Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus , which is considered an early example of science fiction
19th-century english women writers
Beatrix Potter
English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children’s books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Elizabeth Gaskell
English novelist, biographer and short story writer
George Eliot
English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era
Charlotte Bronte
English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature
Emily Bronte
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
Frances Hodgson Burnett
British novelist and playwright
Frances Hodgson Burnett
British novelist and playwright
Jane Austen
English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century