story, 1791
- Helen Simpson, born 1959
- Helen Simpson / Helen de Guerry Simpson / Helen de Guerry (1897-1940)
- Mona Simpson / Mona Elizabeth Simpson (born 1957)
- The Sin Eater, 1977
- Jo Sinclair (born 1913)
- May Sinclair (1863-1946)
- Rajkumari Singh (1923-1979)
- Edith Sitwell / Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887-1964)
- Felicia Skene / Felicia Mary Frances Skene (1821-1899)
- Eleanor Sleath (fl. 1798-1810)
- Sleeping with Lambs, 1980
- Tess Slesinger (1905-1945)
- Ruby Slipperjack / .Ruby Farrell Slipperjack (born 1952)
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968
- Gillian Slovo (born 1952)
- Small Ceremonies, 1976
- Elizabeth Smart (1913-1986)
- Agnes Smedley (1892-1950)
- Jane Smiley (born 1949)
- Anna Smith / Anna Young (born 1756-1780?)
- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
- Dodie Smith / Dorothy Gladys Smith / 'C. L. Anthony'
- Pauline Smith / 'Janet Tamson' / 'Janet Urmson'
- Stevie Smith / Florence Margaret Smith (1902-1971)
- Elizabeth Smither (born 1941)
- Donna E. Smyth (born 1943)
- Hanna Snell (1723-1792)
- So Big, 1924
- Gaele Sobott-Mogwe (born 1956)
- Zulu Sofola (1935-1995)
- Some Experiences of an Irish RM, 1899
- Somerville and Ross / Edith Œnone Somerville (1858-1949) and Martin Ross / Violet Martin (1862-1915)
- Something to Someone, 1983
- Sonnets from the Portugese, 1850
- Susan Sontag (born 1933)
- 'Sophia' (fl. 1739-40)
- Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954)
- The Sorrow Dance, 1967
- The Sorrows of Satan, 1895
- Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950)
- South Riding, 1936
- Joanna Southcott (1750-1814)
- Frances Southwell / Lady Frances Southwell / Frances Howard (fl. 1598-1615)
- E. D. E. N. Southworth / Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899)
- Ester Sowernam
- Soweto Stories, 1989
- Muriel Spark (born 1918)
- Rachel Speght (born c. 1597)
- Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910)
- Anne Spencer / Annie Bethel Scales Bannister Spencer (1882-1975)
- spiritual autobiography
- Chakravorty Gayatri Spivak (born 1942)
- Harriet Prescott Spofford / Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)
- The Sport of My Mad Mother, 1958
- Constance Spry / Constance Fletcher (1886-1960)
- Madame de Staël / Madame de Stael / Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker (1766-1817)
- Jean Stafford (1915-1979)
- Pauline Stainer (born 1941)
- Stand in the Rain, 1965
- Eugenia Stanhope / Eugenia Peters (c. 1730-1786)
- Hester Stanhope / Hester Lucy Stanhope (1776-1839)
- Mary Stanley (1919-1980)
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
- Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher / Theodora Morris Cope Stanwell-Fletcher / Theodora Morris Cope (born 1906)
- Freya Madeline Stark (1893-1993)
- Christina Stead (1902-1983)
- Steaming, 1981
- Carolyn Steedman / Carolyn Kay Steedman / Carolyn Pilling / Carolyn Kay Pilling (born 1947)
- Danielle Steel / Fernande Shüelein-Steel (born 1950)
- Flora Annie Steel / Flora Annie Webster (1847-1929)
- Anna Steele / 'Theodosia' (1717-1778?)
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
- Ann Sophia Stephens (1813-1886)
- G. B. Stern / Gladys Bronwen Stern (1890-1973)
- Anne Stevenson (born 1933)
- Steveston, 1974
- The Stillborn, 1984
- Wilma Stockenström (born 1933)
- Annis Stockton / Annis Boudinot / Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801)
- Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823-1902)
- Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
- The Stone Angel, 1964
- The Stone Diaries, 1993
- A Stone Diary, 1977
- The Story of a Modern Woman, 1894
- The Story of an African Farm, 1883
- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
- Strangers on a Train, 1950
- Geneva Grace Stratton-Porter / Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)
- Jennifer Strauss (born 1933)
- Noel Streatfield / Mary Noel Streatfield (1895-1986)
- The Street, 1946
- Hesba Stretton / Sarah Smith (1832-1911)
- Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)
- Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life, 1989
- Eithne Strong (born 1923)
- Arbella Lady Stuart (1575-1615)
- Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596-1660)
- Lady Louisa Smart (1757-1851)
- Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, 1880
- suffragette literature
- Sugar Heaven, 1936
- Sula, 1974
- Maud Sulter (born 1960)
- A Summer Bird-Cage, 1963
- Summer Lightning, 1986
- Summer Will Show, 1936
- Essie Summers / Ethel Summers (1912-1998)
- Surfacing, 1972
- Survival, 1972
- Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992)
- Alice Sutcliffe / Alice Woodhouse (fl. 1633)
- Lina Svendsen / Linda Jane Svendsen (born 1954)
- Susan Swan (born 1945)
- Hannah Swarton
- Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (1815-1884)
- Meera Syal (born 1960)
- Roberta Sykes (born 1943)
- Netta Syrett (1865?-1943)
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- Catherine Talbot (1721-1770)
- The Tale of Genji
- Tales of Burning Love, 1996
- Amy Tan / Amy Ruth Tan (born 1952)
- A Taste for Death, 1986
- A Taste of Honey, 1958
- 'Mary Tattle-well'
- Elizabeth Taylor / Lady Wythens / Lady Colepepper (fl. 1680s)
- Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975)
- Harriet Taylor / Harriet Hardy / Harriet Taylor Mill (1807-1858)
- Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
- Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848
- Tender Buttons, 1914
- Emma Tennant (born 1937)
- Kylie Tennant (1912-1988)
- Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762-1837)
- The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America / The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America: By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts, 1650
- Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune / Marion Harland (1830-1922)
- Mary Church Terrell / Mary Eliza Church Terrell (1863-1964)
- Testament of Youth, 1933
- Textermination, 1991
- That Long Silence, 1988
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937
- France Théoret (born 1942)
- Ann Thicknesse / Ann Ford (1737-1824)
- Katherine Thimelby / Katherine Aston (c. 1620s-1650s)
- Winefrid Thimelby
- Angela Thirkell / Angela Mackail (1890-1961)
- This is a short Relation of some of the Cruel Sufferings, 1662
- Audrey Thomas / Audrey Grace Thomas / Audrey Callahan / Audrey Grace Callahan (born 1935)
- Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925)
- Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731)
- Gladys Thomas (born 1935)
- Flora Thompson / Flora Timms (1876-1947)
- Katherine Thomson (born 1955)
- Alice Thornton / Alice Wandesford (1627-1707)
- Rose Hartwick Thorpe (1850-1939)
- The Thousand Faces of Night, 1992
- The Three Fates, 1984
- Three Guineas, 1938
- Thru, 1975
- Katherine Cecil Thurston / Katherine Cecil Madden (1875-1911)
- Mary Tighe / Mary Blanchford (1772-1810)
- Lady Clark of Tillypronie (1824-1897)
- James Tiptree, Jr. / Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon / Racoona Sheldon (1915-1987)
- Tirra Lirra by the River, 1978
- Miriam Tlali (born 1933)
- To Bedlam and Part Way Back, 1960
- To Stay Alive, 1971
- To the Lighthouse, 1927
- To the Priests and People of England, 1655
- Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967)
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow, 1947
- Top Girls, 1982
- Lola Lemire Tostevin (born 1937)
- The Towers of Trebizond, 1956
- Sue Townsend / Susan Lilian Townsend (born 1946)
- Catherine Parr Traill (1802-1899)
- Tranformations, 1971
- The Transit of Venus, 1980
- Barbara Trapido / Barbara Louise Trapido (born 1941)
- Anna Trapnel
- Travel writing
- Travelling Ladies, 1990
- P. L. Travers / Pamela Lyndon Goff Travers (1899-1996)
- Violet Trefusis (1894-1972)
- Rose Tremain / Rose Thomson (born 1943)
- Melesina Trench / Melesina Chevenix / Melesina Chevenix Trench Melesina St George Chevenix / Melesina St George Trench (1768-1827)
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing, 1989
- Sarah Trimmer / Sarah Kirby (1741-1810)
- Flora Tristan / Flore Céleste Thérèse Henriete Tristan y Moscoso (1803-1844)
- Frances Trollope (1779-1863)
- Catherine Trotter / Catherine Cockburn (1679-1749)
- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
- Margaret Tudor (1489-1541)
- Eliza Dorothea Tuite / Eliza Dorothea Cobbe (1764-1850)
- The Turkish Embassy Letters, 1763
- Ethel Turner / Ethel Sybil Turner / Ethel Burwell / Ethel Sybil Burwell / Dame Durden (1872-1958)
- Jane Turner (fl. 1653)
- Lisa Tuttle (born 1952)
- The 27th Kingdom, 1982
- Two Serious Ladies, 1943
- Two Women of London, 1989
- Anne Tyler (born 1941)
- Margaret Tyler (fl. 1578)
- Katharine Tynan (1861-1931)
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- Adaora Lily Ulasi (born 1932)
- Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill: An Australian Novel / Uncle Piper of Piper's Hill, 1889
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1851-2
- Under My Skin: Volume I of my Autobiography, to 1949 / Under My Skin, 1994
- Under the Net, 1954
- Union Street, 1982
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972
- Up Country, 1972
- Up the Country, 1928
- Jane Urquhart (born 1949)
- Alison Uttley / Alice Jane Uttley / Alice Jane Taylor (1884-1976)
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- Jean Valentine (born 1934)
- The Valleys of the Assassins, 1934
- Aritha van Herk (born 1954)
- Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer (1851-1934)
- Lady Frances Vane / Frances Vane (1715-1788)
- Anne Vavasour / Anne Finch / Anne Richardson (fl. 1580-1622)
- Vera, 1921
- Yvonne Vera (born 1964)
- Barbara Vernon (1916-1978)
- Victoria (1819-1901)
- Victoria of England, 1936
- Mary Theresa Vidal (1815-1869)
- Vicki Viidikas (1948-1998)
- Villette, 1853
- Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects / Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
- Helena Maria Viramontes (born 1954)
- The Virgin in the Garden, 1978
- The Volcano Lover, 1992
- Elizabeth Von Armin / Mary Annette Beauchamp / Mary Annette, Countess Russell (1866-1941)
- The Voyage Out, 1915
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- Charity Waciuma
- Helen Waddell (1889-1965)
- Priscilla Wakefield / Priscilla Bell Wakefield (1751-1832)
- Diane Wakoski (born 1937)
- Lucy Walford / Lucy Colquhoun / Lucy Bethia Walford / Lucy Bethia Colquhoun (1845-1915)
- Alice Walker (born 1944)
- Brenda Walker (born 1957)
- Margaret Walker / Margaret Abigail Walker / Margaret Walker Alexander / Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (1915-1998)
- Bronwen Wallace (1945-1989)
- Dolores Walshe (born 1949)
- Ania Walwicz (born 1951)
- The Wanderer: Or, Female Difficulties / The Wanderer, 1814
- Micheline Wandor (born 1940)
- The War Between the Tates, 1974
- Harriet Ward (1808-1873)
- Mrs Humphry Ward / Mary Ward / Mary Arnold (1851-1920)
- Nicole Ward Jouve (born 1938)
- Marina Warner (born 1946)
- Susan Warner (1819-1885)
- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
- Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
- Alice Waters / Alice Waters Singer (born 1944)
- Jean Watson (born 1935)
- The Waves, 1931
- We of the Never-Never, 1908
- Anna Weamys (fl. 1651)
- The Weather in the Streets, 1936
- Beatrice Webb / Beatrice Potter (1858-1943)
- Gladys Mary Webb / Mary Webb / Gladys Mary Meredith / Mary Meredith (1881-1927)
- Augusta Webster / Augusta Davies
- Jean Webster / Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916)
- Ellen Weeton / Mrs Stock (1776-1845)
- Simone Weil (1909-1943)
- Angelina Weld / Angelina Grimké Weld / Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (1805-1879)
- Fay Weldon (born 1933)
- The Well, 1986
- The Well of Loneliness, 1928
- Dorothy Wellesley / Dorothy Violet Ashton (1889-1956)
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1939)
- Eudora Welty / Eudora Alice Welty (born 1909)
- Anne Wentworth (fl. 1676-9)
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Mary Wesley / Mary Aline Siepmann Farmer (born 1912)
- Dorothy West (born 1907)
- Jane West (1758-1852)
- Mae West (1893-1980)
- Rebecca West / Cicily Isobel Fairfield (1892-1983)
- Jessie Edith Weston (1867-1944)
- Anne Wharton (1659-1685)
- Edith Wharton / Edith Newbold Jones / Edith Newbold Wharton (1862-1937)
- What Remains, 1990 / 1993
- Anne Wheathill (fl. 1584)
- Nadia Wheatley (born 1949)
- Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)
- Anna Wheeler (1785-1848)
- The Whirlpool. 1986
- Antonia White / Eirene Adeline Botting (1899-1980)
- Isabella Whitney (c. 1540 - after 1580)
- Who Do You Think You Are?, 1974
- Anna Wickham / Edith Mary Alice Harper (1884-1947)
- Susan Wicks (born 1947)
- Zoë Wicomb (born 1948)
- Margaret Widdemet (1884-1978)
- Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
- Dara Wier (born 1949)
- Marianne Wiggins (born 1947)
- Punyakane Wijenaike (born 1933)
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
- The Wild Irish Girl, 1806
- Wild Nights, 1979
- Jane Wilde / Jane Francesca Wilde / Jane Elgee / Jane Francesca Elgee (1821-1896)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder / Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957)
- The Wilder Shores of Love, 1954
- Anne Wilkinson / Anne Gibbons (1910-1961)
- Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839-1898)
- Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827)
- Catherine Wilmot (1773-1824)
- Martha Wilmot / Martha Bradford (1775-1873)
- Anne Glenny Wilson / Lady Anne Glenny Wilson (1848-1930)
- Augusta Jane Wilson / Augusta Jane Evans (1835-1909)
- Harriet E. Wilson / Harriet E. Adams (1828? - 1870?)
- Harriette Wilson (1786-1845)
- Anne Kingsmill / Anne Finch / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
- Sheila Wingfield / Sheila Claude, Sheila Wingfield, Viscountess Powerscourt (1906-1995)
- Mary Wings (born 1949)
- Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)
- Susanna Winkworth (1820-1884)
- Sarah Winnemucca / Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)
- John Strange Winter / Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard (1856-1911)
- Winter Sun, 1960
- Jeanette Winterson (born 1959)
- Wise Blood, 1952
- Adele Wiseman (1928-1992)
- Sally Wister / Sarah Wister (1761-1804)
- Monique Wittig (born 1935)
- Amy Witting / Joan Levick / Joan Fraser (born 1918)
- Wives and Daughters, 1864-66
- Christa Wolf (born 1929)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy / Elizabeth Clark Wolstenholme-Elmy
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
- Woman on the Edge of Time, 1976
- Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts / Woman Warrior, 1976
- Women in a Lampshade, 1983
- Women in the Wall, 1975
- The Women of Brewster Place, 1980
- The Women's Room, 1977
- Jade Snow Wong (born 1919)
- Ellen Wood (1814-1887)
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927)
- Virginia Woolf / Virginia Stephen / Adeline Virginia Woolf / Adeline Virginia Stephen (1882-1941)
- Sue Woolfe / Suzanne Woolfe (born 1950)
- Hannah Woolley (1622?-1675)
- Constance Fennimore Woolson (1840-1894)
- Emma Jane Worboise / Mrs Guyton (1825-1887)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
- Frances Wright / Madam d'Arusmont (1795-1852)
- Judith Wright / Judith McKinney (born 1915)
- L. R. Wright / Laurali R. Wright (born 1939)
- Susanna Wright (1697-1785)
- Patricia Wrightson (born 1921)
- The Wrongs of Woman / The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria, 1798
- Mary Wroth (c. 1586-c.1651)
- Wuthering Heights, 1847
- Elinor Hoyt Wylie (1885-1928)
- Sylvia Wynter (born 1932)
Y
- Hisaye Yamamoto / Hisaye DeSoto / Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto / Napoleon (born 1921)
- Frances Yates / Frances Amelia Yates (1899-1981)
- The Years, 1937
- Ann Yearsley / Ann Cromartie (1752-1806)
- 'The Yellow Wallpaper', 1892
- Anzia Yezierska (1880?-1970)
- Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)
- Yonnondio / Yonnondio: From the Thirties, 1974
- E. H. Young / Emily Hilda Young (1880-1949)
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- Zitkala-Sa / Zitkala-Ša / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (1876-1938)
- Fay Zwicky (born 1933)
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