April 2009 Classic Women pre 1939

Classic Women (pre 1939)

Sappho - verse
Emily Bronte -Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre, Vilette, Shirley
Anne Bronte - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Emma, etc
George Eliot - Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda
Mae West - The Constant Sinner, She Done Him Wrong
Dorothy Parker - verse and short stories
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - verse
Emily Dickinson - verse
Christina Rossetti - verse
Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse, Orlando, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves
Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence
Henry Handel Richardson - The Getting of Wisdom
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Charlotte Turner Smith
Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Gertrude Stein
Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
Katherine Susannah Prichard - Coonaroo
Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
Katherine Mansfield - short stories
Djuna Barnes - Nightwood
Colette - Cheri

see also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Anthology_of_Literature_by_Women

We found a common theme for the older books - young women seeking direction from their religion.