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Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate. Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author. Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter.
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (sister) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. [ 2 ] Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. ( Internet Archive) Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. Lonsdale, Roger ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology.
Elizabeth Bartlett (British poet) Susan Bassnett. Liz Berry. Tessa Biddington. Anna Blackwell. Valerie Bloom. Emma Scarr Booth. Marjorie Boulton. Andrea Brady.
Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street ), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron 's friend and physician John William Polidori. [ 1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante Gabriel became an influential ...
This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist . Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement.
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly ( c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. [ 2][ 3] Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America ...
Louisa May Alcott. Emily Gillmore Alden. Dorothy Aldis. Mary Aldis (playwright) Anne Reeve Aldrich. Margaret Chanler Aldrich. Elizabeth Alexander (poet) Maria Alexander. Meena Alexander.
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