List Of Early-modern British Women Novelists
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This is an alphabetical list of female
novelists A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while othe ...
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.


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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

oi:10.3138/9781442689633, https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689633 *
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'. 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. . *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 Janet Margaret Todd OBE (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. Much of her work concerns Mary ...
, ed. ''British Women Writers: a critical reference guide''. London: Routledge, 1989. ( Internet Archive) *
Todd, Janet Janet Margaret Todd OBE (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. Much of her work concerns Mary ...
. ''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
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* ttp://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/ British Women Romantic PoetsAn 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.

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.
The Women's Print History Project
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