Good morning, class.
It’s National Women’s History Month, and as usual, I’m celebrating through literature! Out of the many, I’ve picked my favorite female authors and poets who have changed the game (and just to be clear, it may be a national holiday, but my picks are global).
These are in no order, and I’ve included their most notable works (and links to previous blog posts, if you want to hear more of my ramblings . . . enter at your own risk).
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion
- J. K. Rowling: The Harry Potter Series
- Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman
- S. E. Hinton: The Outsiders
- Lois Lowry: The Giver and Number the Stars
- The Brontë Sisters: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
- Alice Walker: The Color Purple
- Emily Dickinson: various poetry
- Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and various poetry
- Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar and various poetry
- Claudia Rankine: Citizen: An American Lyric
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Elizabeth Bishop: various poetry
- Phillis Wheatley: various poetry
- Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and A Room of One’s Own
- Aphra Behn: Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave
We all know that this is the tip of the iceberg . . . none of these women were stopped by the male-dominated-ness of the world of literature, and neither were millions of others. So, small as it may be, consider this post an act of feminism.
Happy National Women’s History Month!
Prof. Jeffrey
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