About 1930 women novelists dominated the literary scene. They followed in the footstep of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, and George Eliot.
These novelists represented the feminine point of view in their works.
The famous women novelists of the 20th century
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Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
Like George Eliot, Henrietta Richardson brought out her novels under the pseudonym of Henry Handel Richardson.
She is interested in Australian life and her works are marked with a note of masculinity and vigor surprising in a woman writer.
Her main works are Maurice Guest (1908), Young Cosima (1939), and The Fortunes of Richard Mobony (1917-1929), a trilogy representing the study of the misadventures of the physician hero in Australia.
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Dorothy Richardson (1872-1946)
Dorothy Richardson Belongs to the school of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She has made experiments in the fields of psychological analysis and has achieved success in her work.
Her main works are Pointed Roofs (1915) and Pilgrimage (1917).
In these works, she presents the feminine point of view, and no woman has succeeded so well in presenting feminine psychology as Miss Richardson, in her two works.
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In her first two novels, The Divine Fire (1904) and The Combined Maze (1913) May Sinclair showed much ability in portraying drab and meaningful lives, with their jumped pathos, kindliness, and folly.
Her other famous novels are The Life and Death of Harriett Fream (1922) and The Allinghams (1927), in which she made use of the ‘stream of consciousness’ technique.
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Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
The most popular modern English writer of detective stories is Agatha Christie. She wrote purely as an entertainer, and her ingenuity persisted through more than fifty detective novels from The Mysterious Affair of Styles (1920), while she improved greatly as a writer in later books.
Her most famous work is The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1942)
Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the eminent Victorian Critic and scholar Sir Leslie Stephen and was one of the great women writers of the 20th century.
She occupies a position of importance in 20th-century fiction for she gave to the stream-of-consciousness novel a new twist that James Joyce had not been able to impart to it.
The first noble of significance published by Virginia Woolf was The Voyage Out (1915) followed by Night and Day (1919). In these works, Virginia Woolf made a subtle study of the inner lives of men and women.
