List of biographical dictionaries of women writers in English

There are a large and ever growing number of biographical dictionaries of women writers. These works reflect the emergence of women's literature as a flourishing field of academic study over the past few decades. The genre also draws on a much older literary tradition of biographical collections of exemplary women.

This list includes biobibliographical dictionaries, in which biographical detail is provided alongside bibliographical information.

The dictionaries

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