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Women Writers

16th Century

Original: Gulbadan Banu, daughter of Mughal Emperor Babur, wrote the biography of her brother, Emperor Humayun.

Edited: Gulbadan Begum, daughter of Mughal's founding Emperor Babur wrote the biography of her brother, Emperor Humayun. Though only 8 when her father died, Gulbadan was asked years later by her nephew to write the story of her father and brother. Only one manuscript of her book, Humayunnama, has been found.

Black Women Writers in the United States

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Black women continued writing throughout the Great Depression to the 1960's. This was a time of abundance for black female writers, who received recognition like never before. They traveled for lecturing, reading and even made recordings of their work. The only black female writer to receive prominent recognition in the twentieth century is Zora Neale Hurston. This was mostly because she was considered an "oddball."

Sentences I paraphrased from source:

"The only female of the period to receive substantial recognition is Zora Neale Hurston-but only as an "oddball" eccentric who wrote folktales and ran around measuring Negro heads."

"Many of them took to the road, lecturing and reading."

Western American Women Writers

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Caroline M. Kirkland

Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. There is little printed recordings on women's writing in the Western United States because establishing the field involved measures that were not seen as scholarly achievement. Caroline Kirkland, born in 1801, was considered the first women writer to confidently share the West. She wrote the novel, A New Home—Who'll Follow? after moving to the West with husband, William Kirkland. Published under the pseudonym Mary Clavers, the novel is a tale of the frontierswoman, and is important for its realism and celebration of the traditional female perspective.

Sentences I paraphrased from source:

"In 1965, the Western Literature Association (wla) was founded and began publishing its journal, Western American Literature."

"If the early decades of the print record on women’s writing of the American West reveal little activity, it is not because scholars were not writing; rather, the task of establishing the field involved work that was not visible to conventional measures of scholarly achievement."

"Perhaps the most famous woman writer to debunk the myth of the West was Caroline Kirkland, author of the Northwestern novel, A New Home—Who’ll Follow?, or, Glimpses of Western Life (1839). Born in 1801, Caroline Stansbury moved west after her marriage to William Kirkland in 1828."

"A New Home—Who’ll Follow?, published under the pseudonym Mary Clavers, describes the experience of a relatively well-educated middle-class white woman transported to the American frontier by virtue of her husband’s ambition."