female novelists
She writes fiction
Female novelists are women who write novels.
The phrase appears in literary criticism, publishing, and academic contexts, often when discussing gender disparities in recognition or readership: Female novelists were long excluded from the canon.
Some find the modifier unnecessary—one rarely hears "male novelists"—viewing it as marking women as exceptions to a male default.
- women's voicesSpeech from adult females
- chick litBreezy women's fiction genre
- book clubsOrganizations discussing shared literature
- Jane AustenRegency-era English novelist
- feminist movementsCollective action for gender equality
Victorian literature · unreliable narrator · Virginia Woolf · Mary Shelley · Toni Morrison · Emily Brontë · Charlotte Brontë · Brontë sisters · magical realism · Margaret Atwood · Harlem Renaissance · George Eliot · historical fiction · literary fiction · dystopian fiction · young adult fiction · Sylvia Plath · George Sand
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- women's fictionwomen's fiction, women writers, chick lit, women's narratives, authoresses
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- Japanese Women Writers
- German Women Writers
- Norwegian LiteratureHenrik Ibsen, A Dolls House, The Snowman, sagas, Nordic noir