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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 Adelaide, Debra. Australian Women Writers: a bibliographical guide. Pandora, 1988. ISBN 978-0-86358-148-9 Bell, Maureen, et al., eds. A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580–1720. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn. American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide: From Colonial Times to the Present. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Contains biographical and critical essays on 1,328 American women writers Berney, K. A., et al., eds. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press, 1994. Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive) entries for over 2700 women writing in English (in various national traditions) Bloom, Abigail B. Nineteenth-century British Women Writers: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-313-30439-2 entries for over 90 British women writers of the nineteenth century Bloom, Harold, ed. British Women Fiction Writers of the 19th Century. Chelsea House, 1998. Bloom, Harold, ed. Caribbean Women Writers. Chelsea House, 1997. Bomariot, Jessica and Jeffrey W. Hunter, ed. Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. 6 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. Includes timelines and entries on individual authors: Vol. 1 from antiquity through the 18th century; vols. 2–3 on the 19th century; and vols. 4–6 on the 20th century. Buck, Claire, ed. The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) see List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature Champion, Laurie and Austin, Rhonda, eds. Contemporary American women fiction writers : an A-to-Z guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. entries for: Alice Adams, Julia Alvarez, Toni Cade Bambara, Andrea Barrett, Ann Beattie, Judy Blume, Rita Mae Brown, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Alice Childress, Sandra Cisneros, J. California Cooper, Ellen Douglas (Josephine Ayres Haxton), Louise Erdrich, Mary Gaitskill, Kaye Gibbons, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Shelby Hearon, Amy Hempel, Linda Hogan, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Gish Jen, Diane Johnson, Gayl Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Nanci Kincaid, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston, Harper Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Beverly Lowry, Paule Marshall, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jill McCorkle, Elizabeth McCracken, Colleen Johnson McElroy, Terry McMillan, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Joyce Carol Oates, Tillie Olsen, Cynthia Ozick, Grace (Goodside) Paley, Sara Paretsky, Ann Petry, Jayne Anne Phillips, Francine Prose, Marilynne Robinson, Mary Robison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jane Smiley, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Ann Tallent, Amy Tan, Melanie Rae Thon, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, Joy Williams. Colman, Anne U. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Irish Women Poets. Kenny's Bookshop, 1996. Intended to complement Weekes Unveiling Treasures. Dagg, Anne Innis. The Feminine Gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836–1945. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. includes brief biographies of 473 writers Fister, Barbara, ed. Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. Listings by country and region and alphabetical by author; includes bibliography of criticism. Gonzalez, Alexander G., ed. Irish Women Writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-313-32883-1 75 entries, by over 35 contributors, on: Linda Anderson, Ivy Bannister, Mary Beckett, Sara Berkeley, Maeve Binchy, Caroline Blackwood, Eavan Boland, Angela Bourke, Elizabeth Bowen, Clare Boylan, Elizabeth Brennan, Frances Browne, Mary Rose Callaghan, Moya Cannon, Marina Carr, Juanita Casey, Mary (Catherine Gunning Maguire) Colum, Julia Crottie, Geraldine Cummins, Ita Daly, Suzanne Day, Teresa Deevy, Anne Devlin, Eilis Dillon, Emma Donoghue, Mary Dorcey, Ellen Mary Patrick Downing, Maria Edgeworth, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Anne Enright, Mary E. (Mary Blundell) Frances, Miriam Gallagher, Sarah Grand, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, Rita Ann Higgins, Norah Hoult, Jennifer Johnston, Biddy Jenkinson, Marie Jones, Molly Keane, Eva Kelly, Rita Kelly, Mary Lavin, Emily Lawless, Joan Lingard, Deirdre Madden, Joy Martin, Medbh Mcguckian, Janet McNeill, Paula Meehan, Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Alice Milligan, Susan L. Mitchell, Lady Morgan, Val Mulkerns, Iris Murdoch, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Aine Ni Ghlinn, Mairead Ni Ghrada, Edna O'Brien, Kate O'Brien, Mary O'Donnell, Julia O'Faolain, Nuala O'Faolain, Mary O'Malley, Christina Reid, Somerville and Ross, Eithne Strong, Mary Tighe, Katharine Tynan, Lady Wilde, Sheila Wingfield Hammill, Faye, et al., eds. Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900–1950. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Harris, Sharon M., ed. American Women Prose Writers, 1870–1920. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. v. 221. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. entries on: Octavia Albert / Phoebe Jackson, Mary Antin / Betty Bergland, Mary Austin / Linda K. Karell, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr / Rose Norman, Lillie Devereux Blake / Grace Farrell, S. Alice Callahan / Annette Van Dyke, Kate McPhelim Cleary / Susanne George Bloomfield, Anna Julia Cooper / Jennifer A. Kohout, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) / Annmarie Pinarski, Alice Morse Earle / Katharine Gillespie, Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far) / Nicole Tonkovich, Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) / Maureen Honey, Sarah Barnwell Elliott / Susan Neal Mayberry, Annie Adams Fields / Deborah M. Evans, Mary Hallock Foote / Victoria Lamont, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman / Marylynne Diggs, Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Robin Miskolcze, Emma Goldman / Priscilla Wald, Anna Katharine Green / Marie T. Farr, Susan Hale / Karen Dandurand, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper / Maggie Montesinos Sale, Constance Cary Harrison (Mrs. Burton Harrison) / Kathy Ryder, Mary Jane Holmes / Barbara J. 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