Who are the funniest female authors – whether poets, novelists, or writers of short fiction or non-fiction – in the English language? Reducing the number to just ten names is going to be a challenge, but here’s our essential pick of the funniest female voices in English (or English-language, more […]
The mysterious life of an early English woman poet Isabella Whitney is not a familiar name to many readers of poetry, and in many ways this is hardly surprising. But here at Interesting Literature we like to keep one eye out for the curious but overlooked, the obscure but interesting […]
Selected by Dr Oliver Tearle The first named writer in world history was a woman, Enheduanna. The sonnet form was Italian in origin, of course, but a host of English poets have made it their own: Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Auden, and many besides. But what is often overlooked is […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The first named writer in world history was a woman, Enheduanna. Below are ten of the best short poems by women poets from over three centuries of English poetry (and by ‘English’ we mean ‘written in the English language’ – several of the names […]