Category
page 119th-century American women novelists
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832–1888)
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

Mary Mapes Dodge
American children's writer (1831-1905)
Sarah Orne Jewett
American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849–1909)
Sarah Josepha Hale
American writer and editor (1788–1889)
Anna Katharine Green
novelist (1846-1935)
Helen Hunt Jackson
American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)
Susanna Rowson
English-born American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, educator, geographer (1762-1824)
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
American novelist, short story writer, poet, children's author (1852-1930)
Maria Susanna Cummins
American novelist (1827–1866)
Therese Albertine Luise Robinson
German-American writer (1797–1870)
Susan Warner
American writer (1819-1885)
Eliza Farnham
American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform
Constance Fenimore Woolson
American writer (1840-1894)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
American author, intellectual and feminist
Eliza Frances Andrews
American writer, botanist, and teacher (1840-1931)
Ann S. Stephens
American writer (1810–1886)
Susan Fenimore Cooper
American writer and amateur naturalist (1813-1894)

Margaret Deland
American writer and poet (1857–1945)
May French Sheldon
Novelist and translator
Catharine Sedgwick
American writer 1789-1867
Clarissa Allen
American author and educator (1859-1941)
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
United States poet and novelist (1823–1902)
Harriet E. Wilson
African-American novelist (1825-1900)
Fanny Fern
American writer (1811–1872)
Pauline Hopkins
American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor (1859-1930)
Clara Erskine Clement
American travel and history author
Anna Cora Mowatt
American actress and writer
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
author and Civil War nurse
Mary H. Eastman
American writer on Native American life, pro-slavery novelist
Alice Brown
American novelist, poet and playwright (1856-1948)
John Oliver Hobbes
American writer (1867–1906)
Anne Reeve Aldrich
American poet and novelist (1866-1892)
Myrtle Reed
American novelist and poet (1874-1911)
Metta Victoria Fuller
American writer (1831-1885)
Mary Abbott
American writer and golfer (1950-1904)
Beulah Marie Dix
American screenwriter, children's book author (1876-1970)
Caroline Lee Hentz
American author and educator (1800-1856)
E. D. E. N. Southworth
American writer (1819–1899)
Mabel Osgood Wright
American writer & ornithologist
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
American author

Elizabeth Jordan
American journalist (1865–1947)

Blanche Willis Howard
novelist (1847-1898)
Isabella Macdonald Alden
American writer (1841-1930)
Grace King
Novelist, biographer, historian (1852–1932)
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
American poet, author, journalist, editor 1838-1912
Mary Johnston
American novelist and women's rights advocate (1870-1936)
Mabel Loomis Todd
editor, writer and painter (1856-1932)
Mary Hallock Foote
American novelist, short story writer, illustrator (1847–1938)
Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
American writer
Austin Abbott
lawyer and academic born in Boston, Massachusetts (1831-1896)
Anne Hampton Brewster
American writer (1818-1892)
Varina Anne Davis
American writer (1864-1898)
Sarah E. Farro
American novelist
Mary C. Ames
American author (1831-1884)
Marietta Holley
American author
Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood
American author, socialite
Frances Fuller Victor
American historian, poet, novelist, and journalist (1826–1902)
Mary Ellen Bamford
American writer