ICONIC WOMEN: Novels, Biographies & Memoirs : The Inspiring Heroines in Fiction and Influencers of the Past

e-artnow presents to you the world's iconic women characters in fiction and the real-life heroines in this power-packed meticulously edited and formatted collection:

Fiction:

Camilla (Fanny Burney)

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)

The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov)

Hester (Margaret Oliphant)

Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis)

Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell)

The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)

The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen)

Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen)

The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner)

New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett)

A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter)

The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland)

My Ántonia (Willa Cather)

The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)

The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)

Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)

Sisters (Ada Cambridge)

Hagar (Mary Johnston)

Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley)

The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie)

Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)

Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley)

The Job (Sinclair Lewis)

Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)

The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)

The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)

Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber)

So Big (Edna Ferber)...

Memoirs:

Madame Vigée Lebrun

Jane Austen

Caroline Herschel

Mrs. Seacole

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My Own Story (Emmeline Pankhurst)

Mother Jones

Margaret Sanger

Helen Keller

Biographies:

Lucretia

Sappho

Aspasia of Cyrus

Portia

Octavia

Cleopatra

Mariamne

Julia Domna

Zenobia

Valeria

Hypatia

The Lady Rowena

Roswitha the Nun

Marie de France

Laura de Sade

Joan of Arc

Catharine of Arragon

Anne Boleyn

Margaret Roper

Mary, Queen of Scots

The Pocahontas

Queen Anne

Maria Theresa

Marie Antoinette

Florence Nightingale

Maria Mitchell

Harriet Tubman

Madame de Stael…

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Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence in Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American novelist—the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921—as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Her other works include Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Roman Fever and Other Stories. Born into one of New York’s elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper-class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
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Jane Austen
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Charlotte Brontë
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is best known for Little Women (1868), which is loosely based on her own life and proved to be one of the most popular children’s books ever written. Three sequels followed: Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo’s Boys (1886). Alcott was the daughter of the famous transcendentalist Bronson Alcott and was friend of Emerson and Thoreau. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher, governess, and Civil War nurse, as well as being an advocate of abolition, women’s rights, and temperance. She died in 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Henry James
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Leo Tolstoy
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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Helen Keller
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