List of women novelists before Jane Austen
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Dale Spender listed 106 'women novelists before Jane Austen' in her classic Mothers of the Novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen (1986):
- Penelope Aubin
- Jane Barker
- Anna Maria Bennett (whom Spender calls Agnes Maria Bennett)
- Elizabeth Bonhôte
- Elizabeth Boyd
- Sophie Briscoe
- Eliza Bromley
- Frances Brooke
- Indiana Brooks
- Mary Brunton
- Mrs Burke
- Fanny Burney
- Sarah Harriet Burney
- Lady Charlotte Bury
- Mary Butt, Mrs Sherwood
- Lady Mary Champion de Crespigny
- Charlotte Charke
- Mary Charlton
- Harriet Chilcot
- Emily Clark
- Jane Collier
- Mary Collyer
- Anne Seymour Damer
- Mary Davis
- Anne Dawe
- Anne Eden
- Maria Edgeworth
- Elisa Fenwick
- Sarah Fielding
- E. M. Foster
- Anne Fuller
- Phoebe Gibbes
- Mrs A. Gomershall
- Sarah Green
- Elizabeth Griffith
- Susannah Minifie Gunning
- Elizabeth Hamilton
- Lady Mary Hamilton
- Mary Ann Hanway
- Laetitia Matilda Hawkins
- Mary Hays
- Mary Hearne
- Elizabeth Helme
- Elizabeth Hervey
- Mrs Howell
- Anne Hughes
- M. (Harley) Hugill
- Maria Hunter
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Susanna Keir
- Isabella Kelly
- Anne Kerr
- Sophia King
- Ellis Cornelia Knight
- Sarah Lansdell
- Mary Latter
- Harriet Lee
- Sophia Lee
- Charlotte Lennox
- Charlotte MacCarthy
- Anna Maria Mackenzie
- Jean Marshall
- Eliza Matthews
- Anna Meades
- Mary Meeke
- Margaret Minifie
- Hannah More
- Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)
- Elizabeth Norman
- Amelia Opie
- Charlotte Palmer
- Mary Elizabeth Parker
- Catherine Parry
- Eliza Phelp Parsons
- Susanna Pearson
- M. Peddle
- Mary Pilkington
- Mary Pix
- Arabella Plantin
- Elizabeth Plunkett
- Ann Radcliffe
- Mary Anne Radcliffe
- Clara Reeve
- Mary Darby Robinson
- Regina Maria Dalton Roche
- Elizabeth Singer Rowe
- Susanna Rowson
- Elizabeth Ryves (or Elizabeth Reeves)
- Charlotte Sanders (or Charlotte Saunders)
- Sarah Robinson Scott
- Frances Sheridan
- Ann Emelinda Skinn
- Eleanor Sneath
- Charlotte Smith
- Sarah Emma Spencer
- Miss Taylor
- Jane Timbury
- Elizabeth Tomlins
- Jane Warton
- Jane West
- Helena Wells
- Helen Maria Williams
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Mrs A. Woodfin
- Ann Yearsley
- Mary Julia Young
