Catherine Dent

One of the greatest writers of the Victorian period, Charles Dickens, produced novels that continue to be read and loved to this day.

A writer of cultural criticism, aesthetic theory, and fiction, Vernon Lee’s reputation suffered for her pacifist leanings following WWI before fading from the cultural memory.

While the literary industry is arguably still prejudiced in favor of male writers, historically, women faced barriers to publication and prejudicial attitudes, leading some to adopt male pseudonyms.

In her classic novels, Anne Brontë fearlessly championed women’s issues, challenging not only Victorian social mores but English law and Church of England theology.

Celebrated by Virginia Woolf as the author of “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” George Eliot was a pioneer in women’s fiction and a veritable polymath.

A landmark of lesbian literature, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness sparked such a furor upon publication that it was taken to court for obscenity.

Magical realism is a literary style in which an otherwise seemingly realistic narrative is infused with the fantastical, supernatural, and mythological. Here are 5 of its writers.

From the Italian Renaissance to twentieth-century modernism, women artists have had a long, complicated association with the still life genre.