Women Writers
Below is a list of some of the female authors whose works are to be found at the Library.
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- Penelope Aubin (1679-1738)
- Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
- Frances Brooke (1724-1789)
- Mary Brunton (1778-1818)
- Frances Burney (1752-1840)
- Sarah Burney (1772-1844)
- Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
- Sarah Fielding (1710-1768)
- Mary Hays (1760-1824)
- Eliza Haywood (1693-1756)
- Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
- Sophia Lee (1750-1824)
- Harriet Lee (1757-1851)
- Charlotte Lennox (1729-1804)
- Delarivier Manley (1663-1724)
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu(1689-1762)
- Sydney Owenson,Lady Morgan(1783-1859)
- Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
- Mary Darby Robinson (1758-1800)
- Anna Seward (1742-1809)
- Mary Shelley(1797-1851)
- Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
- Elizabeth Byron Strutt (1805-1863)
- Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench (1768-1827)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
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