Women Writers Posters & Prints, pg 2/10
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.

Joanna Baillie
b. 9-11-1762; Scotland
d. 2-23-1851

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.

• Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b. 3-6-1806; England
d. 6-29-1861; Italy

• Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Robert Browning print

Aphra Behn (née Johnson)
b. 7-10-1640; England
d. 4-16-1689

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.”

• Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works

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

Elizabeth Bishop
b. 2-8-1911; Worcester, MA
d. 10-6-1979; Boston

Elizabeth Bishop, poet and teacher, was Poet Laureate of the United States (1949-50). She also won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for Poems - North and South, the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.

• The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

Isabella Bird Bishop
b. 10-15-1831; England
d. 10-7-1904; England

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.

• 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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, (née 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

Louise Bogan
b. 8-11-1896; Livermore Falls, ME
d. 2-4-1970; NYC

Louise Bogan was the poetry critic for the New Yorker magazine for 38 years.

• Poets Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan

Vera Mary Brittain
b. 12-29-1893; England
d. 3-29-1970

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.

• peace posters
• Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

Charlotte Bronte
b. 4-21-1816; England
d. 3-31-1855

• more Bronte posters

Emily Bronte
b. 7-30-1818; England
d. 12-19-1848

Gwendolyn Brooks
b. 6-7-1917; Topeka, KS
d. 12-3-2000; Chicago

Gwendolyn Brooks, poet and teacher, was awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, received a National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.

• Selected Poems, Gwendolyn Brooks
• Essential Brooks CD (Audio CD)

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.” The Good Earth

• China posters
• 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature

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 when Hester “remarried beneath” her station.

• Evelina