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Women In Literature

written by: Delia
 
Women and literature have always gone hand in hand. Nobody can express the tender soul vibrations and intense feelings as well as a woman can.

Question 1:


This female poet lived between 630 and 612 BC on the island of Lesbos in Greece. She was considered a lyricist because the poems she wrote were to be performed with the accompaniment of a lyre.
Maya Angelou
Sarojini Naidu
Pindar
Sappho

Question 2:


This Arab poetess was born in 1001 in the family of the Caliph of Cordova. After the death of her father, she inherited a tremendous wealth, which helped her to open a salon for writers.
Walladah Al-Mustakfi
Sarojini Naidu
Hanan Ashrawi
Gabriela Mistral

Question 3:


This lady is a famous English novelist. Her first novel "Northanger Abbey" was published posthumously. In addition, 100 years after her death, 3 volumes of her juvenilia were also published.
Elizabeth Browning
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte

Question 4:


When her family discovered her poetic talent, they urged this English author and her two sisters to publish a collective volume of their works. The sisters used male pen names, as there were prejudices against female authors at the time. Later, she published her only novel 'Wuthering Heights', which became a literary classic.
Carol Anshaw
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte

Question 5:


This female author became famous for her poems devoted to her husband Robert, who was also a famed poet. She met him at the age of 39.
Angela Jackson
Margaret Walker
Carol Anshaw
Elizabeth Browning

Question 6:


This author was devoted to the antislavery campaign. She wanted to do something to help this cause and one day, while in church, she decided to write a novel about slavery. Today this is her most famous work.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Katherine Porter
Kate Chopin
Alice Walker

Question 7:


This author was a convinced vegetarian. That is why her most famous character - Frankenstein is also a vegetarian.
Kate Chopin
Katherine Porter
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley

Question 8:


She is one of Russia's greatest poetesses of the 20th century. Her real name was Anna Gorenko but she adopted a pen name because of her father. He was afraid that a poetess would bring shame to the family.
Mary Ann Evans
Marina Tsvetaeva
Tatyana Shcherbina
Anna Akhmatova

Question 9:


This is one of Latin America's foremost writers. She is considered to be one of the initiators of Latin American feminist literary awakening. She has a special tradition of her own - to start every new book on January 8th .
Isabel Allende
Juana de Ibarbourou
Delia Galvan
Barbara Mujica

 
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