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The term
Modernism describes the modernist movement in the arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to
Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of
World War I , were among the factors that shaped Modernism.
This is a partial list of
modernist
women writers .
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), Austrian poet and author
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc.
Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer
Bryher (1894–1983), British novelist, activist
Mary Butts (1890–1937), British novelist
Kate Chopin (1851–1904), American novelist, short story writer
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927), German-American poet
Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Iranian poet, film director
H.D. (1886–1961), American poet, novelist, memoirist
Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943), British novelist, poet
Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright, memoirist
Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981), Australian poet
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), American novelist
Mary Hutchinson (1889–1977), British short story writer
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), Jewish German poet
Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet
Mina Loy (1882–1966), British poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American poet
Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978), British poet
Marianne Moore (1887–1972), American poet and essayist
Adalgisa Nery (1905–1980), Brazilian poet and journalist
Silvina Ocampo (1903–1994), Argentine poet, short-fiction writer
Jean Rhys (1890–1979), Caribbean novelist
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), New Zealand short story writer
Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), British novelist
May Sinclair (1863–1946), British novelist and short story writer.
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American poet, playwright, essayist, etc.
Edith Södergran (1892–1923) Swedish-speaking Finnish poet
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, short story writer
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, short-fiction writer
See also