The female writers the canon has “forgotten” about (or wilfully ignored / pushed out / side tracked)
created by BeautyOfLiterature
last updated April, 2026
Trieste
Daša Drndić
Tropismes
Nathalie Sarraute
Bad Attitudes
Agnes Owens
The Pursuit of Love (Radlett & Montdore, #1)
Nancy Mitford
Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
Dorothy L. Sayers
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
Mariana
Monica Dickens
Corregidora
Gayl Jones
Quicksand
Nella Larsen
Passing
Recollections of Things to Come (Texas Pan American Series)
Elena Garro
Voyage in the Dark
Jean Rhys
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Fitzgerald
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