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

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!

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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
 
2. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
3. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
 
4. The Awakening (A Women's Press Classic)
by Kate Chopin
 
5. Castle Rackrent
by Maria Edgeworth
 
6. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
 
7. The Revolt of Mother And Other Stories
by Mary E. Wilkins
 
8. Cranford (Penguin Classics)
by Elizabeth Gaskell
 
9. The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 
10. The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett
 
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Leila  
12. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
 
13. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
14. Robert Elsmere
by Humphry, Mrs. Ward
 
15. Nightwood
by Djuna Barnes
 
16. The Mandarins (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Simone de Beauvoir
 
17. Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Isak Dinesen
 
18. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
 
19. My Antonia (Enriched Classics)
by Willa Cather
 
20. The Last of Cheri by Colette
by Colette
 
21.
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Mother and Son
by I. Compton-Burnett
 
22.
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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
 
23.
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Barren Ground (Virago Modern Classics)
by Ellen Glasgow
 
24. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
 
25. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Shirley Jackson
 
26. The Stone Angel
by Margaret Laurence
 
27. The Ballad and the Source (Virago Modern Classics)
by Rosamond Lehmann
 
28. The Group
by Mary McCarthy
 
29. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
 
30. Bliss and Other Stories
by Katherine Mansfield
 
31.
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Children of the Albatross
by Anais Nin
 
32. The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel
by Flannery O'Connor
 
33. Yonnondio: From The Thirties
by Tillie Olsen
 
34. Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Modern Library)
by Katherine An Porter
 
35. Quartet (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Jean Rhys
 
36. Pointed Roofs. Pilgrimage
by Dorothy Miller Richardson
 
37. Edwardians (Virago Modern Classics)
by Vita Sackville-West
 
38. Bonjour Tristesse
by Francoise Sagan
 
39.
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Britannia Mews
by Margery Sharp
 
40.
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The Catherine Wheel
by Jean Stafford
 
41. Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
by Gertrude Stein
 
42. Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Sigrid Undset
 
43. Lolly Willowes Or The Loving Huntsman
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
 
44. Precious Bane
by Mary Webb
 
45. Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
 
46. Birds Fall Down
by Rebecca West
 
47. The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
 
48. To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
by Virginia Woolf
 
49. Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
 
50. After the War
by Alice Adams
 
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Created by Juliana on Nov 07, 2007.