1. Sylvia Plath.
2. Doris Lessing.
3. Edith Wharton.
4. Virginia Woolf.
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5. Anne Sexton.
6. Alice B. Sheldon.
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Better known by her pen name, James Tiptree, Jr..
7. Agatha Christie.
8. Dorothy Parker.
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9. Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
10. Iris Chang.
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11. Marilynne Robinson.
12. A.S. Byatt.
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13. Flannery O'Connor.
14. Toni Morrison.
15. Noel Streatfeild.
16. Anne Frank.
