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Women Writers “C...- ”
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.
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literature > Women Writers List | a | b | C | d | e | f | g | h | i-j | k | l | m | n | o | p-q | r | s | t | u-v | w | x-y-z < famous women alphabetical list < social studies
Notable women writers, authors, novelists, journalists, dramatists, poets list "C" with posters, prints, books, short bio info, links.
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Willa Cather
b. 12-7-1873; Virginia
d. 4-24-1947
“Cautiously I slipped from under the buffalo hide, got up on my knees and peered over the side of the wagon. There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields, If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.” My Antonia
• more Willa Cather posters
• more History Through Literature Posters
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Margaret Cavendish (née Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle
b. 1623; England
d. 12-15-1673
Margaret Cavendish, an attendant of Queen Henrietta Maria, was a poet, philosopher, writer of romances (her romance, The Blazing World, is one of the earliest examples of science fiction), essayist, and playwright who published under her own name at a time when most women writers published anonymously. She addressed topics ranging from “gender, power, manners, scientific method, and animal protection”.
Margaret Cavendish quotes -
• “Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.”
• “Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.”
• Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
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Agatha Christie
b. 9-15-1890; England
d. 1-12-1976
Agatha Christie, the author of novels, short stories and plays, was the creator of detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie quotes -
• “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
• “Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.”
• “I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
• Agatha Christie Books
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Sandra Cisneros
b. 12-20-1954; Chicago, IL
Sandra Cisneros, internationally acclaimed for her poetry and fiction, has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.
Cisneros is the author of the novels The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, a collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek, a book of poetry Loose Woman, and a children's book Hairs/Pelitos.
Sandra Cisneros quotes ~
• “In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.” ~ The House on Mango Street
• more Latinos Writers posters
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Colette
b. 1-28-1873; France
d. 8-3-1954
Colette is considered France's greatest woman writer. Her 1944 novel Gigi was made into a Broadway play (starring Audrey Hepburn) and an Academy award winning musical (1958).
Colette quotes -
• “Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
• “I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.”
• “Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
• “To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”
• “You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
• “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”
• The Collected Stories of Colette
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Hannah Cowley
b. 3-14-1743; England
d. 3-11-1809
Hannah Cowley's, The Belle's Stratagem: A Comedy in Five Acts, was first produced in 1780 and is considered her most famous play. It is a lighthearted comedy about manners and courtship set in the fashionable society of late-eighteenth-century London.
Hannah Cowley quote -
• “I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!”
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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
(Joan Agnes of the Cross)
née Juana Ines de Asbaje y Ramirez
b. 11-12-1651; near Mexico City, Mexico
d. 4-17-1695 (plague?)
Self-taught scholar and poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz was an early feminist, choosing to live as a nun in a convent, the only refuge for a female who wished to study. Eventually silenced by the church and forced to sell her library, she died of a plague epidemic.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ~
• “Ah stupid men, unreasonable in blaming woman’s nature, oblivious that your acts incite the very faults you censure.”
• Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings
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