Nineteenth Century Female Novelists

[SinnerSaint]

hi...

I need soem help regarding nineteenth century female novelists aka victorian novelists (?)

Are these the only famous female novelists of nineteenth century,

Jane Austin
Brontë
Eliot, George
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Burney, Fanny
Edgeworth, Maria
Wollstonecraft, Mary
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Baillie, Joanna
Susan Ferrier
Mary Hays
Inchbald, Elizabeth
Frances Sheridan
Charlotte Smith
Ann Yearsley


If there are any more please do tell me, plus if anybody knows a good site from where I can find a summary of nineteenth century female novelists, kindly tell me as I've googled it but can't find any summary regarding this topic.

Regards

[Virgil]

Louisa May Alcott
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Three Bontes: Charlotte, Emily, Anne
George Sand

[EAP]

You can try Victorian Web.

I don't see the name of Elizabeth Gaskell in your list. And both Mary Shelley and Jane Austen are far from being victorian.

[Nightshade]

Burnnet, frances hodgson

not spelt write and I know sommore but cant think.

:D

[michela]

Emily Dickinson and the russian I.Marina Czevetaiava.
Look at the www.Example and essayes .com

I should find something special about the Woolf's "orlando" i mean critics and things like that can anybody help me?

[Scheherazade]

I should find something special about the Woolf's "orlando" i mean critics and things like that can anybody help me?The Book Club read Orlando in March:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4090

You might find some of the links refered in the posts useful.

Welcome to the Forum, Michela! :)

[starrwriter]

20th century women writers were better (less melodramatic, more realistic or surrealistic.) Two of the best were Marjorie Rawlings and Isak Dinesen. Some people also like Virginia Woolf more than I do.

[Scheherazade]

Some people also like Virginia Woolf more than I do.*is not one of those people*

[Pensive]

Hehe, The people I know, most of them don't like Woolfy at all. I have heard that she was a feminist.

[Scheherazade]

Hehe, The people I know, most of them don't like Woolfy at all. I have heard that she was a feminist.Yeah, that is why I don't like her! :p

[starrwriter]

Yeah, that is why I don't like her!
An intelligent educated woman who doesn't like feminism? What a concept!

Watch out, Scher. Your conservative roots are showing.

[Nightshade]

Hey I dont like feminests much but I cant stand whats it called Masoginisim? or is it chauvnists? well one of them anyway and even worse then feminstrs is the idea people can survive on their own.
Melodrama is fun somtimes they take themselves so seriouslly you just HAVE to laugh. Its great. Although it can get annoying if theres too much of it......
:D

[starrwriter]

Hey I dont like feminests much but I cant stand whats it called Masoginisim? or is it chauvnists?
My definition of a misogynist is a man who has had an intimate relationship with at least one woman.

[Virgil]

Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse I think ranks in the top five of all time English novels. Most feminists bore me, but that doesn't mean they can't write good novels.

[Aurora Ariel]

I have just read this post now, and everyone appears to have already listed the most significant authors.Nearly all of the main ones, that I would have listed, are already there, but I'll just add one more that came to mind as I was reading the previous names.Ann Radcliff(1764-1823) was the first female who wrote alot of successful Gothic fiction, and though she began in the late eighteenth century, with a few books, her last published work was actually not until 1826 (posthumously presented to the public).She is most famous for The Mysteries of Udolpho , which was read by fellow Gothic authors such as the young Mary Shelley.


Radcliffe's Published Books:

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - 1789
A Sicilian Romance: A Highland Story - 1790
The Romance of the Forest - 1792
The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance - 1794
The Italian: or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents - 1797
Gaston de Blondeville: or, The Court of Henry III Keeping Festival in Ardennes - 1826

[LinFreakinRules]

I believe that Kate Chopin (American) wrote in the 19th century. Also, Collette. Jane Austen, while writing in the relatively brief Georgian period is often lumped with the Victorians for literary purposes because the Georgian and Victorian periods were so close together. So whoever said she's not Victorian is correct, but also incorrect. Did anyone mention Maria Edgeworth? She was either 18th or 19th century.

[Nightshade]

collette now Gigi is just plain wierd read it acouple of months ago and was completly :confused:

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik thats another one :D :nod:

[LinFreakinRules]

collette now Gigi is just plain wierd read it acouple of months ago and was completly :confused:

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik thats another one :D :nod:

Yah, Collette had a very unfortunate life full of ahateful husband that used her as a ghost writer and treated her like crap. Her writing is like her outcry of freedom. Try readin "The Pure and the Impure"...it's really good.

[michela]

My definition of a misogynist is a man who has had an intimate relationship with at least one woman.

mine is Misogynist is a man who can't have any kind of realtinship with no one woman as he simply hate them with any logical reason.

[Virgil]

mine is Misogynist is a man who can't have any kind of realtinship with no one woman as he simply hate them with any logical reason.

I assume, Michela, you meant without any logical reason.