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They marked a before and after in current literature thanks to their works and their extraordinary talent. Do you want to know who they are about?
Creating a list of the 10 best writers in history is not an easy task. However, it is true that, over time, some women have paved the way and have served as inspiration with their works to reach current literature.
For this reason, we have chosen to choose those writers who marked a before and after thanks to their art. Specifically, to her most important works. Can you come with us?
The 10 best women writers in history
If you are curious to know who the 10 best writers in history are, what they wrote and when, we invite you to continue reading.
1. Christine de Pizan / Italy (1364-1430)
She was born in Venice, but lived at the French court from a very young age, where she received an education that was usually reserved only for men. Her passion for literature was awakened by having access to the Royal Library of the Louvre Palace and she soon stood out as a writer, philosopher and humanist due to her wit and ease of speech.
Upon the death of his father, his collection of poems One Hundred Ballads He achieved great success in both France and England. This allowed her to recover her economic and social status, being classified as the first professional writer in history.
Christine took advantage of this situation to criticize the misogynistic behaviors of society. In this sense, His best-known work is The City of Ladies (1405), which is considered the precursor of Western feminism and is located at the beginning of the so-called women’s complaint (a literary debate about the situation of women and their defense against subordination).
2. Saint Teresa of Jesus / Spain (1515-1582)
Interested in religion and fond of chivalric novels since she was a child, it will not be until 1535 when she realizes that her true vocation lies in the convent and enters the Encarnación.
As the years passed, Saint Teresa of Jesus He began to have visions and mystical experiences that inspired his work. Along these lines, The Book of Life emerged (like many other texts) because it was material for her confessor, who encouraged her to tell her teachings and visions.
Added to this love of literature was the founding of convents (17 throughout his life) as his main mission. Despite the close surveillance to which she was subjected by the Inquisition, The nun has become the summit (along with Saint John of the Cross) of experimental Christian mysticism.
3. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz / Mexico (1648-1695)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a writer from the Spanish Golden Age who He elevated baroque poetry to its highest expression. In fact, for many she was considered “the tenth muse”, since she cultivated various genres:
Lyric.Auto sacramental.Theatre.Prose.
He learned to read and write at the age of three and, from a very young age, his verses stood out in the viceregal court of New Spain.
On the other hand, she rejected marriage and entered several convents, where she would create some of her most important works such as The Divine Narcissus either The Response to Sister Filotea de la Cruza manifesto that defends women’s right to education.
4. Jane Austen / United Kingdom (1775-1817)
Born into a family of the agrarian bourgeoisie, she was educated by her father and had a quiet life with occasional trips through England that generally served as inspiration for her writings.
From 1809, the family moved to Chawton and it was there that he found the tranquility necessary to publish his works. In fact, in his most recognized work, Pride and Prejudice (1813) , There is a masterful, ironic, traditional, acidic and personal portrait of the peaceful life that the rural bourgeoisie of their time led through different characters.
5. Mary Shelley / United Kingdom (1797-1851)
She was a British writer, playwright, essayist and biographer. In this line, She is mainly recognized for being the author of the gothic novel Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (1818)which is considered the first modern science fiction novel and which managed to inaugurate the genre.
Framed in the tradition of the Gothic novel, the story deals with various topics of interest for the romantic era: scientific morality, the creation and destruction of life, or the daring of humanity in its relationship with God. Thus, the novel ends with the creature’s confession that he will end his miserable existence.
6. Rosalía de Castro / Spain (1837-1885)
The illegitimate daughter of a noblewoman and a priest, Rosalía de Castro has gone down in history for being one of the great poets of the Spanish 19th centuryprecursor of modern Spanish poetry along with the great Bécquer.
He wrote both in Galician and Spanish. In fact, he is one of the emblematic figures of the Galician Rexurdimento or the renaissance of Galician literature, which had practically disappeared for a century before.
“Kneeling before the rough image,
my spirit, immersed in the infinite,
impious perhaps, questioning the sky
and to hell at the same time, I tremble and hesitate.
What are we? What is death? The bell
with its echoes it answers my moans
from the height, and without effort the plain
hotly bathes my thin face.
What horrible suffering! You just
You can see it and understand it, my God!”-“A firefly shines among the moss”, On the banks of the Sar (1884)-
His style mixed the personal with the natural, denoting anxiety and restlessness in many cases. In this way, the texts he wrote went from the purest social criticism to metaphysical doubts, loneliness, death and distancing from reality due to the depression he suffered due to the death of his son.
7. Agatha Christie / United Kingdom (1890-1976)
Agatha Christie, master of suspense and mystery novels, She is the best-selling author after Shakespeare and the Bible. According to him Guinness Book of Recordshis works have been adapted countless times.
It was reading authors such as Wilkie Collins or Arthur Conan Doyle that sparked his interest in reading and made him write his first detective novels. In his first work, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, he already introduced the colorful detective who would star in much of his work: Hercule Poirot.
8. Emily Dickinson / United States (1830-1886)
Without Emily Dickinson, critics warn that contemporary poetry could not have been achieved. Born in Amherst, over the years she decided to isolate herself from the outside world and social life from a very young age, maintaining correspondence only with some of her acquaintances.
From the 1860s, he abandoned the lyrical style typical of the time and He developed an intimate, sentimental and profound poetry due to his Puritan teaching.
“In my flower I have hidden
so that, if you carried me in your chest,
without suspecting it you were also there…
And only the angels will know the rest.
In my flower I have hidden
so that, as I slip from your glass,
you, without knowing it, feel
almost the loneliness that I have left you.”–In my flower I have hidden–
It is because of that During his lifetime, only 5 of his poems were published; since she did not want them to come to light. Years after her death, more than 1,800 lyrical texts and various letters were known thanks to her sister and conquered critics and the public, making her one of the great poets of the United States along with Walt Whitman or Edgar Allan Poe.
9. Simone de Beauvoir/ France (1908-1996)
Recognized along with Virginia Woolf and her “room of her own” as one of the greatest figures fighting for women’s rights in the second wave of feminism, was a French philosopher, teacher and writer.
He wrote novels, essays, biographies and monographs on political, social and philosophical topics. So, his work The Second Sex (1949) was a before and after not only for literature, but also for current thought; since it broke with the classic differential aspect between women and men.
10. JK Rowling / United Kingdom (1965-present)
Although you probably already know it, we present it to you. JK Rowling (who writes under a pseudonym) is a British writer, film producer and screenwriter. Known worldwide for being the author of the book series Harry Potter (1997), which have sold more than five hundred million copies.
Of course, literary criticism highlights the great novelty of this work for the fantastic genre: a hybridity of epic, satirical, traditional and police elements that build a plausible story for the reader’s imagination.
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The best writers in history open the doors to new literature
The Brönte sisters, Clara Janés, Gloria Fuertes, Isabel Allende, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Gabriela Mistral… These are just some of the writers who, unfortunately, have been left out of the list. However, they have also marked a before and after for new literature and their works must be taken into account.
In this line, there are artists who make their way thanks to the contributions of the best writers in history and their own personal essence: Dolores Redondo, Elvira Lindo, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Laura Gallego, etc. And you? Are you going to miss them?
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