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630 BCE
Sappho
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Period: 600 BCE to 700 BCE
7th Century BCE
They wrote on papyrus. Most people weren't literate. People were hearing The Iliad and The Odyssey. They worshiped Greek gods. -
1160
Marie de France
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Period: 1450 to
Renaissance
Classical arts (from Greece and Rome). Women who were patrons could have Latin texts translated for them. Women weren't supposed to be rulers. Religious conflict. -
1533
Queen Elizabeth I
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1569
Aemilia Lanyer
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Mary Wroth
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Anne Bradstreet
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Aphra Behn
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Period: to
Enlightenment
Restoration of art and literature and theatre. Puritans were excluded from power. Away from religion and toward science: logic, nature. colonialism, imperialism -
Mary Chudleigh
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Eliza Haywood
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Judith Sargent Murray
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Phyllis Wheatley
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Mary Wollstonecraft is a Brilliant Bad Ass!
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Sojourner Truth is a Brilliant Bad Ass!
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Period: to
The Nineteenth Century
Industrial Revolution, woman's revolution, crisis of faith, golden age of women's literature, expansion, imperialism, Civil War in U.S. -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Harriet Jacobs
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Frances E.W. Harper
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Emily Dickinson
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Kate Chopin
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Sui Sin Far
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Zitkala Sa
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Radclyffe Hall
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Virginia Woolf
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H.D.
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Marianne Moore
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Marita Bonner
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Period: to
Early Twentieth Century
WWI, trench warfare, flapper (New Woman), globalized, industrialized, crisis of faith -
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Anne Sexton
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Adrienne Rich
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Sylvia Plath
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Period: to
Mid-Twentieth Century
World War II, Civil Rights Act, Vietnam War, space race, Cold War, happy housewife, birth control pill -
Leslie Marmon Silko
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Rita Dove
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Sandra Cisneros
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Gish Jen
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Kelly Sue Deconnick
