List of Modernist Women Writers

This is a partial list of modernist women writers.

  • Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Russian poet
  • Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean-American novelist
  • Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc.
  • Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer
  • Mary Butts (1890–1937), British novelist
  • Kate Chopin (1851–1904), American novelist, short story writer
  • H.D. (1886–1961), American poet, novelist, memoirist
  • Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), British novelist, poet
  • Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright, memoirist
  • Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981), Australian poet
  • Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), American novelist
  • Marie-Elena John (b. 1963), Antiguan novelist, Africanist
  • Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet
  • Mina Loy (1882-1966), British poet
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American poet
  • Marianne Moore (1887-1972), American poet and essayist
  • Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994), Argentine poet, short-fiction writer
  • Jean Rhys (1890-1979), Caribbean novelist
  • Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957). British novelist
  • Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic
  • Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American poet, playwright, essayist, etc.
  • Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, short story writer
  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, short-fiction writer

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