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This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. Nota bene: authors of novels are the focus of this list, though many of these writers worked in more than one genre.

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2022)

Novelists

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See also

References

Resources

• Backscheider, Paula, and John Richetti, eds. Popular Fiction by Women, 1660–1730: An Anthology. Oxford: OUP, 1996. (Internet Archive)
• Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Clarendon Press, 1992.
• Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive)
• Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive)
• Corman, Brian. Women Novelists Before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons. University of Toronto Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689633
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
• Prescott, Sarah. Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690–1740. Palgrave, 2003.
• Robertson, Fiona, ed. Women's Writing, 1778–1838. Oxford: OUP, 2001. (Internet Archive)
• Schellenberg, Betty A. The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-85060-6.
• Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter. An encyclopedia of British women writers. Rutgers University Press, 1998. (Internet Archive)
• Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. 1986.
• Spender, Dale. Mothers of the novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen. London/NY:Pandora, 1986. (Internet Archive)
• Todd, Janet, ed. British Women Writers: a critical reference guide. London: Routledge, 1989. (Internet Archive)
• Todd, Janet. A Dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660-1800. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. (Internet Archive)
• Williams, K. "Women Writers and the Rise of the Novel." The History of British Women's Writing, 1690–1750. Edited by R. Ballaster. Series: The History of British Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298354_7

External links

• Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print
• British Women Romantic Poets An electronic collection of texts for the period (1789–1832).
• The Brown University Women Writers Project Emphasis is on pre-Victorian women writers.
• A Celebration of Women Writers A major focus of this site is the development of on-line editions of older, often rare, out-of-copyright works.
• Emory Women Writers Resource Project A collection of texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century.
• List of biographical dictionaries Collectively, the resources at this site "provide information about any 17th-century British woman writer one could imagine."
• Luminarium An online Anthology of English Literature
• Romantic Circles, a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
• Women Romantic-Era Writers
• The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online
• The Women's Print History Project

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