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Women Who Shaped Literature

Distinct writers who changed the possibilities of fiction across eras and languages.

10 books in this list

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

science fiction 1985

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

historical fiction 1982

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott