Feminist World Authors of Fiction
This is a list of women writers whose books are in Otterbein's library. They may not claim to be feminist, but their writings do reflect an awareness of the condition of women and exhibit strong female characters.
Algeria | Antigua, West Indies | Argentina | Australia | Bangladesh |
Brazil | Canada | Chile | Croatia | Czechoslovakia |
Dominca, West Indies | Egypt | England | France | Ghana | Guadeloupe, Fresh West Indies | Guyana | Haiti | India | Ireland | Israel | Lebanon | Mexico | Netherlands | Nicaraugua | Nigeria | Norway | Pakistan | Senegal | Singapore | South Africa | Sweden | Vietnam |
The Book of Promethea PQ2663 .I9 L5813 1991 An exploration of love that is shaped by history and the unconscious.
Kincaid, Jamaica.
Annie John PR9275 .A583 K5634 1985b
At the Bottom of the River PR9275.A583 K5635 1992 The Autobiography Of My Mother PZ4.K5622 Au 1997 Lucy PR9275 .A583 L83 1990 Mr. Potter PZ4.K5622 Mr 2002 My Brother
PZ4.K5622 My 1997
Traba, Marta.
Mothers and Shadows PQ7797.T825 C63 1989 A suspenseful novel of women from two different generations trying to cope with the disappearance of their loved ones in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
Franklin, (Stella Maraia Sarah) Miles
My Brilliant Career PZ3.F8566 My 3
A Golden Age: A Novel PZ4 .A5224 Go 2008 Brazil
Lispector, Clarice
The Apple in the Dark PQ9697.L585 M313 1986
Atwood, Margaret
Alias Grace PZ4.A869 Al 1996 The Blind Assassin PZ4.A8866 Bl 2000 Bodily Harm PZ4.A889 Bo 1992 Cat's Eyes PZ4.A889 Ca 1989 The Edible Woman PZ4.A889 Ed 1991 Good Bones & Simple Murder PZ4.A889 Go 1994 The Handmaid's Tale PZ4.A889 Ha Life Before Man PZ4.A889 Li 1979 Surfacing PZ4.A869 Su 1987 The Robber Bride PZ4.A889 Ro 1993 Wilderness Tips PZ4.A889 Wi 1991
Blais, Marie-Claire
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel PQ3919.2.B53 S313 1992
The story of the sixteenth child of a farmer's family in rural Quebec.
Dandurand, Anne
The Cracks PQ3919.2.D247 C613 1992 The story of a young Montreal woman at odds with society and herself.
Hebert, Anne
Kamouraska PQ3919.2.E42 K313 1992 A novel based of a true incident of forbidden love and murder that took place in Quebec in 1840.
Laurence, Margaret
A Bird in the House PZ4.L377 Bi1993 The Diviners PZ4.L377 Di 1992 The Fire Dwellers PZ4.L377 Fi 1993 A Jest of God PZ4.L377 Je Stone Angel PZ4.L3845 St 1993
MacDonald, Ann-Marie
Fall on Your Knees: A Novel PZ4.M346 Fa 1997 The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel PZ4.M369374 Wa 2003
Munro, Alice
The Moons of Jupiter: Stories PZ4.M68 Mo 1984 Progress of Love PZ4.M968 Pr 1986 Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You PZ4.M968 So 1984
Roy, Gabrielle
The Tin Flute PQ3919.R74 B613 1989
Allende, Isabel
Daughter of Fortune: a Novel PQ8098.1.L54 H5513 1999 The House of the Spirits PQ8098.1.L54 C313 1985 Inés of My Soul PQ8098.1 .L54 I5413 2006 My Invented Country: A Memoir PQ8098.1.L54 Z467 2003 Of Love and Shadows PQ8098.1.L54 D413 1987 The Stories of Eva Luna PQ8098.1.L54 C8413 1991
Marble Skin PG1619 .14 .R34 M7313 1994
Kanturkova, Eva
My Companions in the Bleak House PG5039.21.A5 P713 1987
Rhys, Jean
Voyage in the Dark PZ3 .R3494 Vo 1982 Wide Sargasso Sea PZ3 .R3494 Wi 1982
Chedid, Andree
The Return to Beruit PQ2605 .H4245 M3513 1989
Austen, Jane
Emma PZ3 .A93 E4 Lady Susan: The Watsons PZ3 .A93 L3 Mansfield Park PZ3 .A93 M5 Northanger Abbey PZ3 .A93 N5 Persuasion PZ3 .A93 P Pride and Prejudice PZ3 .A93 Pr 48 Sense and Sensibility PZ3 .A93 S
Barker, Pat
The Eye in the Door PZ4.B244 Ey 1995 The Ghost Road PZ4.B244 Gh 1996 Regeneration PZ4.B244 Re 1992
Barnes, Julian
Staring at the Sun PZ4 .B262 St
Behn, Aphra
Love-letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister PZ3.B39692 Lo 1993 Oroonoko or, The Royal Slave PZ3.B39692 Or 1973
Bronte, Anne
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall PZ3 .B79 T2 1884z
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre PZ3 .B790 J42 The Professor PZ3 .B790 P3 1883z Shirley PZ3 .B790 S12z Villette PZ3 .B790 V 1967z
Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights PZ3 .B7902 W39z 1940
Byatt, Antonia Susan
Possession: A Romance PZ4.B998 Po 1990
Crowther, Yasmin
The Saffron Kitchen PZ4.C7687 Sa...
Drabble, Margaret
The Ice Age PZ4.D756 Ic3 The Middle Ground PZ4.D756 Mh The Needle's Eye PZ4.D756 Ne3 The Radiant Way PZ4.D756 Ra 1987 Realms of Gold PZ4.D756 Re3
Eliot, George (aka Mary Ann Evans)
Adam Bede PZ3 .E43 A41 Felix Holt, theRadical PZ3 .E43 f1z The Lifted Veil PZ3 .E43 Li 1985 Middlemarch PZ3 .E43 Mi Silas Marner PZ3 .E43 Si 28
Hall, Radclyffe (Marguerite)
The Well of Loneliness PZ3 .H1468 We2
Lessing, Doris
African Stories PZ3.L56684 Af2 Briefing for a Descent Into Hell PZ3.L56684 Br3 The Fifth Child PZ3.L56684 Fi 1988 The Four-Gated City PZ3.L56684 F6z The Golden Notebook PZ3.L56684 Go The Good Terrorist PZ3.L56684 Good 1985 The Grass is Singing PZ3.L56684 Gr Landlocked PZ3.L56684 Lan A Man and Two Woman PZ3.L56684 Man The Memoirs of a Survivor PZ3.L56684 Me3 Stories PZ3.L56684 St 1978 The Summer Before the Dark PZ3.L56684 Su 3 Temptation of Jack Orkney & Other Stories PZ3.L56684 Te3
Renault, Mary
The Bull from the Sea PZ3 .R2913 Bu Fire from Heaven PZ3 .R2913 Fi Funeral Games PZ3 .R2913 Fu The King Must Die PZ3 .R2913 K14 1972 Last of the Wine PZ3 .R2913 Las 2 Mask of Apollo PZ3 .R2913 Mas 2
Weldon, Fay
The Fat Woman's Joke PZ4.W457 Fa 1986 The Hearts and Lives of Men PZ4.W457 He 1988 Life and Loves of a She-Devil PZ4.W457 Li 1985 Polaris and Other Stories PZ4.W457 Po 1989 The Rules of Life PZ4.W457 Ru 1987 The Shrapnel Academy PZ4.W457 Sh 1987 Words of Advice PZ4.W457 Wo 1978
West, Rebecca Dame
The Birds Fall Down PZ3.W5196 Bi The Fountain Overflows; A Novel PZ3.W5196 Fo Harriet Hume, A London Fantasy PZ3.W5196 Har2 The Judge: A Novel PZ3.W5196 Ju 1980 The Return of the Soldier PZ3.W5196 Re 1998 Sunflower PZ4.W42657 Su 1987 The Thinking Reed; A Novel PZ3.W5196 Th1z
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs. Dalloway PZ3.W884 Mi 1985 &
PR6045.072 M7 1990Orlando PZ3.W884 Or To the Lighthouse PR6045.072 T6 1989 The Waves PZ3.W884 Wav 1950z, 1976 The Years PZ3.W884 Ye 3 1965
Beauvoir, Simone de
The Woman Destroyed PZ3.B3852 Wo
Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle
The Blue Lantern PZ3 .C67984 Bl 2 1963 Break of Day PZ3 .C67984 Br Cheri, and The last of Cheri PZ3 .C67984 Ch 10 1951 Claudine Married PZ3 .C67984 Cla The Collected Stories of Colette PZ3 .C67984 Co 5 The Complete Claudine PZ3 .C67984 Cr 5 My Mother's House, and Sido PZ3.C67984 M9 1953 My Mother's House, and The Vagabond PZ3.C67984 M95 The Other Woman PZ3 .C67984 Ov The Pure and the Impure PZ3 .C67984 Pu Retreat from Love PZ3 .C67984 Rg 3 The Shackle PZ3 .C67984 Sh 3 1976 Six Novels PZ3 .C67984 Si The Tender Shoot, and Other Stories PZ3.C67984 T4 1958
Nin, Anais
Children of the Albatross PZ3 .N617 C4 1959z Cities of the Interior PZ3 .N617 Ci4 Collages PZ3 .N617 C6 1964z The Four-Chambered Heart PZ3 .N617 F6 1959z Ladders to Fire PZ3 .N617 L3 1959z Seduction of the Minotauer PZ3 .N617 Se4 1969z A Spy in the House of Love PZ3 .N617 Sp3 Under a Glass Bell & Other Stories PZ3 .N617 Up5 Winter of Artifice PZ3 .N617 Wi5
Sand, George
The Country Waif PQ2402 .F36 1977 Lelia PQ2406 .L4 1978
Yourcenar, Marguerite
The Abyss PQ2649.O8 A22 1976 Memoirs Of Hadrian. PQ2649.O8 M45 1954
Aidoo, Ama Ata
The Girl Who Can: and Other Stories PZ4.A3922 Gi 2002 No Sweetness Here PZ4.A3922 No 1988
Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Conde, Maryse
The Children of Segu PQ3949.2.C65 S4413 1990 I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem PQ3949.2.C65 It 1994 A Season in Rhiata PQ3949.2.C65 S2513 1988 Segu: A Novel PQ3949.2.C65 S4413 1987
Schwartz-Bart, Simone
The Bridge of Beyond PQ2679.C43 P53 1982 A Woman Named Solitude PQ2637.C736 M8 1973 .
Gilroy, Beryl
Frangipani House PR9320 .9 .G53 F74 Deals with the breakdown of family when an elderly woman is confined to a nursing home by her children, who have left home for better opportunities abroad. The woman runs away and is taken in by a granddaughter.
Danticat, Edwidge
Breath, Eyes, Memory PZ4 .D225 Br 1998 The Farming of Bones PZ4 .D225 Fa 1998 Krik? Krak! PZ4 .D225 Kr 1995
Desai, Anita
Baumgartner's Bombay PR9499.3.D465 D38 1989
Desai, Kiran
The Inheritance of Loss
PZ4.D4739 In 2006
Gupta, Sunetra
Memories of Rain PR9499.3.G8957 M46 1993
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Interpreter Of Maladie : Stories PZ4.L3354 In 1999 The Namesake PZ4.L3354 In 1999 Unaccustomed Earth PZ4.L3354 Un 2008
Markandaya, Kamala
Nectar in a Sieve PZ 4 .M344 Ne
Mukherjee, Bharati
The Holder of the World PR9499.3.M77 H65 1993 Jasmine PR9499.3.M77 J3 1989
Roy, Arundhati
The God of Small Things PR 9499 .3 .R59 G63 1997
Sahgal, Nayantara
Mistaken Identity PR9499 .3 .S154 M5 1988
Binchy, Maeve
Circle of Friends PZ4.B582 Ci 1991 Echoes PZ4.B582 Ec 1989 Light A Penny Candle PZ4.B582 Li 1983 The Lilac Bus PZ4.B582 Lib 1991
Murdoch, Iris
Nuns and Soldiers PZ4.M974 Nu
O'Brien, Edna
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories PZ4.0129 Fa Lantern Slides: Stories PZ4.0129 La 1990 The Love Object: Stories PZ4.0129 Lp3 Night PZ4.0129 Ni 1987
O'Faolain, Julia
No Country For Young Men PZ4.0412 No 1987 Women in the Wall PZ4.0412 Wo 1988
Almog, Ruth
Death in the Rain PJ5054.A4972 M313 1993
Shaykh, Hanan
Women of Sand and Myrhh PJ7862 .H356 W66 1992 The Story of Zahra PJ7862.H356 H5513 1995
Campobello, Nellie
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands PQ7297.C24448 C3713 1988
Esquivel, Laura
Like Water For Chocolate PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 1992
Garro, Elena
Recollections of Thing to Come PQ7297.G3585 R413 1969
Nightfather PT 5881 .16 .R48 T7313 1994
Alegria, Claribel and Darwin J. Flakoll
Ashes of Izalco PQ7539.A47 C413 1989 Family Album PQ7539.A47 P8413 1991 Luisa in Realityland PQ7539.A47 L8513 1988
Emecheta, Buchi
Destination Biafra PZ 4 .E525 De 1994 The Family PZ 4 .E525 Fa 1999 The Joys of Motherhood PR 9387 .9 .E387 Kehinde PZ 4 .E525 Ke 1994 Second-Class Citizen PZ 4 .E525 Se 1983 The Slave Girl PZ 4 .E525 S13
Nwapa, Flora
Idu PZ 4 .N987 Id Efuru PZ 4 .N987 Ef
Undset, Sigrid
Kristin Lavransdatter PT8950.U5 K72 1928 v.1-3
Sidwa, Bapsi
An American Brat PR9540 .9 .S53 A82 1993 Cracking India PR9540 .9 S53 I34 1991
Ba, Mariama
So Long a Letter PQ3989 .2 .B23 S513 1989
Chin, Audrey
Learning to Fly PZ4 .L729 Bo 1998
Lim, Catherine
The Bondmaid PZ4 .C381 Le 1999
Two Women PT9876.16.R475 F5713 2001 Simon's Family PT9876.16.R475 b S5 2000
Marklund, Liza
The Bomber PT9876.23.A653 S6313 2001
Gordimer, Nadine
Burger's Daughter PZ4.G652 Bu 1989 The Conservationist PZ4.G652 Co 1968 A Guest of Honor PZ4.G652 Gu 1973 July's People PZ4.G652 Ju 1982 Jump and Other Stories PZ4.G652 Jum 1991
Head, Bessie
A Question Of Power PR9369.3.H4 Q84 When Rain Clouds Gather PR9408.B553 H4 1987
Schreiner, Olive
Dreams PZ3.S378 Dr Leaving The Farm PR9345 .W66 2003 The Story Of An African Farm , A Novel PZ3.S378 St1z Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland PZ3.S378 T2
Lê, Minh Khuê
The Stars, The Earth, The River PL4378.9.L3615 A2 1997
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