Female English Novelists XIX century

Jane Austen

Dec 16, 1775

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 . She was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Mary Shelley

Aug 30, 1797

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on 30 August 1797. She was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

Emily Brontë

Jul 30, 1818

Emily Jane Brontë was born on 30 July 1818. She was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

George Eliot

Dec 22, 1819

Mary Ann Evans was born on 22 November 1819. She was known as alternatively Mary Anne or Marian, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.