Women Writers Posters & Prints, pg 8/10
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.

Nelly Leonie Sachs,
German Poet and Dramatist
b. 12-10-1891; Germany
d. 5-12-1970

Nelly Leonie Sachs was a German poet and dramatist who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature for her "poignant expression of the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews". Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950) is her best-known play.

George Sand
b. 7-1-1804; France
d. 6-8-1876

George Sand was the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant. She began wearing men's clothing because they wore longer and were less expensive than an aristocrat's dress, and enabled her to gain access to places in Paris that might have been denied to a woman of her social standing. She was a companion to Frederic Chopin, friends with Franz Liszt, Gustave Flaubert, and actress Marie Dorval.

• Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand

Black Beauty
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Mary Wollestoncraft Godwin Shelley, author of Frankenstein, Giclee Print
b. 8-30-1797; London
d. 2-1-1851; England

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Anne-Louise de Stael, French Salon Hostess Writer and Patron of the Arts, Giclee Print
b. 4-22-1766; Paris
d. 7-14-1817; England

• Madame de Stael: Selected Correspondence

Gertrude Stein
b. 2-3-1874; Pennsylvania
d. 7-27-1946; France

Gertrude Stein was an American expatriate (a person residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing or legal residence) writer who is considered to have been a primary mover in the development of modern art and literature in the early 20th century." Her Paris salon was a who's who of artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Alfred North Whitehead, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Thornton Wilder, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. "A rose is a rose is a rose."

• Selected Writings
of Gertrude Stein

Harriet Beecher Stowe Writers Who Changed the World Wall Poster
b. 6-14-1811, CT
d. 7-1-1896

Abolitionist and novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery. Historians consider her efforts a significant force in leading to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln said, when he met Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great great war!"

• Harriet Beecher Stowe posters
• more Writers Who Changed the World posters