Women Writers Posters & Prints, pg 7/10
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.

Ada Negri
b. 2-3-1870; Italy
d. 1-11-1945; Milano

Ada Negri was a poet and the first woman to be admitted to the Italian Academy (1940). She was also a village school teacher.

Kathleen Norris
b. 7-16-1880; San Francisco
d. 1-18-1966; Palo Alto, CA

Kathleen Norris wrote popular romance novels and was the highest-paid female writer of her time.

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Caroline Norton (née Sheridan)
b. 1808, England
d. 1877

Caroline Norton, famous British society beauty and author of the early and mid nineteenth century, wrote both to support herself and bring attention to granting rights to married and divorced women, as a result of her unsuccessful marriage.

• Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book: 1849 by Caroline E. S. Norton

Flannery O’Connor
b. 3-25-1925; Georgia
d. 8-3-1964; Georgia

Flannery O'Connor wrote in a Southern Gothic style, relying heavily on regional settings and grotesque, morally flawed characters, set against a racial charged background. The thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was important to Flannery O'Connor.

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Amelia Opie
b. 11-12-1769; Norwich
d. 12-1-1852; Norwich

Writer Amelia Opie (nee Alderson) inherited radical principles and was friends with Mary Wollstoncraft, Sarah Siddons and Madame de Stael. She was married to the painter John Opie who encouraged her literary pursuits.

• Memorials of the life of Amelia Opie, selected and arranged from her letters, diaries, and other manuscripts

Dorothy Parker
b. 8-22-1893; Long Branch, NJ
d. 6-7-1967; NY

Dorothy Parker was an American author, screenwriter (A Star is Born), and poet, known for her caustic wit and wisecracks. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Roundtable. Parker bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King Foundation.

• Collected Works of Dorothy Parker poster
• The Portable Dorothy Parker

Lucy Parsons
b. c. 1853; Texas
d. 3-7-1942

Lucy Parsons, radical American labor organizer and anarchist, is remembered as a powerful orator and author. In 1871 she married former Confederate soldier Albert Parsons; they were forced from Texas to Chicago by intolerant reactions to their interracial marriage. Albert was hanged for his supposed envolvement in the Haymarket Riot.

• Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

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Katherine Paterson
née Womeldorf
b. 10-31-1932; China

Katherine Paterson is the author of books for young adults where she tackles difficult themes of loneliness, jealousy and death. Patterson, the daughter of Christian missionaries and wife of a Presbyterian Minister, earned a Master's degree in Christian education. She received the Newbery Medal in 1978 for Bridge to Terabithia, which is one of the most challenged books, accused of being satanic material.

• The Invisible Child, Katherine Paterson

Katherine “Orinda” Philips
b. 1-1-1631; London
d. 6-22-1664; of smallpox

Poetess Katherine Philips was “regarded as the apostle of female friendship, and inspired great respect as . . . an exemplar of the ideal woman writer: virtuous, proper, and chaste”. Her home was the center of a a ‘society of friendship’ where the members were known to one another by pastoral names: Philips was “Orinda”.

• Katherine Philips (Orinda)

Christine di Pisan,
b. c.1362; Venice, Italy
d. c.1431

Christine de Pizan was a feminist philosopher and first professional women writer in the medieval era. Her first works as a writer was to provide for her family after the death of her husband. She then became a critic of Jean de Meun who slandered women in his Romance of the Rose.

The illustration for the presentation frontispiece of Christine de Pizan presenting her Collected Works to Queen Isabeau of France, consists solely of females. It is possible the entire Collected Works was produced by women in the spirit of patronage of women's intelligence and talent.

• The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

Sylvia Plath
b. 10-27-1932; Boston
d. 2-11-1963; London

Sylvia Plath was a troubled genius, few poets in 20th century literature could match the lyricism and emotional intensity of her work. Afflicted with bipolar disorder, Plath transformed her inner turmoil into poems full of sadness, anger, and beauty – combining a sense of profound loss with surprising personal strength. Though she lived only a short time, Plath not only inspired admiration and imitation – she also helped launch an emerging feminist movement.

• The Bell Jar
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Katherine Anne Porter
née Callie Russel Porter
b. 5-15-1890; Texas
d. 9-18-1980

Katherine Anne Porter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist, is known for her insight into the dark themes of betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. Her only novel was Ship of Fools (1962).

Beatrix Potter
b. 7-28-1866; London
d. 12-22-1943

The Tale of Peter Rabbit-
But Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate! First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes; and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.

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