Influential Women Writers

Identify the female authors of the works listed

all authors in this quiz died prior to the twenty-first century

works may be poetry, prose, drama, fiction, non-fiction, etc.

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Work(s)	Author
The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu
The Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection	Saint Teresa of Ávila
Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck	Beatrix Potter
only fragments of her lyric poetry survive (mostly passionate homages to the charms of attractive young women)	Sappho
The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch	George Eliot
The Dream; Loa to Divine Narcissus; poetry in Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
The Pillow Book	Sei Shōnagon
Gods and Fighting Men (translation), A Book of Saints and Wonders	Lady Gregory
Lanval, Bisclavret, Laüstic	Marie de France
Northanger Abbey, Persuasion	Jane Austen
Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie

Work(s)	Author
Ariel, The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath
Frankenstein, The Last Man	Mary Shelley
The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
North and South, Wives and Daughters	Elizabeth Gaskell
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
Gaudy Night, The Nine Tailors	Dorothy L. Sayers
The Restlessness of the Rose, World of Seven Wells	Alfonsina Storni
Jane Eyre, Villette	Charlotte Brontë
My Brilliant Career, All That Swagger	Miles Franklin
Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum	Hildegard of Bingen