Women's Classic Literature - My List

This list is a combination of the women authors on my current Classics Club list as well as classic women authors residing on my TBR pile. 

This post was inspired by The Classics Club Women's Classic Literature Event.

English

• Austen, Jane                          Love and Freindship (sic), Lady Susan, The Watson, Sandition
• Barker, Pat                            The Regeneration Trilogy
• Bowen, Elizabeth                  Death of the Heart, House in Paris, The Last September
• Bridge, Ann                           Peking Picnic
• Bronte, Anne                         Agnes Grey
• Bronte, Charlotte                   Villette
• Bronte, Emily                        The Night is Darkening Round Me (poems)
• Brookner, Anita                     The Rules of Engagement, Strangers
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden, The Little Princess
• Delafield, E.M.                      Diary of a Provincial Lady
• Du Maurier, Daphne              Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek
• Dundy, Elaine                        The Dud Avocado
• Gaskell Elizabeth                   Cranford, Wives and Daughters, Mary Barton, Ruth
• Holtby, Winifred                    South Riding
• Jenkins, Elizabeth                  Hare and the Tortoise
• Kennedy, Margaret                The Ladies of Lyndon, The Forgotten Smile
• Lee, Hermione                       Edith Wharton (bio), Virginia Woolf (bio)
• Lessing, Doris                        Golden Notebook
• Manning, Olivia                     The Balkan Trilogy
• Mitford, Nancy                       Love in a Cold Climate, Voltaire in Love, Frederick the Great, Madame de Pompadour, The Sun King, Don't Tell Alfred, The Pursuit of Love (reread)
• Murdoch, Iris                         Under The Net, The Flight From the Enchanter, The Sea, The Sea, The Book and the Brotherhood
• Nesbit, Edith                         The Railway Children               (reread)
• Pearce, Philippa                     Tom's Midnight Garden    (reread)
• Peyton, K.M.                         Flambards, Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer  (rereads)
• Potter, Beatrix                        The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit
• Pym, Barbara                         A Glass of Blessings, Less Than Angels, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet, Civil to Strangers, Some Tame Gazelle, An Academic Question, Quartet in Autumn
• Rossetti, Christina                 Poems
• Rowley, Hazel                       Tete-a-Tete: The Lives & Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre
• Shelley, Mary                        Frankenstein
• Smith, Dodie                         I Capture the Castle
• Spark, Muriel                       A Far Cry From Kensington
• Taylor, Elizabeth                  A Game of Hide and Seek
• Uglow, Jenny                        Elizabeth Gaskell (bio)
• Woolf, Virginia                     A Room of One's Own  (reread), Night and Day, Between the Acts, Jacob's Room, The Years, The Voyage Out

Australian

• Calthorpe, Mena                          The Dyehouse
• Ada Cambridge                            Sisters, The Three Miss Kings, A Mere Chance
• Dark, Elenor                                The Timeless Land
• Harrower, Elizabeth                     The Catherine Wheel
• Hill, Ernestine                              My Love Must Wait
• Langley, Eve                                 The Pea-Pickers
• Lindsey, Joan                                Picnic at Hanging Rock   (reread)
• Richardson, Henry Handel           The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Maurice Guest                         
• St John, Madeliene                       Essence of the Thing
• Stead, Christina                            The Salzburg Tales
• Turner, Ethel                                 Seven Little Australians   (reread)
• Von Armin, Elizabeth                   The Enchanted April   (reread)

American

• Alcott, Louisa May           Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys (rereads)
• Angelou, Maya                 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (reread)
• Buck, Pearl S                    The Good Earth
• Cather, Willa                    One of Ours, The Professor's House, Song of the Lark, O Pioneers, Death Comes to the Archbishop, Lucy Gayheart, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Shadows on the Rock, A Lost Lady, Alexander's Bridge
• Coolidge, Susan               What Katy Did (reread)
• Ferber, Edna                     So Big, Cimarron
• Fraser, Caroline                Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Gordon, Charlotte            Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley (bio)
• Highsmith, Patricia           The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol
• Morrison, Toni                  Beloved
• Plath, Sylvia                      Bell Jar
• Walker, Alice                    Color Purple (reread), Possessing the Secret of Joy (reread)
• Wharton, Edith                 Age of Innocence (reread), Summer, House of Mirth (reread), The Children, Ethan Frome (reread), The Buccaneers
• Wilder, Laura Ingalls        Little House in the Big Woods (reread), Little House on the Prairie (reread)

Canadian

• Montgomery, L.M.               A Tangled Web, Anne of Green Gables (reread)
• Rubio, Mary Henley             Lucy Maud Montgomery

Danish

• Blixen, Karen               Out of Africa

Dutch

• Frank, Anne                     Diary of a Young Girl   (reread)

French

• de Beauvoir, Simone            Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
• Sand, George                        Indiana, Valentine, The Devil's Pool, The Countess von Ruidolstadt, Marianne

German

• Arendt, Hannah                             Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Canetti, Veza                                 The Tortoises
• Kerr, Judith                                   When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit    (reread)
• von Droste-Hushoff, Annette        The Jew's Beech

New Zealand

• Park, Ruth                                    Swords and Crowns and Rings

Russian

• Nemirovsky, Irene                      Suite Francaise    (reread)

Swedish

• Lindgren, Astrid                       Pippi Longstocking

Norwegian

• Undset, Sigrid                            Kristin Lavransdatter

Japanese

• Shikibu, Murasaki                     Tale of the Genii

I have grouped my female authors (perhaps controversially) by country of birth. 

Which is why you will find Nemirovsky under Russian, not French - Park in New Zealand, not Australia - and Von Armin in Australia, not England.

My aim is find a classic women's author from as many countries in the world as possible.

If you know of any from personal experience (i.e. you've actually read the book/author), I'd love to know about them. You can even leave a link for your review of it in the comments below.

I plan to host a readalong for Age in Innocence in January to coincide with my Wharton Review month.

This list will no doubt evolve.

Happy (classics) Reading!