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Juliana's "19th & 20th Century Fiction: Female Authors"

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This list was compiled from an extensive book list called 19th and 20th Century Fiction by Women Writers, which can be found here: http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/womensfiction.html.
It includes some of the most entertaining, influential novels of the past two centuries, all written by the girls we know and love. The link includes the list grouped by eras, and then divided alphabetically by author. It also offers a one-line description of each novel. Credit to Madison Public Library for compiling the list.

The website has several other interesting booklists you might like to check out. Click under the "fiction" tag to find lists similar to this one. Happy reading, everyone!

  1. 1.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
    by Kate Chopin

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    Castle Rackrent
    by Maria Edgeworth

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    The Revolt of Mother And Other Stories
    by Mary E. Wilkins

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    Cranford (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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    The Yellow Wallpaper
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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    The Country of the Pointed Firs
    by Sarah Orne Jewett

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    Leila

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    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    Robert Elsmere
    by Humphry, Mrs. Ward

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    Nightwood
    by Djuna Barnes

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    The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Simone de Beauvoir

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    Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Isak Dinesen

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    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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    My Antonia (Enriched Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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    The Last of Cheri by Colette
    by Colette

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    Mother and Son
    by I. Compton-Burnett

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    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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    Barren Ground (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Ellen Glasgow

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    The Stone Angel
    by Margaret Laurence

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    The Ballad and the Source (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Rosamond Lehmann

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    The Group
    by Mary McCarthy

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

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    Bliss and Other Stories
    by Katherine Mansfield

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    Children of the Albatross
    by Anais Nin

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    The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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    Yonnondio: From The Thirties
    by Tillie Olsen

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    Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Modern Library)
    by Katherine An Porter

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    Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Jean Rhys

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    Pointed Roofs. Pilgrimage
    by Dorothy Miller Richardson

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    Edwardians (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Vita Sackville-West

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    Bonjour Tristesse
    by Francoise Sagan

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    Britannia Mews
    by Margery Sharp

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    The Catherine Wheel
    by Jean Stafford

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    Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
    by Gertrude Stein

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    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset

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    Lolly Willowes Or The Loving Huntsman
    by Sylvia Townsend Warner

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    Precious Bane
    by Mary Webb

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    Delta Wedding
    by Eudora Welty

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    Birds Fall Down
    by Rebecca West

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    The House of Mirth
    by Edith Wharton

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    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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    Memoirs of Hadrian
    by Marguerite Yourcenar

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    After the War
    by Alice Adams

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  50. 51.
    Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

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    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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    Until the Real Thing Comes Along
    by Elizabeth Berg

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    Scarlet Feather
    by Maeve Binchy

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    Where You Belong
    by Barbara Taylor Bradford

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    Half a Heart
    by Rosellen Brown

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    The Gates of Ivory
    by Margaret Drabble

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  57. 58.
    The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel
    by Louise Erdrich

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    Like Water For Chocolate
    by Laura Esquivel

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    Charms for the Easy Life (P.S.)
    by Kaye Gibbons

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    STARCARBON.
    by Ellen. Gilchrist

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    Evensong
    by Gail Godwin

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    Disobedience : A Novel
    by JANE HAMILTON

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    Ella in Bloom
    by Shelby Hearon

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    The River King
    by Alice Hoffman

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    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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    Mara and Dann: An Adventure
    by Doris Lessing

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    Final Vinyl Days: And Other Stories
    by Jill McCorkle

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    Charming Billy
    by Alice McDermott

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    A Day Late and a Dollar Short
    by Terry McMillan

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    Feather Crowns
    by Bobbie Ann Mason

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    While I Was Gone
    by Sue Miller

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    Sleeping Beauties
    by Susanna Moore

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    Toni Morrison's Paradise (MAXnotes)
    by David M. Gracer

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    Leave It to Me (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Bharati Mukherjee

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    The Green Knight
    by Iris Murdoch

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    Faithless: Tales of Transgression
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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    Three Women: A Novel
    by Marge Piercy

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    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx

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    The Weight of Water
    by Anita Shreve

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    Nora, Nora
    by Siddons Anne Rivers

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    Horse Heaven
    by Jane Smiley

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    Aiding and Abetting: A Novel
    by Muriel Spark

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    Marrying the Mistress
    by Joanna Trollope

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    Back When We Were Grownups
    by Anne Tyler

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    The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
    by Alice Walker

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    Rhode Island Blues
    by Fay Weldon

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Created by Juliana on Nov 07, 2007.