List of Women Writers - C

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• Meg Cabot (born 1967), American author. The Princess Diaries
• Caroline Caddy (born 1944), Australian poet.
• Florence Caddy (1837–1923), English writer.
• Cai Wenji (born 177), Chinese poet and composer.
• Mona Caird (c. 1854–1932), Scottish novelist and essayist.
• Hortense Calisher (1911–2009), American writer.
• Maria Callcott (1785–1842), English author of children's books and travel writings.
• Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006), American novelist.
• Marion May Campbell (born 1948), Australian novelist and academic.
• Dorothy Canfield (1879–1958), American author. Understood Betsy
• May Wedderburn Cannan (1893–1973), British poet.
• Minna Canth (1844–1897), Finnish writer and social activist.
• Lan Cao (born 1961), Vietnamese American writer.
• Jacqueline Carey (born 1964), American fantasy novelist. Kushiel's Legacy
• Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840–1909), English novelist and children's writer.
• Leonora Carrington (born 1917), British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist.
• Angela Carter (1940–1992), English novelist and journalist. Nights at the Circus, The Bloody Chamber
• Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet, writer and Bluestocking.
• Alice Cary (1820–1871), American poet, sister of Phoebe Cary.
• Elizabeth Cary (1585–1639), English playwright. The Tragedy of Mariam
• Phoebe Cary (1824–1871), American poet, sister of Alice Cary.
• Kathryn Casey, American true crime author, novelist and journalist.
• P. C. Cast (1960), American author. House of Night
• Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974), Mexican poet and author.
• Ana Castillo (born 1953), Mexican-American novelist, poet, short story writer and essayist.
• Elisabeth Castonier (1894–1975), German-born children's writer and journalist writing in German and English.
• Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), Galician writer and poet.
• Willa Cather (1873–1947), Pulitzer Prize winning American author. My Ántonia, O Pioneers!
• Catherine of Bologna (1413–1463), Italian religious writer and saint.
• Catherine of Genoa (St. Catherine, 1447–1510), Genoese writer and mystic.
• Catherine of Ricci (1522–1590), Italian religious writer and saint.
• Jane Cavendish (1620/21–1669), English poet and playwright.
• Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), English poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, and writer of fiction. The Blazing World
• Susannah Centlivre (1667–1723), English playwright and poet.
• Laura Cereta (1469–1499), Italian humanist.
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982), American novelist and artist. Dictee
• Françoise Chandernagor (born 1945), French novelist and playwright.
• Elizabeth Margaret Chandler (1807–1834), American poet and writer; first woman writer in America to make the abolition of slavery her principal theme.
• Diana Chang (born 1934), Chinese American novelist and poet.
• Hester Chapone (1727–1801), English writer and Bluestocking.
• Charlotte Charke (1713–1760), English actress, playwright, novelist, and autobiographer.
• Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805), French novelist.
• Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938), popular Russian novelist.
• Noëlle Châtelet (born 1944), French essayist, novelist and story writer.
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904–1948), Indian poet famous for her emotionally charged Hindi songs.
• Daína Chaviano (born 1960), Cuban writer. The Island of Eternal Love
• Mavis Cheek (born c. 1948), English novelist.
• Ying Chen (born 1961), Chinese Canadian author.
• Helmina von Chézy (1783–1856), German poet, playwright and librettist.
• C. J. Cherryh (born 1942), American sci-fi and fantasy author. Downbelow Station, Cyteen
• Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880), American poet, novelist and journalist. Over the River and through the Woods
• Mei Chin (born 1977), American writer and food critic.
• Paulina Chiziane (born 1955), Mozambiquean novelist and short story writer.
• Joanna Chmielewska (born 1932) Polish writer.
• Pema Chödrön (born 1936), American Buddhist author.
• Mary Cholmondeley (1859–1925), English novelist.
• Kate Chopin (1851–1904), American novelist and short story writer. The Awakening
• Helene Christaller (1872–1953), German children's novelist.
• Kate Christensen (1962), American novelist. In The Drink, Jeremy Thrane, The Great Man
• Agatha Christie (1890–1976), British crime writer. The Mousetrap, The Seven Dials Mystery
• Chrystos (born 1946), Menominee rights activist and poet.
• Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656–1710), English poet, essayist and writer. The Ladies' Defence
• Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996), Soviet/Russian writer. Sofia Petrovna
• Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991), Indian Urdu writer.
• Caryl Churchill (born 1938), English playwright. A Mouthful of Birds
• Sandra Cisneros (born 1954), American novelist and short story writer. The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
• Hélène Cixous (born 1937), Algerian-born French poet, playwright and philosopher.
• Amy Clampitt (1920–1994), American poet and author.
• Mary Higgins Clark (born 1927), American suspense novelist. A Stranger is Watching, A Cry in the Night
• Amy Key Clarke (1892–1980), English mystical poet, author and teacher.
• Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator.
• Margareta Clausdotter (died 1486), Swedish writer and abbess.
• Beverly Cleary (born 1916), American author. The Mouse and the Motorcycle
• Kate McPhelim Cleary (1863–1905), American novelist and story writer.
• Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797–1872), French novelist and playwright.
• Cleobulina (fl. c. 550 BC), Greek poet.
• Michelle Cliff (born 1946), Jamaican-American author. No Telephone to Heaven
• Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), American poet, writer and educator.
• Caroline Clive (1801–1872), English poet and novelist.
• Catherine Clive (Kitty, 1711–1785), English actress and dramatist.
• Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born 1966), American novelist. What You Won't Do for Love
• Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), American poet.
• Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904), Irish writer and suffragist.
• Alice Rollit Coe (1858–1940), Canadian-American author.
• Gabrielle de Coignard (1550–1586), French poet.
• Frona Eunice Wait Colburn (1859–1946) American journalist, author of short stories and books.
• Norma Cole (born 1945), American poet, visual artist, and translator.
• Wanda Coleman (born 1946), American poet.
• Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), English novelist and editor.
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), English novelist and poet.
• Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), English writer and translator.
• Colette (1873–1954), French novelist. Gigi
• Vittoria Colonna (1490–1547), Italian poet and marchioness.
• Mary Colum (1884–1957), Irish literary critic and author.
• Anne Compton (born 1947), Canadian poet, critic, and anthologist.
• Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969), English novelist. Pastors and Masters
• Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934), poet and professor of English literature.
• Consort Ban (Ban Jieyu, Lady Pan, c. 48—c. 6 BC), Chinese scholar and poet.
• Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet.
• Marvel Cooke (1903–2000), American journalist and writer.
• Elizabeth Cook-Lynn(born 1930), Crow Creek Lakota Sioux editor, essayist, poet, novelist, and academic. Wíčazo Ša Review
• Ina Coolbrith (born Josephine Anna Smith) (1841–1928), first poet laureate of California, first public librarian in California.
• Wendy Cope (born 1945), English poet.
• Esther Copley (1786–1851), English religious and children's writer.
• Marguerite Coppin (1867–1931) woman Poet Laureate of Belgium.
• Marie Corelli (1855–1924), English novelist.
• Corinna (Κόριννα, 6th c. BC), Greek poet.
• Cornificia (c. 85–c. 40 BC), Roman poet and writer of epigrams.
• Caroline Cornwallis (1786–1858), English writer on education, philosophy and science.
• Jane Cornwallis (1581–1659), English letter writer.
• Patricia Cornwell (born 1956), American crime writer. Body of Evidence, Cruel and Unusual
• Anita Cornwell (born 1923), American author.
• Jayne Cortez (born 1936), American poet and performance artist.
• Sophie Ristaud Cottin (1770–1807), French novelist.
• Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950), German novelist.
• Arlette Cousture (born 1948), Canadian writer.
• Dani Couture (born 1978), Canadian poet and novelist.
• Hannah Cowley (1743–1809), English playwright and poet.
• Dinah Mulock Craik (1826–1887), English novelist. John Halifax, Gentleman
• Margaret Craven (1901–1980), American novelist. I Heard the Owl Call My Name
• Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), Canadian poet.
• Hélisenne de Crenne (1510–1552), French novelist, epistolary writer and translator.
• M. T. C. Cronin (born 1963), Australian writer.
• Elsa Cross (born 1946), Mexican poet and essayist.
• Catherine Crowe (1800–1876), English dramatist, novelist, and author of children's books.
• Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975), Scottish poet writing in Braid Scots and English.
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695), Mexican poet and playwright.
• Maria Susanna Cummins (1827–1866), American novelist. The Lamplighter
• Dymphna Cusack (1902—1981), Australian author. Come In Spinner
• Julie E. Czerneda (born 1955), Canadian sci-fi and fantasy author.
• Mary Crow Dog (born 1953), Native American writer and activist. Lakota Woman