most famous female authors of all time
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Women who changed the world A list of famous female authors. Sappho (c 570 BC) One of the first published female writers. Much of her poetry has been lost, but her immense reputation has remained. Plato referred to Sappho as one of the great 10 poets. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Mystic, author and composer.
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- Elena Ferrante is the pen-name of an Italian novelist whose true identity is not publicly known. Though heralded as the most important Italian novelist of her generation, she has kept her identity secret since the publication of her first novel in 1992.
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- The Swedish-born writer was the first woman to win the award. The Nobel committee described her work as lofty, vivid and spiritual, mostly known for her children's books. Most famous work: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils – the 1906 book follows the life of a young boy named Nils Holgersson.
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- Facts about female authors. Alice Munro was the first Canadian woman to win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 13th woman to ever win the prize. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was the first American woman to make a substantial living through novel writing.
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Jane Austen Jane Austen (/ˈdʒeɪn ˈɔːstən/; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
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10 Most Admired Women in the World 4. Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an iconic beauty of her time. She was an actress of 1950s. She is known for her motion pictures of the World War II times. Marilyn was a talented and well versed female performer, who used to work really hard in keeping her name at the heights of success.
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10 Famous Female Movie Characters 1 Carrie (Sissy Spacek), Carrie 1976. 2  Modern-day emo angsty kids have nothing on this bundle of teenage hormones and mood-swings. 3  Everyone that's ever had the fortune of seeing her, remembers our blood-drenched little Carrie, making her one of the most memorable famous female movie characters of all time.
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- Canadian author Alice Munro, renowned for her short stories, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this year, marking it the thirteenth time in history that a woman has been given the award.
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10 Famous Female Movie Characters 1 Scarlett O'Hara is easily one of the most famous female movie characters, as well as one of the most memorable. 2  Spunky, spoiled and determined, she set the standard for movies about Southern belles. 3  Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Alien (1979). 4  Let's face it, Ripley was awesome.
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?????? ?? By Esther Lombardi. Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) became one of the most famous American writers with the publication of her novel,  Gone With the Wind  in 1936.
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10 Youngest Authors in History Flavia Bujor wrote her first book when she was 12 and published it with HarperCollins when she was 14. The Prophecy of the Stones is about three teenage girls who come together to fulfill an ancient prophecy, while in a parallel world another girl lies dying in a hospital.
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- New American Cursive. I like New American Cursive. This form of cursive is simple and clean. The child learns to write using cursive—they start with cursive. There is no manuscript form, although, the capital letters F, Q, T, and Z are made like manuscript capital letters.
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- The 60 greatest female singer-songwriters of all time. 60: SARAH MCLACHLAN Canadian Sarah McLachlan is best known for her emotive, glacial ballads, but she complements her songwriting with an impressive sideline in charity work.
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Americans Pick 50 Most Admired Men, Women More women than men voted for Winfrey in their choice for most admired woman. Women also included actress Angelina Jolie, who finished sixth, in their list. Following Jolie, Nancy Pelosi, Madeleine Albright, Barbara Bush and Maya Angelou rounded out the top 10.
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- Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf, English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best known for her novels,
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- Order of Stephenie Meyer Books Stephenie Meyer is an American novelist and film producer who is best known for writing the Twilight Saga books. Within three years of her writing her first book, Twilight, her book had already been adapted to a major motion picture that made $400 million… and that was only the beginning.
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- Zora Neale Hurston, 1891-1960. Now lauded as the intellectual and spiritual foremother to a generation of black and women writers, Zora Neale Hurston's books were all out of print when she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960.
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JULY 2014 - ISSUE 147 Interesting and strong, a description that fits Nora Roberts herself. She's one of the top-selling authors in the world, with more than 400 million books in print and legions of devoted fans who can't seem to get enough of her strong, independent heroines.
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Kate Chopin Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of the feminist authors of the 20th century of Southern or Catholic background, such as Zelda Fitzgerald.
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10 Famous Females Who Used Male Pen names 1 Charlotte Bronte: As the author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte is one of the most celebrated female novelists in all of history. 2  Many, however, do not realize that this quintessential English novel was originally written under a male pen name. 3  Charlotte Bronte published her works under the name Currer Bell.
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Julia Gnuse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Julia Gnuse (guh-NOO-see), commonly known by the nickname The Illustrated Lady, born in 1955, has 95% of her body (including her face) covered in tattoos and holds the Guinness Record for being the most tattooed woman in the world. In her mid 30s, Gnuse developed porphyria, a condition in which sunlight results in blistering of the skin.
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- From April 2016, the government will introduce a new mandatory National Living Wage (. ) for workers aged 25 and above, initially set at £7.20 – a rise of 70p relative to the current National Minimum Wage (. ) rate, and 50p above the increase coming into force in October.
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Nikola Tesla From her arrival in Hollywood in 1939 until 1945, Greer Garson was one of the most famous women in the world. She received Academy Award nominations every year except for 1941 for a total of six.
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Debbie Macomber Books Skip to content. Surviving against all odds to become a writer can be best exemplified by Debbie Macomber, who is today one of the most heartthrob American authors. Born in 1948 in Yakima, Washington with dyslexia, she couldn’t read until the age of 12 and didn’t continue education after leaving high school.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known as a chronicler of the 1920s and as the writer who, more than any other, identified, delineated, and popularized the female representative of that era, the flapper.