WRITERS LIVING BETWEEN 3000 BC AND 1000

• 'Anan ( - ca. 846)
• Abbad, Afira bint [aka Ashshamus] (fl. 3th cent.)
• 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 ; More Information
• al-'Akhyaliyya, Layla ( - 709)
• al-Aadiyya, Mahd (fl. 4001 BC)
• 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 BC - 480 BC)
• Anonymous (fl. 601 BC)
• Antal [aka Goda; Kotai] (fl. 850)
• Anyte, of Tegea (fl. 4th cent. BC)
• Arete of Cyrene (fl. 371 BC)
• Ashsha'ira, Fadl ( - 871)
• Auvaiyar (fl. 280 - 299)
• Bahdal, Maisun bint ( - 700)
• Ban, Zhao, ca. 49-ca. 120 [aka Pan Chao; Cao Dagu] (ca. 49 - ca. 120)
• Baudonivia, 6th-7th cent. (fl. 600 - 602) ; More Information
• Cai, Wenji, ca. 177-ca. 239 [aka Cai Yen] (ca. 177 - ca. 239)
• Dhuoda [aka comtessa de Barcelona i de Septimània Duoda] (fl. 9th cent.) ; More Information ; More Information
• Egeria, 4th/5th cent. [aka Egeria; Etheria; Ætheria] (fl. 5th cent.) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
  • The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work) (HTML at CCEL)
• Enheduanna [aka daughter of Sargon Enheduanna] (fl. 2350 - 2200 BC) ; More Information ; More Information
• Eudocia, consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, d. 460 [aka Eudokia; Athenais] (ca. 400 - October 20, 460)
• Hamdun, Hatsa bint (fl. 900 - 1000)
• Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca. 975 [aka Roswitha von Gandersheim; Hrotsvit of Gandersheim; Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis; Rosvita] (ca. 930 - ca. 975) ; More Information ; More Information
• Hygeburg [aka Hugeburc; Huneburc] (fl. 778)
• Hypatia, d. 415 [aka of Alexandria Hypatia] (ca. 370 - 415) ; More Information ; 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, b. 974? (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)
• Karu, Princess [aka Sotoshi] (fl. 5th cent.)
• Kasa, Iratsume, 8th cent. (fl. 701)
• Kassiane [aka Kassia] (fl. 805) ; More Information
• Kulaib, Umama bint ( - 494)
• Lukaiz, Laila bint ( - 483)
• Maria the Jewess [aka Miriam the Prophetess; Maria Prophetissima; Mary of Cleofa] (fl. 1st cent.) ; More Information
• Mas-hal, Dahna bint (fl. 700)
• Michitsuna no Haha, ca. 935-995 [aka Udaisho Michitsuna no haha] (ca. 935 - 995)
• Muhammad, Fatima bint (605 - 632)
• Murasaki Shikibu, b. 978? [aka Lady Murasaki] (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)
  • Genji Monogatari (From "Japanese Literature"; New York: Colonial Press, 1900) (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
  • The Tale of Genji (HTML with commentary at unesco.org)
• Murra, Jalila bint ( - 540)
• Nukada no Okimi [aka Princess Nukata] (ca. 638 - ca. 690)
• Nusayb al-Asghar ( - 791)
• Oku, Princess, daughter of Tenmu, Emperor of Japan (661 - 701)
• Ono, Komachi, 9th cent. (ca. 834 - )
• Ono, Komachi, 9th cent. (fl. 850)
• Otokami, S. (fl. 9th cent.)
• Otomo no Sakanoue Iratsume (fl. 8th cent.)
• Perpetua, Saint, d. 203 [aka Vibia Perpetua] (ca. 181 - March 7, 202) ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information ; More Information
• Proba, 4th cent. [aka Faltonia Betitia Proba] (fl. 4th cent.)
• Radegunda, Queen, consort of Clotaire I, King of the Franks, d. 587 [aka Saint Radegunda] (ca. 520 - August 13, 587) ; More Information
• Sagami, b. ca. 998 [aka Otojiju] (ca. 998 - )
• Sappho (fl. 613 BC) ; 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, b. ca. 967 (ca. 965 - ca. 1010) ; More Information ; Wikipedia
• Senshi, Princess, daughter of Murakami, Emperor of Japan, 964-1035 [aka Senshi Naishinno] (964 - 1035)
• Sotori, Princess [aka Sotoshi] (fl. 5th cent.)
• Sulpicia [aka wife of Calenus Sulpicia] (fl. 1st cent.) ; More Information
• Sulpicia, 1st cent. B.C. [aka daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufus Sulpicia] (fl. 1st cent. BC) ; More Information
• Tarif, Laila bint ( - 815)
• Theano [aka of Croton Theano] (fl. 5th cent.)
• Wang Zhaojun [aka Wang Qiang] (fl. 1st cent. BC)
• Xue, Tao, 768-831 [aka Hsueh Tao] (ca. 768 - ca. 831)
• Yata no Waki-iratsume (fl. 4th cent.)
• Ye-śes-mtsho-rgyal, 8th cent. [aka Yeshe Tsogyal] (fl. 8th cent.)
• Yu, Xuanji, 842-872 [aka Yu Hsuan-chi] (ca. 842 - ca. 871)
• Zhuo, Wenjun, ca. 179-ca. 117 B.C. (fl. 180 BC)