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Women Who Wrote the Novel

Brontë, Eliot, Wharton, Gaskell, Chopin, Gilman.

The nineteenth-century novel was shaped as much by women as by men, often under pseudonyms. Middlemarch is regularly called the greatest English novel; Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre were written in the same parsonage; The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper anticipate the twentieth century by decades.