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Women who wrote

Eight books by women, a thousand years apart. A court in Kyoto, a monster in Geneva, a party in London.

The works, in reading order

  1. 1. The Pillow Book Sei Shōnagon · c. 1002
  2. 2. The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu · 1010s
  3. 3. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813
  4. 4. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley · 1818
  5. 5. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1847
  6. 6. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë · 1847
  7. 7. Middlemarch George Eliot · 1871 to 1872
  8. 8. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf · 1925

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