Kate Chopin

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Louisa May Alcott

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Edith Wharton

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Jane Austen

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Katherine Mansfield

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Willa Cather

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Charlotte Bronte

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Emily Bronte

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Anna Akhmatova

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Grace MacGowan Cooke

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Gertrude Atherton

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Agatha Christie

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Richmal Crompton

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Mary Jane Holmes

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Sara Teasdale

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Anzia Yezierska

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Virginia Woolf

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Emily Dickinson

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Shirley Jackson

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Sarah Orne Jewett

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Susan Glaspell

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Swarnakumari Ghosal

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Amelia B. Edwards

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George Eliot

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Ethel M. Dell

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Evelyn Everett-Green

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Edna Ferber

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Mary Hallock Foote

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Kathleen Norris

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Dorothy Parker

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Beatrix Potter

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Mary Shelley

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Julia Ward Howe

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Laura E. Richards

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Elia W. Peattie

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Anna Sewell

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Margery Williams

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Johanna Spyri

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Phillis Wheatley

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Charlotte M. Yonge

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Ruth McEnery Stuart

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Netta Syrett

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