Women's History Month 2022

Malala Yousafzai is an activist and author who spoke out publicly against the prohibition of ed-ucation for girls imposed by the Pakistani Taliban. She gained global attention after surviving an assassination attempt. She and Kailash Satyarthi were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in recognition of their efforts on behalf of children’s rights in 2014.

· I Am Malala (2013)

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels.

· Little Women (1868-69)

· Little Men (1886)

· Jo’s Boys and How They Turned Out (1886)

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author who began to write a long tale about slavery which became the book she is most known for, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

· Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851-52)

· A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

· Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856)

Jane Austen was an English author who completed only six official works during her lifetime.

· Sense and Sensibility (1811)

· Pride and Prejudice (1813)

· Mansfield Park (1814)

· Emma (1815)

· Persuasion (1817)

· Northanger Abbey (1817)

· Sanditon (1817) Incomplete

Emily Dickinson was an American poet, little-known during her life, but regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.

· “I taste a liquor

never brewed” (1861)

· “Success is counted sweetest” (1864)

· “Wild nights – Wild nights” (1891)

· “Hope’ is the thing with

feathers” (1891)

Laura Ingalls was an American writer, mostly known for the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books which were based on her child-hood in a pioneer family.

· Little House in the

Big Woods (1932)

· Little House on the

Prairie (1932)

· Farmer Boy (1933)

· The Long Winter (1940)

Toni Morrison is an American writer noted for her examination of the Black experience and the Black female experience within the Black

community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

· The Bluest Eye (1970)

· Beloved (1987)

· God Help the Child (2015)

Edith Wharton was an American writer who drew upon her knowledge of the New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray

the lives and morals

of the Gilded Age.

· The House of Mirth (1905)

· Ethan Frome (1911)

· The Age of Innocence (1920)

Virginia Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century English authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

· The Voyage Out (1913)

· Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

· To the Lighthouse (1927)

Dame Agatha Christie was an English writer known for her detective novels and short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and

Miss Marple.

· The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

· The Murder of

Roger Ackroyd (1926)

· Murder at the

Vicarage (1930)

Harper Lee was an American novelist best known for her first novel To Kill a Mockingbird which won a Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature.

· To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

· Go Set a Watchman (2015)

Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning

over 50 years.

· And Still I Rise (1978)

· The Heart of

a Woman (2009)

· I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (2009)

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author whose works starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction closely tied to her personal experiences and, by extension, the situation of women in mid-20^th century America.

· The Colossus and Other Poems (1960)

· The Bell Jar (1963)

· Ariel (1965)

Alice Walker is an American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their insightful treatment of African American

culture. Her novels focus particularly on women.

· The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

· The Color Purple (1982)

· Now is the Time to Open Your Heart (2005)

Jenny Han is an American author of young adult and children's fiction. She is best known for writing

The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy and the

To All the Boys series.

· The Summer I Turned Pretty (2009)

· To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2014)

· P.S. I Still Love You (2015)

· Always and Forever, Lara Jean (2017)

Anne Rice was an American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature. She was

best known for her

series of novels

The Vampire Chronicles.

· Interview with the

Vampire (1976)

· The Vampire Lestat (1985)

· Queen of the Damned (1988)

Mary Shelley was an English novelist who

wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus,

which is considered

an early example of science fiction.

· Frankenstein (1818)

· Valperga (1823)

· The Last Man (1826)

· Mathilde (1959)

published posthumously

Amy Tan is an American author of novels about Chinese American

women and the

immigrant experience.

· The Joy Luck Club (1989)

· The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991)

· The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

· The Bonesetter’s

Daughter (2001)

Shirley Jackson was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for her story,

“The Lottery”.

· The Lottery (1948)

· The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

· We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals.

· The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901)

· The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (1903)

· The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (1904)

J.K. Rowling is a British author, creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter

series, about a young sorcerer in training.

· Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1997)

· Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)

· Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)

· Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet whose reputation rests chiefly upon her love poems. Notably, Sonnets from the Portuguese and

Aurora Leigh, the latter is

now considered an early feminist text.

· The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point (1848)

· Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

· Aurora Leigh (1857)

Lisa Ko is an American writer. Her debut novel, The Leavers, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize

for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction.

· The Leavers (2017)

· The Contractors (2020)

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist noted for Jane Eyre, a strong narrative of a woman in conflict with her natural desires and social condition. The novel gave new truthfulness to Victorian fiction.

· Jane Eyre (1847)

· Shirley (1849)

· Villette (1853)