Skip to main content
Perlego
Browse
Institutions
Pricing
Login
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisItaliano
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisItaliano

Browse by topic

  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biological Sciences
  • Business
  • Computer Science
  • Design
  • Economics
  • Education
  • History
  • Languages & Linguistics
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Mathematics
  • Media & Performing Arts
  • Medicine
  • Personal Development
  • Philosophy
  • Physical Sciences
  • Politics & International Relations
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Study Aids
  • Technology & Engineering
  • Theology & Religion

Or browse by

  • Subtopics
  • Publishers
  • Index

Browse study resources

  • Knowledge Base
  • Study Guides
  • Essay Writing Guides
  1. Home
  2. Browse
  3. Literature
  4. Literary Criticism for Women Authors
Literature

Literary Criticism for Women Authors

  • Explore
  • Books
  • Related topics

Find by topic

1 of 14
  1. African American Fiction
  2. African Drama
  3. African Literary Collections
  4. African Literary Criticism
  5. African Literature
  6. African Poetry
  7. American Drama
  8. American Literature
  9. American Poetry
  10. Ancient & Classical Drama
  11. Ancient & Classical Literary Collections
  12. Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
  13. Ancient Poetry
  14. Argentinian Literature
  15. Asian Literary Collections
  16. Asian Literary Criticism
  17. Asian Literature
  18. Asian Poetry
  19. Australian & Oceanian Literature
  20. Brazilian Literature
  21. British Drama
  22. Canadian Drama
  23. Canadian Literature
  24. Canadian Poetry
  25. Caribbean Literature
  26. Central American Literature
  27. Chinese Literature
  28. Classics
  29. Colombian Literature
  30. Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Criticism
  31. Crime & Mystery Literature
  32. Drama
  33. English Literary Criticism
  34. English Literature
  35. European Drama
  36. European Literary Collections
  37. European Literary Criticism
  38. European Literature
  39. European Poetry
  40. Feminist Literary Criticism
View all

Most popular on Perlego

1 of 20
  1. A Literature of Their Own
    A Literature of Their Own
    Elaine Showalter
    2020
  2. Eros the Bittersweet
    Eros the Bittersweet
    Anne Carson
    2023
  3. Island Bodies
    Island Bodies
    Rosamond S. King
    2014
  4. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
    Jack Zipes
    2007
  5. Reading Joan Didion
    Lynn M. Houston, William V. Lombardi
    2009
  6. Understanding Alice Walker
    Thadious M. Davis
    2021
  7. Women Making Modernism
    2020
  8. The Sword and the Pen
    Konrad Eisenbichler
    2012
  9. The Wife of Bath
    Marion Turner
    2023
  10. Cassandra Speaks
    Elizabeth Lesser
    2020
  11. Anatomical Forms
    Whitney Sperrazza
    2025
  12. Understanding Jorie Graham
    N. S. Boone
    2025
  13. Disruptive Women of Literature
    Eleanore Gardner
    2024
  14. Feminist Comedy
    Willow White
    2024
  15. Regenerating Romanticism
    Melissa Bailes
    2023
  16. Irish Women Writers
    Ann Owens Weekes
    2021
  17. In and out of Bloomsbury
    Martin Ferguson Smith
    2021
  18. Kunst und Wissenschaft der Komödienübersetzung
    Rainer Kohlmayer
    2021
  19. Surrealist women's writing
    2021
  20. Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age
    Melanie V. Dawson
    2020
  21. An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
    Dionne Brand
    2020
  22. Men and Menstruation
    David Linton
    2019
  23. Romantic Writings
    2017
  24. The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1901–1938
    Deborah Anna Logan
    2017
  25. The Portable Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    2002
  26. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'
    Justine Tally
    2008
  27. Normal People by Sally Rooney
    Bright Summaries
    2019
  28. Women in the Eighteenth Century
    2006
  29. Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
    M. Genevieve West
    2025
  30. Against Borges
    Patricia N. Klingenberg
    2025
  31. The New Queer Gothic
    Robyn Ollett
    2024
  32. Francophone Women Writers
    Eric Touya de Marenne
    2024
  33. Women and Music in the Age of Austen
    Miriam F. Hart
    2023
  34. Conversations with Beth Henley
    Jackson R. Bryer, Mary C. Hartig
    2023
  35. Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature
    Sarah Baechle, Carissa M. Harris, Elizaveta Strakhov
    2022
  36. Voices in Dialogue
    Linda Olson, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
    2021
  37. Conversations with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    2020
  38. Shirley Jackson and Domesticity
    Jill E. Anderson, Melanie R. Anderson
    2020
  39. Leslie Marmon Silko
    David L. Moore
    2016
  40. Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
    Catherine Delafield
    2016
  41. Angela Carter and Surrealism
    Anna Watz
    2016
  42. State of play
    Robin Nelson
    2013
  43. Shirley Jackson's American Gothic
    Darryl Hattenhauer
    2012
  44. The Female Reader in the English Novel
    Joe Bray
    2008
  45. The Uses of Darkness
    Laurie Brands Gagné
    2000
  46. Eve & Adam
    1999
  47. They Run with Surprising Swiftness
    Peter Radford
    2023
  48. Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child
    Eileen M. Hunt
    2017
  49. The Answer / La Respuesta
    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
    2009
  50. The Other Side of Terror
    Erica R. Edwards
    2021
  51. Enron
    Lucy Prebble
    2016
  52. Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words
    Joan of Arc
    1996
  53. Reflections/Women/Antiquity
    Helene P. Foley, Helene Foley, Foley
    2013
  54. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead
    M. Elizabeth Ginway, M. Ginway
    2020
  55. Women's Cinema
    Alison Butler
    2019
  56. On Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf
    2012
  57. Women of the Left Bank
    Shari Benstock
    2010
  58. Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
    Gina Wisker
    2010
  59. For Women and Girls Only
    Jessica Roda
    2024
  60. The Poetics of Difference
    Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
    2021
View all

Recently published

1 of 20
  1. Anatomical Forms
    Anatomical Forms
    Whitney Sperrazza
    2025
  2. Understanding Jorie Graham
    Understanding Jorie Graham
    N. S. Boone
    2025
  3. Jane Eyre
    Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë
    2025
  4. Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
    Jessica Barr
    2026
  5. The Bonkbuster
    Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister
    2025
  6. Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism
    2025
  7. Vittoria Colonna
    2025
  8. Victorian legs
    Clayton Tarr
    2025
  9. Conversations with Jesmyn Ward
    2025
  10. Karen Blixen's Search for Self
    Patti M. Marxsen
    2026
  11. The Myth of George Eliot
    Alessandra Grego
    2025
  12. Jane Austen in 50 Words
    Maria Frawley
    2025
  13. Authorizing Early Modern European Women
    2025
  14. Sex and Style
    Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
    2025
  15. Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction
    2025
  16. Contemporary Visual Poetry
    Fiona Becket
    2025
  17. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë, Zenith Maple Leaf Press
    2025
  18. Song of the Land
    2025
  19. Anne Brontë
    Ada Harrison, Derek Stanford
    2025
  20. The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century
    Miles Booy
    2025
  21. Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts
    2026
  22. Jackie Kay
    2026
  23. Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing
    Ieva Stončikaitė
    2026
  24. Zadie Smith
    2026
  25. Evelyn Scott
    Dorothy M. Scura
    2026
  26. Translation and Gender
    Luise von Flotow
    2026
  27. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë
    2026
  28. British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical
    Megan Peiser
    2026
  29. The Bright Edges of the World
    Garrett Peck
    2026
  30. The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture
    2026
  31. Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange
    2026
  32. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Bronte
    2026
  33. Agnes Grey
    Anne Brontë
    2026
  34. Violence and Rebellion in Contemporary French Women’s Autofiction
    Michèle Bacholle
    2026
  35. Sexual Violence in Comics
    Lee Okan
    2026
  36. Paper Heroines
    Mollie Barnes
    2026
  37. Victorian Women’s Travel Writing and the Female-Capitalist Gaze
    Margaret K. Gray
    2026
  38. Wise Women for Loving Nature
    Rod Giblett
    2026
  39. WomenWriting Illness as Their Own
    2026
  40. Disappearance and Candor in Contemporary Women’s Writing
    Lane Glisson
    2026
  41. Southern Women, Southern Landscapes
    Judith W. Page, Elise L. Smith
    2026
  42. Agnes Grey
    Anne Brontë
    2025
  43. Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century
    2025
  44. As I Was Saying
    Cecilia Farr, Cecilia Konchar Farr
    2025
  45. An A-Z of Beatrix Potter
    Penny Bradshaw
    2025
  46. Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism
    Chielozona Eze
    2025
  47. The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing
    2025
  48. Conversations with Ellen Gilchrist
    2025
  49. Louisa May Alcott's Fairy Tales and Fantasy Stories
    2025
  50. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë
    2025
  51. Agnes Grey
    Anne Brontë
    2025
  52. Lola the Interpreter
    Lyn Hejinian
    2025
  53. To Absent Friends
    2025
  54. Discovering Bridget Manningham’s Rivall Friendship
    2025
  55. Gifting Translation in Early Modern England
    Kirsten Inglis
    2025
  56. Italian Americans on the Page
    2025
  57. What Has Been, A Novel by Eliza Kirkham Mathews
    2025
  58. James Joyce’s Legacies in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing
    Annalisa Mastronardi
    2025
  59. Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London
    Christi Spain-Savage
    2025
  60. The Usual Star and The Moment
    H.D.
    2025
View all

Recently added

1 of 20
  1. Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
    Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
    Jessica Barr
    2026
  2. Karen Blixen's Search for Self
    Karen Blixen's Search for Self
    Patti M. Marxsen
    2026
  3. Women’s Restorative Medievalisms
    Women’s Restorative Medievalisms
    2024
  4. The Bonkbuster
    Amy Burge, Jodi McAlister
    2025
  5. Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism
    2025
  6. Understanding Jorie Graham
    N. S. Boone
    2025
  7. The Myth of George Eliot
    Alessandra Grego
    2025
  8. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë
    2025
  9. Arab Women's Lives Retold
    2007
  10. Jane Austen in 50 Words
    Maria Frawley
    2025
  11. A Room of One's Own
    Virginia Woolf
    2025
  12. A Room Of One's Own
    Virginia Woolf
    1989
  13. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë, Icarsus
    2024
  14. Authorizing Early Modern European Women
    2025
  15. Vittoria Colonna
    2025
  16. Sex and Style
    Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
    2025
  17. Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction
    2025
  18. Contemporary Visual Poetry
    Fiona Becket
    2025
  19. Jane Eyre
    Charlotte Brontë, Zenith Maple Leaf Press
    2025
  20. Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics
    2025
  21. Victorian legs
    Clayton Tarr
    2025
  22. Conversations with Jesmyn Ward
    2025
  23. Hero Me Not
    Chesya Burke
    2023
  24. Women and Music in the Age of Austen
    Miriam F. Hart
    2023
  25. Lear’s Other Shadow
    Thomas G. Olsen
    2025
  26. The Visionary Queen
    Theresa Brock
    2023
  27. Song of the Land
    2025
  28. Precarious Domesticity and the British Novel
    Henna Messina
    2024
  29. Women Making Modernism
    2020
  30. Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age
    Melanie V. Dawson
    2020
  31. Island Bodies
    Rosamond S. King
    2014
  32. Ogling Ladies
    Sandra Lindemann Summers
    2019
  33. Crossing the Creek
    Anna Lillios
    2020
  34. Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
    M. Genevieve West
    2025
  35. Francophone Women Writers
    Eric Touya de Marenne
    2024
  36. Disruptive Women of Literature
    Eleanore Gardner
    2024
  37. The Reading of Silence
    Patricia Ondek Laurence
    1993
  38. A Genre of Her Own
    Gayathri Prabhu
    2025
  39. Mystic Moderns
    James H. Thrall
    2020
  40. Anne Brontë
    Ada Harrison, Derek Stanford
    2025
  41. Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics
    Pramila Venkateswaran
    2024
  42. Fay Weldon, Feminism, and British Culture
    Mara E. Reisman
    2018
  43. Female Friendship
    2022
  44. African Women Writing Diaspora
    2021
  45. The Silent Feminine
    2022
  46. Gender and Identity in Franz Grillparzer’s Classical Dramas
    Alicia E. Ellis
    2021
  47. Critical Ecofeminism
    Greta Gaard
    2017
  48. The New Physiognomy
    Rochelle Rives
    2024
  49. Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
    Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey
    2024
  50. Brides, Mourners, Bacchae
    Vassiliki Panoussi
    2019
  51. Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor
    Kate Sheckler
    2022
  52. Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature
    Tony Burns
    2010
  53. Images of Women and Gender Identity in John Marston's Plays
    Sukanya Behura Senapati
    2023
  54. The Collected Letters of Mary Blachford Tighe
    2020
  55. The Ladies of Llangollen
    Fiona Brideoake
    2017
  56. The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1901–1938
    Deborah Anna Logan
    2017
  57. The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
    2005
  58. African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction
    Elizabeth J. West
    2011
  59. Anatomical Forms
    Whitney Sperrazza
    2025
  60. Chaucer and Trauma
    2025
View all

PERLEGO

PricingFAQsContact UsPerlego for InstructorsPerlego for InstitutionsPerlego for PublishersCareersPress

BROWSE

TopicsPublishersIndexKnowledge BaseStudy GuidesHarvard Referencing GuidesAPA Referencing GuidesEssay Writing GuidesResearch Assistant
ArchitectureArtBiological SciencesBusinessComputer ScienceDesignEconomicsEducationHistoryLanguages & LinguisticsLawLiteratureMathematicsMedia & Performing ArtsMedicinePersonal DevelopmentPhilosophyPhysical SciencesPolitics & International RelationsPsychologySocial SciencesStudy AidsTechnology & EngineeringTheology & Religion

Made with ☂︎ in London - © 2026 Perlego Ltd - Perlego HQ, 1 Waterhouse Sq, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2ST, United Kingdom - VAT 246681777

PrivacyTermsContent Policy
, (opens in new tab)
BooksSubtopicsPublishersIndexMissionCookiesSmart SearchAccessibility
, (opens in new tab)
Help Centre
, (opens in new tab)
Knowledge Base
, (opens in new tab)

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Tiktok
X
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisItaliano