Margery Kempe -- Jane Anger -- Alice Thornton -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Aphra Behn -- Mary Manley -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Shelley -- Harriet Martineau -- Olive Schreiner -- Kate Chopin -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Dorothy Richardson -- Anais Nin -- Dilys Laing -- Margaret Walker -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner -- Muriel Rukeyser.