female authors
Distaff literary creators
Writers who are women.
The phrase appears in discussions of literary history, publishing, and representation, often highlighting work by women in contexts where their contributions have been overlooked or undervalued: Female authors dominated the bestseller list that year.
The term can feel clinical or distancing; many prefer "women writers" or simply "writers."
- biographerOne who writes lives
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- Brontë sistersSibling authors from Haworth
- gothic novelFiction of gloom and mystery
- Jane AustenRegency-era English novelist
romance novel · memoirist · Virginia Woolf · feminist literature · essayist · poetess · confessional poetry · playwright · screenwriter · George Eliot · bluestocking · nom de plume · literary critic · literary canon · Sappho · short story writer · librettist · chick lit
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- Feminist Literaturefeminist fiction, women writers, feminist themes, feminist critique, Virginia Woolf
- gender mediagender representation, gender stereotypes, gender bias, media portrayal, media stereotypes
- Medieval Womenabbess, noblewoman, lady, queen, duchess
- women in literaturewomen writers, feminist literature, women's literature, heroines, tragic heroines