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100+3 Greatest Women Authors

A list of the 103 most influential, significant and, frankly, best women authors, including writers of prose, poets, intellectuals and thinkers.
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Sappho
Sappho
1
Christine De Pizan
Christine De Pizan
2
Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz
Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz
3
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
4
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
5
Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe
6
Germaine De Staël
Germaine De Staël
7
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
8
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
9
George Sand
George Sand
10
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell
12
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
13
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
14
Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte
15
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
16
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
17
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
18
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
19
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
20
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
21
Willa Cather
Willa Cather
22
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
23
Colette
Colette
24
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
25
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset
26
Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen
27
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
28
Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore
29
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
30
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova
31
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
32
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys
33
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen
34
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
35
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes
36
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva
37
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
38
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
39
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
40
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