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
Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean-American novelist
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
H.D. (1886–1961), American poet, novelist, memoirist
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), German-American poet
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
Marie-Elena John (b. 1963), Antiguan novelist, Africanist
Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet
Mina Loy (1882-1966), British poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American 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
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American poet, playwright, essayist, etc.
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, short story writer
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, short-fiction writer
