female writers
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Female writers are women who write, especially professionally or as authors.
The phrase appears in discussions of literary history, publishing, and gender representation: Female writers were often excluded from the canon, The anthology features overlooked female writers.
Some find the term marked or reductive, preferring simply "writers" when gender isn't relevant to the context.
- biographerOne who writes lives
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- memoiristAuthor of personal recollections
- confessional poetryPoetry of raw personal revelation
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
poetess · playwright · diary · journalist · short story writer · chick lit · authoress · bluestocking · screenwriter · translator · literary critic · feminist voice · satirist · editor-in-chief · columnist · Victorian author · librettist · publisher
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- womenmothers, women, females, gals, daughters