women in literature

[Veva]

Hi,
I was just wondering...if you were to choose 5 women that affected literature in the greatest extent, who would these 5 women be? :idea:

[JBI]

Characters or writers?

[omegaxx]

Hi,
I was just wondering...if you were to choose 5 women that affected literature in the greatest extent, who would these 5 women be? :idea:

Helen of Troy -- for initiating the war that inspired the two Homeric epics
J -- the female author of the Old Testament, as some scholars would have us believe
Beatrice -- for inspiring "The Divine Comedy"
Queen Elizabeth I -- for her patronage of the theatre
Virginia Woolf -- for her iconic status up to this very day

[Veva]

Characters or writers?

Both ....

[JBI]

Toss Sappho in there too.

[Mrs. Dalloway]

Mary W. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (her mother), Virginia Woolf, Grace Nichols , Angela Carter and Jane Austen. I can't put only 5 :)