Louisa May Alcott

• Little Women
• Jo’s Boys
• Behind a Mask, or A Woman’s Power

Mildred Aldrich

• A Hilltop on the Marne

Jane Austen

• Sense and Sensibility
• Persuasion
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma

Eugenia Bacon

• Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South

Anna Maynard Barbour

• That Mainwaring Affair

Isabella Lucy Bird

• A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains

Mary Hastings Bradley

• The Fortieth Door

Anne Brontë

• The Tenant of Windfell Hall

Charlotte Brontë

• “On the Death of Anne Brontë”
• Jane Eyre
• Villette

Emily Brontë

• Wuthering Heights

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• “A Man’s Requirements”
• Aurora Leigh

Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Secret Garden

Fanny Burney

• Evelina

Clara Louise Burnham

• Instead of the Thorn

María Enriqueta Camarillo

Rosalía de Castro

• “The Atmosphere is Incandescent” 

Willa Cather

• My Antonia
• Song of the Lark
• O Pioneers!

Margaret Cavendish

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

Kate Chopin

• The Awakening
• At Fault

Agatha Christie

• The Secret Adversary
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hannah Crafts

Julia C. Collins

Charlotte Dacre

Maria Edgeworth

• Belinda

George Eliot

• Middlemarch

Augusta J. Evans

• St. Elmo

Fanny Fern

• Ruth Hall

Martha Finley

Margaret Fuller

• Woman in the 19th Century
• Summer on the Lake

Mary Eliza Fullerton

Elizabeth Gaskell

• North and South

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• The Yellow Wallpaper
• Herland

Anna Katherine Green

• That Affair Next Door

Evelyn Everett Green

Sui Sin Far

• Miss Spring Fragrance

Charlotte Forten Grimké

• “Charles Sumner”

Angelina Weld Grimké

• “Evanescence”

Frances Harper

• Iola Leroy
• Minnie’s Sacrifice
• Trial and Triumph
• Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story

Ho Xuan Huong

• “Jackfruit”

Helen Hunt Jackson

Harriet Jacobs

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Sarah Orne Jewett

• The Country of the Pointed Firs
• A Country Doctor

Qiu Jin

• “Capping Rhymes with Sir Ishii From Sun’s Root Land”

Emily Pauline Johnson

• “Marshlands” 

Mary Johnson

Elizabeth Keckley

• Behind the Scenes

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Amy Lowell

• “Solitaire”
• “Sunshine”

Anna Margolin

L.M. Montgomery

• Anne of Green Gables

Sarojini Naidu

Andre Alice Norton

• The Time Traders
• Plague Ship

Emma Orczy

• The Scarlet Pimpernel

Ann Radcliffe

• The Romance of the Forest

Ōtagaki Rengetsu

Mary Roberts Rinehart

• The Window at the White Cat
• The Circular Staircase

Christina Rossetti

• “Amor Mundi”

Emmeline Pankhurst

• Suffragette: My Own Story

Gene Stratton-Porter

• A Girl of the Limberlost

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

• The Gates Ajar

Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)

• American Indian Stories
• “Why I am a Pagan”

Jane Johnson Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay)

Anna Sewell

• Black Beauty

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• Frankenstein

Murasaki Shikibu

• The Tale of Genji

Sei Shōnagon

Joanna Southcott

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

Johanna Spyri

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred: The Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Sojourner Truth

• Narrative of Sojourner Truth
• “Ain’t I a Woman?”

Salomé Ureña

• “In Defense of Society”

Elizabeth von Arnim

• The Enchanted April

Ida B. Wells

Rebecca West

• The Return of the Soldier
• The Judge

Harriet E. Wilson

• Our Nig

Edith Wharton

• Ethan Frome
• House of Mirth
• Age of Innocence

Phillis Wheatley

• “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works”
• “On Imagination”
• “A Hymn to Evening”

Virginia Woolf

• Jacob’s Room
• The Voyage Out

Charlotte Mary Yonge

• The Clever Woman of the Family
• The Heir of Redclyffe
• The Caged Lion

Akiko Yosano

• “River of Stars”

Wu Zao

Zēb-un-Nisā (poem)

 

This is an ever-growing list. If I’ve missed someone, it’s just because I haven’t found her yet, so shout it out in the comments. Suggestions must be:

• In the public domain (because copyright law). This means that, most of the time, books must have been published pre-1923. Free full texts and ebooks are a plus.
• Either written in or translated into English (translations often have copyrights of their own, so this can get tricky).