Virginia Woolf
English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device
british women short story writers
Sylvia Townsend Warner
English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as Lolly Willowes, Whether a Dove or a Seagull, and After the Death of Don Juan.
Ali Smith
Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist
Zadie Smith
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
Jean Rhys
British novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica
Doris Lessing
British-Zimbabwean novelist
Elizabeth Gaskell
English novelist, biographer and short story writer
Daphne du Maurier
English author and playwright
Agatha Christie
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple