• Sappho
    630 BCE

    Sappho

  • 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.
  • Marie de France
    1160

    Marie de France

  • 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.
  • Queen Elizabeth I
    1533

    Queen Elizabeth I

  • Aemilia Lanyer
    1569

    Aemilia Lanyer

  • Mary Wroth

    Mary Wroth

  • Anne Bradstreet

    Anne Bradstreet

  • Aphra Behn

    Aphra Behn

  • 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

    Mary Chudleigh

  • Eliza Haywood

    Eliza Haywood

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld

    Anna Letitia Barbauld

  • Judith Sargent Murray

    Judith Sargent Murray

  • Phyllis Wheatley

    Phyllis Wheatley

  • Mary Wollstonecraft is a Brilliant Bad Ass!

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Brilliant Bad Ass!

  • Sojourner Truth is a Brilliant Bad Ass!

    Sojourner Truth is a Brilliant Bad Ass!

  • 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

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • Harriet Jacobs

    Harriet Jacobs

  • Frances E.W. Harper

    Frances E.W. Harper

  • Emily Dickinson

    Emily Dickinson

  • Kate Chopin

    Kate Chopin

  • Sui Sin Far

    Sui Sin Far

  • Zitkala Sa

    Zitkala Sa

  • Radclyffe Hall

    Radclyffe Hall

  • Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf

  • H.D.

    H.D.

  • Marianne Moore

    Marianne Moore

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    Zora Neale Hurston

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • Marita Bonner

    Marita Bonner

  • Period: to

    Early Twentieth Century

    WWI, trench warfare, flapper (New Woman), globalized, industrialized, crisis of faith
  • Gwendolyn Brooks

    Gwendolyn Brooks

  • Anne Sexton

    Anne Sexton

  • Adrienne Rich

    Adrienne Rich

  • Sylvia Plath

    Sylvia Plath

  • 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

    Leslie Marmon Silko

  • Rita Dove

    Rita Dove

  • Sandra Cisneros

    Sandra Cisneros

  • Gish Jen

    Gish Jen

  • Kelly Sue Deconnick

    Kelly Sue Deconnick