A Celebration of Women Writers: 3000 BC

WRITERS LIVING BETWEEN 3000 BC AND 1000

'Anan (-ca.846)
Abbad, Afira bint [aka Ashshamus] (fl. 3rd c. CE)
Addumainiyya, Umaima (fl.747)
Adelwip [aka Adelheid von Schaerbeck; Adelviva] (-1000)
al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a [aka Rabi'a the Mystic; Rabia al Basri] (ca.717-ca.802) ; More Information
al-'Akhyaliyya, Layla (-709)
al-Aadiyya, Mahd (4000 BCE)
al-Aamiriyya, Laila bint Sa'd (-688)
al-Baghdadiyya, Aasiya (fl.830)
al-Khansa [aka Tumadir bint Amr ibn Ashsharid] (-646)
al-Kilabiyya, Zahra (fl.820)
al-Ma'muniyya, Arib (797-890)
al-Mahdi, Lubana bint Ali ibn (787-813)
al-Mahdi, Ulayya bint (777-825)
al-Mu'tasim, Aa'isha bint (fl.820)
Ambapali (ca.560-480 B.C.)
Anonymous (600 B.C.)
Antal [aka Goda; Kotai] (fl. 850)
Anyte of Tegea (fl.4th Century B.C.)
Arete of Cyrene (fl.370 B.C.)
Ashsha'ira, Fadl (-871)
Auvaiyar (bef. 300)
Bahdal, Maisun bint (-700)
Ban Zhao (ca.52-125)
Baudonivia (fl. 600)
Cai Yen [aka Cai Wenji] (177-)
Dhuoda of Septimania (fl. 9th century) ; More Information
Egeria [aka Etheria; Ætheria] (fl. 5th Century AD) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
- The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work) (HTNL at CCEL)
Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon (ca. 2280-2200 B.C.) ; More Information
Eudocia [aka Athenais-Eudocia; Eudokia] (ca.400-460)
Hamdun, Hatsa bint (fl.10th c.)
Hrotsvitha [aka Roswitha von Gandersheim; Hrotsvit of Gandersheim; Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis; Rosvita] (ca.935 C.E.-1000 C.E.) ; More Information
Hygeburg [aka Hugeburc; Huneburc] (fl.761)
Hypatia of Alexandria (ca.370-415 AD) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
Inan (-841)
Ise no go (Lady Ise) [aka Ise no miyasudokoro] (ca.875-ca.938)
Iwa no Hime, Empress (-347)
Izumi Shikibu (974-)
- Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1920) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Kaji (late 17 Century-early 18th Century)
Karu, Princess [aka Sotoshi] (5th c.)
Kasa, Lady (ca. 8th century)
Kassiane [aka Kassia] (ca. 805)
Kulaib, Umama bint (-494)
Lukaiz, Laila bint (-483)
Maria the Jewess [aka Miriam the Prophetess; Maria Prophetissima; Mary of Cleofa] (fl.1st Century A.D.) ; More Information
Mas-hal, Dahna bint (fl.700)
Michitsuna no haha [aka Udaisho Michitsuna no haha] (ca.935-995)
Muhammad, Fatima bint (605-632)
Murasaki, Lady [aka Murasaki Shikibu] (ca.978-ca.1031) ; More Information ; More Information
- Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1920) (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Tale of Genji (HTML with commentary at unesco.org)
Murra, Jalila bint (-540)
Nukata, Princess (ca. 638-ca.690)
Nusaib, Hajna bint (fl.791)
Oku, Princess (661-701)
Ono no Komachi (ca.834-)
Otokami, S. (ca. 8th century)
Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume (ca. 8th century)
Perpetua, Vibia (-203) ; More Information ; More Information
Proba, Faltonia Betitia (fl.4th Century AD)
Radegund [aka Radegunda; Radegundus] (ca.520-587)
Sappho (ca.612 B.C.-) ; More Information
- The Poems of Sappho (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English (Portland, ME: Smith and Sale, 1910) (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Selected works and commentary (HTML at classicpersuasion.org)
Sei Shonagon (965 or 967-aft.1010)
Senshi Naishinno (964-1035)
Sotori, Princess [aka Sotoshi] (5th c.)
Sulpicia daughter of Servius (fl.1st Century B.C.)
Sulpicia wife of Calenus (fl.1st Century A.D.)
Tarif, Laila bint (-815)
Theano of Croton (ca.5th Century B.C.)
Tsogyal, Yeshe [aka Ye-ses-mtsho-rgyal] (later 700s-800s)
Wang Zhaojun [aka Wang Qiang] (fl.1st Century B.C.)
Xue Tao [aka Hsueh Tao] (ca.768-ca.831)
Yata no Waki-iratsume, Princess (4th c.)
Yu Xuanji [aka Yu Hsuan-chi] (ca.844-ca.871)
Zhuo Wenjun (fl.1st Century B.C.)