List of women novelists before Jane Austen

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Dale Spender laid the groundwork for this list in her classic Mothers of the Novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen (1986) (names on Spender's original list are indicated with an asterisk [*]).

[edit] The Novelists

• Penelope Aubin*
• Jane Barker*
• Aphra Behn
• Anna Maria Bennett* (whom Spender called Agnes Maria Bennett)
• Elizabeth Bonhôte*
• Elizabeth Boyd*
• Sophie Briscoe*
• Eliza Bromley*
• Frances Brooke*
• Indiana Brooks*
• Mary Brunton*
• Mrs Burke*
• Frances Burney*
• Sarah Harriet Burney*
• Lady Charlotte Bury*
• Mary Butt, Mrs Sherwood*
• Elizabeth Byron (Strutt)
• Mrs. Carver
• Lady Mary Champion de Crespigny*
• Charlotte Charke*
• Mary Charlton*
• Harriet Cheney
• Harriet Chilcot*
• Emily Clark*
• Jane Collier*
• Mary Collyer*
• Maria Susanna Cooper
• Helen Craik
• Charlotte Dacre
• Anne Seymour Damer*
• Mary Davys*
• Anne Dawe*
• Anne Eden*
• Maria Edgeworth*
• Elisa Fenwick*
• Susan Ferrier
• Sarah Fielding*
• E. M. Foster*
• Hannah Foster
• Anne Fuller*
• Phoebe Gibbes*
• Mrs A. Gomershall*
• Sarah Green*
• Elizabeth Griffith*
• Susannah Minifie Gunning*
• Elizabeth Hamilton*
• Lady Mary Hamilton*
• Mary Ann Hanway*
• Jane Harvey
• Laetitia Matilda Hawkins*
• Mary Hays*
• Eliza Haywood
• Mary Hearne*
• Elizabeth Helme*
• Elizabeth Hervey*
• Mrs Howell*
• Anne Hughes*
• M. (Harley) Hugill*
• Maria Hunter*
• Rachel Hunter
• Elizabeth Inchbald*
• Frances Jacson
• Mrs. Johnson
• Susanna Keir*
• Isabella Kelly*
• Anne Kerr*
• Sophia King*
• Ellis Cornelia Knight*
• Caroline Lamb
• Sarah Lansdell*
• Mary Latter*
• Harriet Lee*
• Sophia Lee*
• Charlotte Lennox*
• Alethea Lewis
• Charlotte MacCarthy*
• Anna Maria Mackenzie*
• Delarivier Manley
• Jean Marishall* (whom Spender called Jean Marshall)
• Mrs Martin
• Eliza Matthews*
• Anna Meades*
• Mary Meeke*
• Margaret Minifie*
• Hannah More*
• Lady Morgan* (Sydney Owenson)
• Elizabeth Norman*
• Amelia Opie*
• Charlotte Palmer*
• Mary Elizabeth Parker*
• Catherine Parry*
• Eliza Phelp Parsons*
• Susanna Pearson*
• M. Peddle*
• Mary Pilkington*
• Mary Pix*
• Arabella Plantin*
• Anne Plumptre
• Elizabeth Plunkett*
• Jane Porter
• Elizabeth Purbeck
• Jane Purbeck
• Ann Radcliffe*
• Mary Anne Radcliffe*
• Clara Reeve*
• Mary Darby Robinson*
• Regina Maria Dalton Roche*
• Elizabeth Singer Rowe*
• Susanna Rowson*
• Elizabeth Ryves* (or Elizabeth Reeves)
• Charlotte Sanders* (or Charlotte Saunders)
• Sarah Robinson Scott*
• Catherine Selden
• Frances Sheridan*
• Ann Emelinda Skinn*
• Eleanor Sleath*
• Catherine Smith
• Charlotte Smith*
• Elizabeth Isabella Spence
• Sarah Emma Spencer*
• Augusta Amelia Stuart
• Miss Taylor*
• Jane Timbury*
• Elizabeth Tomlins*
• Jane Warton*
• Jane West*
• Helena Wells*
• Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
• Helen Maria Williams*
• Mary Wollstonecraft*
• Mrs A. Woodfin*
• Ann Yearsley*
• Mary Julia Young*

[edit] See also

• List of biographical dictionaries of women writers
• List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
• List of early-modern women poets (UK)
• List of women writers
• Women's writing in English

[edit] Resources

• Spender, Spender. Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. Pandora Press, 1986. ISBN-10 0863580815; ISBN-13 9780863580819.