Writings by Other Women

 

Short selections from the writings of women discussed A Room of One's Own or in related essays by Virginia Woolf.

 

Sappho
(ca. 600 BCE)

 

 

 

   Madame Murasaki

Margaret Cavendish
(Duchess of Newcastle)
(1623-73)
from Female Orations

   Behn, Aphra
(1640-89) - The Willing Mistress and Preface to The Rover
 

 

 

 

Eliza Haywood
(1693-1756) - from The Female Spectator

 

    

 

 

 

Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-97) - from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

 
 

 

 


Jane Austen
(1775-1817)
 from Love and Friendship

 

 

  

 

Elizabeth Barret Browning(1806-61) - from Aurora Leigh
Emily Bronte    

 

Elizabeth Gaskell
(1810-65) - Chapter I of From Cranford

 

 
 

 

George Eliot
(1819-80): from Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

 

    

Charlotte Brontė
(1816-55) - Chapter I of Jane Eyre
 

 

 

 

 

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1850-1919) - Solitude and Friendship After Love

 

 

 

 

    

Christina Rossetti
(1830-94) -  Song, Symbols, After Death, A Soul, The World, Dead Before Death, and Cobwebs.
 

 

Olive Schreiner
(1855-1920): from Woman and Labour [Sex-parasitism]

 

 

   Mrs. Humphry Ward,
(Mary Augusta Ward)
(1851-1920): from A Writer's Recollection
 

Katherine Mansfield
(1888-1923) - The Doll's House.

 

   Dorothy Richardson
(1873-1957) -  Death.

 

 

 

 

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