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Early Women Writers

All Women Writers

Aa'isha al-Iskandraniyya

‘Arīb al-Ma’mūnīya

‘Inān bint ‘Abd-Allāh

Aa'isha bint Ahmad al-Qurtubiyya

Anna Komnene

Aa'isha bint al-Mu'tasim

Abutsu-ni

Adelheid Langmann

Agnes of Bohemia

Akazome Emon

Akka Mahadevi

Al-Khansa

Amat al-Aziz

Andal or Godadevi

Anna von Munzingen

Antonia Pulci

Antonia Tanini Pulci

Ashshilbiyya

Asiya al-Baghdadiyya

Atukuri Molla

Bahinabai/ Bahini

Ban Jieyu

Ban Zhao

Bao Linghui

Ben no Naishi

Bint al-Hubab

Bridget of Sweden

Buthaina bint al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad

Cai Yan

Cassandra Fedele

Catherine of Siena

Chen Changwen

Chen Deyi

Christine Ebner

Empress Xu

Christine de Pizan

Clemence of Barking

Comtessa de Dia

Dahna bint Mas-hal

Daini no Sanmi

Dhuoda

Egeria

Eifuku Mon'in (Saionji Shoko)

Eleonore of Austria

Elisabeth Kempf

Elisabeth of Schönau

Elisabeth von Kirchberg

Elizabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont, Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Elsbeth Stagel

Elsbeth von Oye

Empress Genmei

Empress Jitō

Empress Yang

Fadl Ashsha'ira

Fatima al-Mayriti

Fatima bint Muhammad

Florencia Pinar

Frau Ava

Gangadevi

Gertrud von Helfta or Gertrud die Grosse

Gertrude of Poland

Ghassaniyya al-Bajjaniyya

Gotobano-in Kunai-kyo

Guan Daosheng

Gulbadan Banu Begum

Gwerful Mechain

Hadewijch

Ḥafṣa bint al-Ḥājj ar-Rakūniyya

Hafsa bint Hamdun

Hajna bint Nusaib

Hamda bint Ziyad

Helene Kottanner

Herrard of Landsberg

Hildegard of Bingen

Hind

Hrotsvitha

Huarui furen

Ḥumayda bint Nu‘mān ibn Bashīr

I'timad Arrumaikiyya

Inpumon'in no Tayu

Ippolita Torelli Castiglione

Isabel de Villena

Ise no Taifu

Janabai

Izumi Shikibu

Jefimija

Julian of Norwich

Juml (Umm al-Ward al-Ajlaniyya)

Junii Tameko (Kyogoku, Fujiwara Tameko)

Kanhopatra

Karaikkal Ammaiyar

Kasa no Iratsume

Katherina von Gebersweiler

Khadija bint Ahmad ibn Kulthum al-Mu'afiri

Kenreimon'in Ukyo no Daibu (Lady Daibu)

Koshikibu no Naishi (The Koshikibu Handmaid)

Kunhuta

Lady Ise (Ise no Miyasudokoro)

Lady Nijo (Go-Fukakusa-in Nijo)

Lady Sarashina (Takasue's daughter, Sugawara no Takasue no musume)

Lady Wei

Laila bint Sa'd al-Aamiriyya

Laila bint Tarif

Lalleshwari

Laura Cereta

Layla Al-Khyaliyya

Leonor López de Córdoba

Li Qingzhao

Li Qingzhao (Li Ch'ing-Chao)

Li ye

Liu Poxi

Lubāna bint ‘Alī ibn al-Mahdī

Lubna of Cordova

Mahsati Ganjavi

Maisūn bint Jandal

Margareta Ebner

Margery Kempe

Marguerite Porete

Mariam bint Abu Ya'qub Ashshilbi

Marie de France

Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild von Hackeborn

Meera

Meng Shuqing

Michitsuna's Mother

Mihri Hatun

Muhja bint Attayani-Qurtubiyaa

Murasaki Shikibu

Nakatsukasa

Nakatsukasa no Naishi (Fujiwara Noriko, Lady Nakatsukasa)

Nazhun al-Garnatiya bint al-Qulai’iya

Nijoin no Sanuki

Ono no Komachi

Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume

Princess Nukata

Princess Oku

Princess Uchiko

Qasmūna bint Ismāʿil

Rābi‘ah-‘i Balkhī

Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya

Safiyya al-Baghdadiyya

Safwat al-Din Khatun

Sagami (Oto-Jiju)

Saint Angela of Foligno

Salma bint al-Qaratisi

Sanuki no Suke (Fujiwara Nagako)

Sarah of Yemen

Sei Shonagon

Shamsa al-Mawsiliyya

Shangguan Wan'er

Shāriyah

Shen Qionglian

Sheng xiaocong

Shikishi Naishinno (Princess Shikishi)

Shunzei's daughter

Sitt al-Ni‘m

Song Ruoshen (Ruoxian)

Soyarabai

Suo no Naishi (The Suo Handmaid)

Takashina no Takako (Takashina no Kishi, Kō no Naishi, Gidosanshi no Haha)

Thawab bint Abdullah al-Hanzaliyya

Trota (Trotula)

Ukon

Ulayya bint al-Mahdi

Umaima Addumarainiyya

Umm al-Ala bint Yusuf

Umm al-Kiram bin al-Mu'tasim ibn Sumadih

Umm al-Hana bint Abdulhaqq ibn Atiyya (Al-Rumaikiyya)

Umm Assa'd bint Isam al-Himyari

Umm Ja'far bint 'Ali

Anonymous Gotteszell author

Anonymous Otenbach author

Anonymous Diessenhoften author

Anonymous Weiler author

Veronica Gambara

Vittoria Colonna

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

Walatta Petros

Wang Qinghui

wife of Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat

ʿĀ’ishah bint Yūsuf al-Bāʿūniyyah

Wu Shi nu

Wu Zetian aka Empress Wu

Xia Yunying

Xu hui

xu yueying

Yan Rui

Yifen'er

Yu xuanji

Yūshi Naishinno-ke no Kii (Ichinomiya no Kii)

Zabba bint Umair ibn al-Muwarriq

Zahra al-Kilabiyya

Zhang Hngqiao

Zhang yaotiao

Zhang Yuniang

Zhao luanluan

Zheng Yunduan

Zhenzhen

Zhu Jing'an

Zhulian xiu

Zhu Shuzhen

Zou Saizhen

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