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Women Writers Posters & Prints, pg 2/10
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.
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educational posters > literature > Women Writers Posters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 < famous women alphabetical list < social studies
Notable women writers, authors, novelists, journalists, dramatists, poets list "B" with posters, prints, books, short bio info, links. |
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Joanna Baillie, poetess and dramatist, Giclee Print
b. 9-11-1762; Scotland
d. 2-23-1851
available at-
AllPosters.com
• Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie
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| Joanna Baillie was a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era and well known during her time. Her poetry ranged from songs and lyrical ballads to dramatic monologues and realistic blank verse poems relating to her youth in the Scottish countryside and her life in London. |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Giclee Print
b. 3-6-1806; England
d. 6-29-1861; Italy
available at-
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Art.com
• Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Robert Browning print
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Aphra Behn (nee Johnson), Giclee Print
b. 7-10-1640; England
d. 4-16-1689
available at-
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• Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works
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| Alphra Behn is considered to be one the first woman to earn a living by writing in England. Aphra Behn's protagonists reflect her own passion for life, a spirit which led her to write in a letter to a male colleague: "All I ask is the privilege... to tread in those successful paths my predecessors have so long thrived in ... If I must not because of my sex, have this freedom, but that you will usurp all to yourselves; I lay down my quill and you shall have no more of me." |
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Saint Hildegard von Bingen
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179
Saint Hildegard von Bingen should be considered a "polymath" (a person with varied knowledge and learning). She was an "abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, teacher, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary, and composer".
• Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
• women artists posters
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Isabella Bird Bishop was a sickly child and spent her entire life struggling with illness that may have been psychogenic, for when she was doing exactly what she wanted she was almost never ill. Her real desire was to travel and so conducted a life of travel supported by writing about her travels.
b. 10-15-1831; England
d. 10-7-1904; England
• Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs: Volume 1
• more explorer posters
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, (nee von Hahn)
b. 7-31-1831; Ukraine
d. 5-8-1891; England
Russian mystic and author Madame Blavatsky was the founder of the theosophical ("divine wisdom") movement bringing together spiritual aspects of Eastern and Western religious beliefs. Through the use of spiritual practices, theosophy promotes the unity of all spirit and matter with the universal deity.
• The Secret Doctrine: the Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy: Index to Volumes 1 and 2
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Vera Mary Brittain, English Writer, Photographic Print
b. 12-29-1893; England
d. 3-29-1970
available at-
AllPosters.com
• peace posters
• Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
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| Much of what we know and feel about the WWI we owe to Vera Brittain. She abandoned her Oxford studies in 1915 and enlisted as a nurse, serving in London, Malta, and on the Western Front. The war cost her virtually everyone she loved - her fiance, her brother - a vanished generation. |
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Charlotte Bronte, Writer, Giclee Print
b. 4-21-1816; England
d. 3-31-1855
available at-
AllPosters.com
• more Bronte posters
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Portrait of Emily Bronte, Giclee Print
b. 7-30-1818; England
d. 12-19-1848
available at-
AllPosters.com
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Pearl S. Buck
b. 6-26-1892; West Virginia
d. 3-6-1973; Vermont
"We will eat meat that we can beg or buy, but not that which we steal. Beggars we may be but thieves we are not."
• more 20th C Authors posters
• China posters
• 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Fanny (Frances) Burney
b. 6-13-1752; England
d. 1-6-1840
Fanny Burney, Jane Austen's favorite author, exposed the image-conscious and social snobbery of urban England with a sense of the comic. Burney was also friends with art patroness and diarist Hester Thrale who fell out of Burney's favor with Hester "remarried beneath" her.
• Evelina
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