Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Spiritualists
• Activists
• Humanistics > Archaeologists
• Writers

Stockholm, 12-07-1923 — Benidorm, 21-01-2021

Review: She was one of the first women to direct archaeological excavations in the province of Alicante, at a time and in a very masculine professional world. She contributed significantly, despite her early retirement from archaeology, to research on anti...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

6th century BCE; b. Argos

Review: Telesilla was a lyrical poet of hymnic-religious or mythical themes, from the year 510 BC, who created the telesillean verse and fought against Cleomenes I in the Battle of Sepeia. The _Hybristika_ festival arose from this confrontation. She claime...

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Abbesses
• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Clerical or spiritual women > Mystics
• Clerical or spiritual women > Theologists
• Technologists > Architects
• Scientists > Natural philosophers / Naturalists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Scientists > Biologists
• Scientists > Geologists / Geophysicists
• Healthcare workers > Physicians
• Healthcare workers > Pharmacists
• Healthcare workers > Herbalists
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Educators > School teachers
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science
• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Orators
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Illuminators (books)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Cultural agents
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers

Bermersheim, 16-09-1098 — Bingen, 17-09-1179

Review: She was one of the most versatile and influential women of the Middle Ages in 12th century Western Europe. She was a mystic, an abbess, a theologian, writer of an extensive collection of letters, religious texts and scientific books on plants and m...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Humanistics > Philosophers
• Educators > School teachers
• Educators
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Popularisers of science

b. Crotona — d. c. 500 BCE

Review: Theano of Crotone made important contributions to Mathematics. Being married to Pythagoras, she developed treatises about regular polyhedrons, the golden ratio theory, cosmology and medicine. After Pythagoras' death, she moved on to run her own sch...

Groups by dedication:

• Clerical or spiritual women > Nuns
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > in > Latin

Between 930 and 935 — c. 1002

Review: Hroswitha was a 10th-century German writer, considered to be the first Western author, male or female, to write plays in Latin since Late Antiquity. She was the author of comedies, in the manner of Terence, of great literary quality and centred on ...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Mytilene, Lesbos, between 650 and 610 BCE — Leucas, 580 BCE

Review: Born on the island of Lesbos, she is considered one of the first lyrical poets of the Western world. All that is known of her life was deduced from the work that has come down to us: poems and fragments drawn from late citations (indirect tradition...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

6th century BCE; b. Lindos (Rodas)

Review: Poetess born around 600 BC in the city of Lindos (Rhodes). She was the daughter of Cleobulus, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, who believed that women should receive a good education. She composed a kind of riddles in verse called “enigmas”, very ...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Between 550 and 450 BCE; b. Sicyon, Greece

Review: Praxila is, along with Sappho, Telesila of Argos and many other women poets of ancient Greece, a representative of women's poetry within the framework of archaic lyric poetry. She invented a new dactylic metre, the praxillium, and was highly valued...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Tanagra; b. 520 BCE

Review: Female author of popular poetry, both monodic and choral poems, noted for her great knowledge of local mythology. She is related to the poetess Mirtis, whose pupil she may have been, or to the poet Pindar, with whom she may have rivalled. Her datin...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > (Ancient) Greek

Telos; 4th century BCE

Review: Lyrical poetess, precursor of Hellenistic poetry. Her style and command of hexameters, as well as her language, Doric, make her heiress of the Hippocratic or Coan school, where she probably studied. In her work, the influence of the great poetess S...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists

Gloucestershire, 11-05-1828 — St Albans, 19-07-1901

Review: She published reports and leaflets with advice and illustrations which, like Maria Sibylla Merian, she drew herself. Her drawings helped farmers and stockbreeders to identify harmful insects and the effects they produced. Despite this, she always s...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Astronomers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers

Wendover, United Kingdom, 10-05-1900 — Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, 7-12-1979

Review: Cecilia Payne was an Anglo-American astrophysicist who discovered the composition of stars. At the age of 24, in her thesis in 1925, she identified the amount of hydrogen and helium present in stars and proposed, for the first time, that stars were...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers

Medingenai (Lithuania), 08-03-1887 — Zidikai (Lithuania), 24-07-1930

Review: She is considered the pioneer of feminism in Lithuania. She believed the education of women and girls to be one of the primary responsibilities of her life. And while there was a relatively modest way, the Witch of Shatriya had enough ambition and ...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Catalan

Palma (Mallorca), 1827 — Barcelona, 1898

Review: She was one of the first writers of the Renaissance, a professional poetess, with a continuous and consolidated career. Her extensive production was recognized by her contemporaries and she was granted awards at the Floral Games in Barcelona on num...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Educators
• Writers

Panevezys (Lithuania); 16-03-1861 — 14-06-1943

Review: Gabrielė was a Lithuanian educator, writer, and activist. Her pseudonym Bitė (Bee) eventually became part of her last name. Encouraged by Povilas Višinskis, she joined public life and started her writing career in 1890. She was the founder and chai...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Pacifists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Biographers

New Rochelle, New York, 20-04-1892 — Roma (Italy), 24-01-1970

Review: Mary Phelps Jacob, better known as Caresse Crosby, is considered the inventor of the first bra that she patented in 1914, which was light, soft and comfortable, could be worn by women of different sizes and made it easier to practice sports that in...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Humanistics > Economists
• Humanistics > Sociologists

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, 22-01-1858 — Liphook, United Kingdom, 30-04-1943

Review: Beatrice Webb Potter researched inequalities and socialism that intended to finish with labour exploitation from a young age. Along with her husband, she wrote about cooperativism, syndicalism and the decline of capitalism. They took part in the Fa...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > Lithuanian
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Actresses
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Directors (performing arts)
• Writers > Story writers > Novelists

Kaunas, Lithuania, 12-08-1923 — Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-09-2007

Review: Pūkelevičiūtė said that she was not a “purebred” writer: “literature is my official husband” and theatre is my “lover”. She attended a drama studio and studied at the Conservatory in Kaunas, the capital of independent Lithuania, and made her succes...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > in > Lithuanian
• Plastic, visual and performing artists
• Writers > Story writers

Vilnius, Lithuania, 11-04-1966

Review: In 2017, Pukytė curated the 11th Kaunas Biennial, an international exhibition of site-specific monuments and non-traditional commemoration. In her visual art practice, she creates still and moving images and interventions, making use of the uncover...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Story writers

El Pla del Penedès, 16-02-1988

Review: In her stories she addresses various topics such as disillusionment, frustration, fear, sadness, anger, hatred, resentment or revenge and gives voice to narrative voices of different generations. Her fight against gender violence is portrayed in a ...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Biochemists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics

Prague (Czech Republic), 15-08-1896 — Sant louis Misuri (USA), 26-10-1957

Review: Her works include the study of the enzymatic reactions that accompany the conversion of muscle glycogen into glucose, pyruvic acid and lactic acid (Cori cycle), the effects of hormones on enzymatic activity and the isolation for the first time of a...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > (Modern) Greek
• Writers > Poets

Athens; 19-06-1931 — 22-02-2020

Review: Literary critics include her in the second post-war generation, but she rejects labels and epithets. She has been compared to Emily Dickinson and called "the greatest Greek poet since Sappho" (Nikos Dimou), but she has an unclassifiable voice of he...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers
• Writers > in > Lithuanian

Panevezys, Lithuania, 1960

Review: Giedra Radvilavičiūtė has started an innovative trend in women’s prose: she personifies everyday life, opens the female world and merges all this with the intertexts of serious culture. Her texts contain an unparalleled authenticity and exciting su...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Technologists > Librarians
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists > Lexicographers
• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Educators > School teachers

Barcelona, 01-07-1913 — Sant Feliu de Llobregat, 04-12-2013

Review: This author stands out for her contribution to children's and young adults' literature, in particular for bringing poetry closer to children. Besides, she also wrote dramas and narrative, and she collaborated in regional publication and theatre gro...

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Philologists / Linguists
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Scriptwriters

Palma, 1948

Review: Carme Riera is one of the most relevant figures of current Catalan literature. This author stands out because of the high quality of her production, in which she combines literary creation with research and education, always framed within the conte...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters

Barcelona, 10-10-1908 — Girona, 13-04-1983

Review: She was a well-rounded writer: she cultivated all literary genres, on top of journalism.  Mercè Rodoreda initiated her literary production with short stories and novels that, except for _Aloma,_ she would later reject. Between 1940 and 1950, while ...

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Empresses / Queens / Noblewomen
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > Epistolographers

Valencia, c. 1479 — Madrid, 1546

Review: Hipòlita Roís de Liori, known as "the Sad countess of Palamós", as she signed her letters, was a noble from Aragon. She was the widow of Lluís de Requesens, governor of Catalonia, and she had two children. She lived in Valencia and Barcelona. She w...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Astronomers
• Writers > in > English

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), 23-07-1928 — New Jersey (USA), 25-12-2016

Review: Astronomer from the United States, pioneer in measuring the rotation of stars within a galaxy, discovered that the velocities did not fit Newton's gravitational theory. Her work provided the first evidence for the existence of dark matter, which wa...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists

New York, 22-02-1937 — Tucson, 29-04-2011

Review: American writer and essayist, Joanna Russ was known for her science fiction and fantasy novels and stories, as well as for her essays and social activism dedicated to feminism. As a professor at the University of Washington, Russ won through her ca...

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Historians
• Writers

Vilnius, Lithuania, 01-01-1974

Review: Kristina Sabaliauskaitė is a representative of Lithuanian or Lithuania-related historical fiction along with Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė, Vincas Pietaris, Ursula Wong, Grigory Kanovich, Kazys Boruta, Sigitas Parulskis, Antanas Šileika, Icc...

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Epistolographers
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Autobiographers

Palma, Mallorca, 04-11-1869 — Llucmajor, Mallorca, 29-01-1958

Review: Salvà began composing poems in Catalan at the age of fourteen in the midst of the Renaissance and the recovery of the language. She is part of the Escola mallorquina which honoured her for her quality. She continued to write in the midst of the Nou...

Groups by dedication:

• Humanistics > Historians
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Madrid, 23-06-1921 — València, 22-02-2009

Review: Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas is one of the benchmarks of post-war literature in Catalan language and, despite her invisibility and the difficulty to access her work over many years, her complete work has already been published (2021). _Mat èria de Br...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Dressmakers / Fashion designers

Roma (Italia), 10-10-1890 — París (Francia), 13-11-1973

Review: Her dedication to fashion made her one of the most recognized and famous designers of the 20th century. Her models were considered daring and surprising for the canons of her time, since many of them included extravagant elements. In addition to dr...

Groups by dedication:

• Rulers > Politicians
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Technologists > Architects
• Technologists > Object designers
• Writers > Autobiographers

Viena (Austro-Hungarian Empire), 23-01-1897 — Viena (Austria), 18-01-2000

Review: She designed the Frankfurt kitchen, a modular kitchen to allow efficient working and to be built at a low cost.

Groups by dedication:

• Writers

Detroit (USA), 17-11-1967

Review: Ruta Sepetys (also known as Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is Number one in the New York Times, an international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal. She is a...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Plastic, visual and performing artists

Badalona, 22-03-1990

Review: Maria Sevilla, poet, _performer_ and literary critic, is the author of three collections of poems and a plaquet. Her poetry reflects, above all, on the construction and representation of identities and on a series of contemporary violences, many of...

Groups by dedication:

• Travellers / Expeditionaries > Travellers
• Humanistics > Intellectuals
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Biographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

London; 30-08-1797 — 01-02-1851

Review: Mary Shelley was a 19th-century British writer who wrote in the Romantic movement. She wrote novels, short stories, travelogues, biographies and poems, and she was also an editor. She is known worldwide for her novel _Frankenstein_ , which today is...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Pacifists
• Educators > Teachers / Lecturers / Professors
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Story writers
• Writers > Dramatists / Playwrights
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Newsreaders
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Communicators

Alcoi, 04-04-1943 — Barcelona, 13-01-2020

Review: Isabel-Clara Simó i Montllor was a Valencian novelist, teacher, journalist and activist settled in Catalonia. She started her literary career in 1978, when she won the Víctor Català Prize with her story collection _É s quan miro que hi veig clar_ a...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Poets

Priekule (Lithuania), 23-01-1897 — Vilnius (Lithuania), 27-11-1978

Review: Ieva Simonaitytė is a representative of the Mažoji Lietuva region (Small Lithuania - one of the regions in Lithuania) who felt the moral duty to become a chronicler of her native land. The writer of fascinating biography and strong character immort...

Groups by dedication:

• Musicians > Composers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Literary, music, etc. critics
• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists

Sidcup (Kent), 22-04-1858 — Hook Heath (Woking), 08-05-1944

Review: English composer, writer and activist. Although persistently ignored by the musical canon, she was a significant and vital voice on the British scene of her time. She was acclaimed for her music, her highly controversial autobiographical writings, ...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Essayists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Columnists
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers > Communicators
• Humanistics > Feminists (intellectuals)

Ohio, 25-03-1934

Review: Gloria Steinem is a leading American feminist who represents an active part of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States from the end of the 20th century to the present. She was the founder of the women's magazine _Ms._ which was a windo...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists > Geneticists
• Writers > Essayists

Cavendish, Vermont, 07-07-1861 — Baltimore, 04-05-1912

Review: Nettie Maria Stevens, American geneticist (1861-1912) was the first researcher to describe the chromosomal bases that determine sex.  She discovered, from her research with the beetle _Tenebrio molitor,_ that chromosomes known as X and Y were res...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Writers > in > Latin

1st century BCE; b. Roma

Review: Sulpicia lived in Rome during the reign of Augustus, she was the daughter of the orator Servius Sulpicius Rufus and the niece of Marcus Valerius Messalla. She frequented intellectual circles and is the only Roman poetess of the Classical period who...

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Writers > Essayists

Dunstable (Massachusetts), 03-12-1842 — Massachusetts, 30-03-1911

Review: She was the first woman to be member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. She worked as a consultant in industrial chemistry and conducted some research on water pollution and on the provision of potable water in a new l...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Scientists > Astronomers
• Scientists > Physicists
• Writers > in > English

Lancaster, 04-07-1868 — Cambridge, 12-12-1921

Review: By studying the Cepheid variables in the Small Magellanic Cloud, which are all approximately the same distance from Earth, Henrietta Swan Leavitt determined in 1908 the absolute magnitude of stars. Her studies concluded that these stars changed bri...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > Poets
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Painters
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Sculptresses
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Stage designers

Galesburg (Illinois), 1910 — Nueva York, 2012

Review: She gained recognition as a painter and sculptor. Her erotic images broke the cliché of women reduced to the role of muses for creators. Returning to her home country, Tanning had the encouragement of poet James Merrill to start writing. The artis...

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Engineers
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Physicists
• Scientists > Chemists
• Scientists > Biologists > Biophysicists
• Writers > in > English

Budapest (Hungary); 12-12-1900 — 02-12-1995

Review: Mária Telkes was a prolific inventor of thermoelectric devices, known for being a pioneer in the development of solar technology. She devised a solar heating system for the Dover House, an innovative home designed by architect Eleanor Raymond (1887...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Writers > Poets

18th century

Review: The work, in Catalan, of this poetess that lived in the 18th century integrates into the so-called laudatory poetry of preliminaries, where a remarkable number of women at the Iberian peninsula contributed among the 16th and 18th centuries. The lau...

Groups by dedication:

• Scientists > Biologists
• Writers

Barcelona, 25-08-1956

Review: Anna Veiga Lluch is a biologist, researcher and university lecturer, specialising in assisted reproduction, clinical embryology, reproductive genetics and bioethics, as well as in the study of stem cells and their clinical applications in the treat...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers
• Writers > Story writers

Lazdijai (Lithuania), 16-02-1943 — Alytus (Lithuania), 11-10-2014

Review: She was born into the family of a veterinarian in 1943. From 1960-1965 she studied Lithuanian language and literature at the Faculty of History and Philology of Vilnius University. Despite the usual canons of the genre, Vilimaitė immediately create...

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Biologists > Zoologists
• Plastic, visual and performing artists > Graphic artists
• Writers > Essayists

Juillac; 24-09-1794 — 25-01-1871

Review: She can be considered a marine biologist and naturalist. She was the first person to use aquariums for research in marine environments. She created different aquariums with various materials depending on the size of the molluscs under study. She pr...

Groups by dedication:

• Activists
• Musicians > Composers
• Musicians > Instrumentalists
• Musicians > Singers
• Musicians > Music arrangers

Tyron, North Carolina, 21-02-1933 — Carry-le-Rouet, 21-04-2003

Review: Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist and civil rights activist. Her eclectic oeuvre includes the genres of jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and soul.

Groups by dedication:

• Activists > Feminists (activists)
• Activists > Suffragettes / Suffragists
• Educators > School teachers
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers
• Professionals / Other groups > Businesswomen / Executives / Administrative managers
• Writers > in > English
• Writers > Orators
• Writers > Autobiographers
• Writers > Journalists / Chroniclers

Mississippi, 16-07-1862 — Illinois, 25-03-1935

Review: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, also known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist and activist. She was part of the suffrage movement and was co- founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dedicated to the defenc...

Groups by dedication:

• Technologists > Computer scientists
• Technologists > Inventors
• Scientists > Mathematicians
• Writers > in > English

Virginia EE.UU., 27-10-1930

Review: Gladys Mae West is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematics underlying Global Positioning Systems, better known by its acronym GPS (Global Positioning System). Her research is extremely useful for satellite geodesy. ...

Groups by dedication:

• Writers > in > Catalan
• Writers > Poets
• Writers > Translators
• Plastic, visual and performing artists
• Popularisers / Cultural promoters > Publishers

Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 12-04-1960 — Palamós, 19-1-2024

Review: Ester Xargay is a multifaceted author and a cultural agitator who has organized all kinds of _happenings_ and demonstrations in the public space. In her work, based on provocation, play and experimentation, the various forms of expression dialogue ...

• Aconia Fabia Paulina

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 384

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry

• Marija Biruté Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė (Marija Gimbutas)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 2002

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative

• Julija Benešivičiūtė (Žemaitė)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1889

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative
• Literature > Narrative > Novel

• Ana Caro Mallén de Torres

Types of works:

• Text
• Audiovisual

Date of production: 1640

Genres:

• Literature > Dramatic genre > Comedy
• Literature > Dramatic genre > New comedy

• Anna Comnena

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1148

Genres:

• Literature > * Literature for didactic purposes

• Cornelia (mother of the Gracchi)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 123 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Epistle / Letter

• Telesilla of Argos

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 500 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Theodora of Byzantium

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: Between 535 and 545

Genres:

• Literature > Didactic or educational literature

• Theano of Crotone

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 530 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Epistle / Letter

• Beatriz de Dia (Countess of Die)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1212

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry
• Literature > Poetry
• Literature

• Hroswitha of Gandersheim

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 955

Genres:

• Literature > Dramatic genre > Comedy

• Sappho of Lesbos (Sappho of Mytilene)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 600 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Cleobulina of Lindos

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 550 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry

• Praxilla of Sicyon

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 400 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Corinna of Tanagra

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 400 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Erinna of Telos

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 4th century BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Janina Degutytė

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1962

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Poetry

• Egeria

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 381

Genres:

• Literature > Narrative > Short story
• Literature > Autobiographical literature > Diary
• Literature > Epistle / Letter

• Hortensia

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 42 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Didactic or educational literature > Speech
• Literature

• Julia Balbilla

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 130

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Carme Karr i Alfonsetti (Joana Romeu; L’Escardot; Una liceista; Xènia.)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1907

Genres:

• Literature > Journalism > Article > Leading article

• Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė

Types of works:

• Text

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative
• Literature > Narrative > Short novel

• Metrodora

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: c. 2nd century

Genres:

• Literature > Didactic or educational literature > Treatise

• Chloe Anthony Morrison (Toni Morrison)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1987

Genres:

• Literature > Narrative
• Literature > Poetry
• Literature > Didactic or educational literature
• Literature > * Literature for didactic purposes

• Victòria Penya i Nicolau (Victòria Penya d’Amer)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1890

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Paulina Eglė Pukytė

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 2013

Genres:

• Literature > Narrative > Short story
• Literature > Narrative

• Vassiliki Radou (Kiki Dimoula)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1958

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry

• Giedra Radvilaviciute (Radvilavičiūtė)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 2013

Genres:

• Literature > Narrative
• Literature > Didactic or educational literature > Essay

• Joana Raspall i Juanola

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1998

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry
• Literature > * Children's and young adult literature

• Isabel-Clara Simó i Monllor

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1983

Genres:

• Literature > Narrative > Novel

• Ieva Simonaitytė

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 1936

Genres:

• Literature
• Literature > Narrative

• Sulpicia (the elegiac)

Types of works:

• Text

Date of production: 20 BCE

Genres:

• Literature > Poetry > Lyrical poetry
• Literature > Autobiographical literature > Diary
• Literature > Epistle / Letter
• Literature > Narrative > Short story