The following women writers have an individual entry in the Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, ed. Claire Buck (1992). (Note that the spelling of names below may, by following that in the Bloomsbury Guide, give a misleading impression that no Wikipedia entry exists for the individual in question).
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- Malak 'Abdel 'Aziz
- Laure d'Abrantès
- Frances Aburgavennie
- Doña Angela de Acevedo
- Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
- Kathy Acker
- Louise Ackermann
- Valentine Ackland
- Soledad Acosta de Samper
- Dora Acuña
- Juliette Adam
- Abigail Smith Adams
- Glenda Adams
- Hannah Adams
- Sarah Flower Adams
- Patsy Adam-Smith
- Karen Fleur Adcock
- Adelaide de Condet
- Adelaide of Louvain
- Anne-Marie Adiaffi
- Opal Palmer Adissa
- Etel 'Adnan
- Etta Palm d'Aedelers
- AEflaed, Abbess of Whitby
- Aesara, 4th century BC
- Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj
- Agnes (Prioress) of Castle Hedingham, 12th century
- 'Adalet Agoglu (born 1929)
- Marjorie Agosin (born 1955)
- Sor Maria de Ágreda (1602-1655)
- Agrippina the Younger (1st century AD)
- Grace Aguilar (1816-1847)
- Mirta Aguirre (born 1912)
- Delmira Agustini (1886-1914)
- Charlotte Elisabeth Sophie Louise Wilhelmine von Ahlefeld (1781-1849)
- Isle Aichinger (born 1921)
- Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1942)
- Joan Aiken (born 1924)
- Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)
- Aimuc de Castelnou (early 13th century)
- Aïsha (born 1942)
- Charlotte-Elisabeth Aïcha Aïssé (?1694-1733)
- Grace Akello
- Sonja Berta Maria Hammarberg Akeson (1926-1977)
- Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadúlina (born 1937)
- Akimoto Matsuyo (born 1911)
- Gülten Akin (born 1933)
- Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya (died ca. 802)
- Layia al-'Akhyaliyya (died ca. 700)
- Caterina Albert (1869-1966)
- Marie-Madeleine Bonafous d'Albert (18th century)
- Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840)
- Jeanne III d'Albret (1528-1572)
- Sóror Marianna Alcoforado (1640-1723)
- Gloria Alcorta (born 1915)
- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
- Josefina R. Aldecoa (born 1926)
- Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954)
- Claribel Alegría (born 1924)
- Lidiia Alekseevna Alekséeva (born 1909)
- Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960)
- Meena Alexander (born 1951)
- Elli Alexiou (1898-?)
- Estrella Alfon (1917-1982)
- Edna Alford (born 1947)
- Hauwa Ali
- 'Ulfah al-Idlibi (born 1921)
- Margarita Iosifovna Aligér (born 1915)
- Aline (12th century)
- Fatima Aliye (1862-1936)
- Zaynab Alkali
- al-Khansa (died 646)
- Hortense Allart (1801-1879)
- Charlotte Vale Allen (born 1941)
- Pamela Kay Allen (born 1934)
- Paula Gunn Allen (born 1939)
- Isabel Allende (born 1942)
- Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915-1986)
- Margery Louise Allingham (1904-1966)
- Gay Allison (born 1943)
- Dona Filipa de Almada (15th century)
- Nazik al-Mala'ika (1923-1992)
- Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862-1934)
- Ruth Almog (born 1934)
- Mary Gould Almy (1735-1808)
- Carmen de Alonso (born 1909)
- Dora Alonso (born 1910)
- Marquesa de Alorna (Leonor de Almeida Portugal de Lorena e Lencestre) (1750-?1839)
- Concha Alós (born 1922)
- Su'ad al-Sabah (born 1942)
- Ghada al-Samman (born 1942)
- Hanan al-Shaykh (born 1945)
- 'Aisha 'Esmat al-Taymuriyya (1840-1902)
- Layla al-'Uthman (born 1945)
- Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo (Duchess of Medina Sidonia) (born 1936)
- Mariá Álvarez Rios (born 1919)
- Latifa al-Zayyat (born 1923)
- Ifi Amadiume
- Narcisa Amália (1852-1914)
- Amarilis (17th century)
- Ambia
- Mary Cary Ambler (fl. 1770)
- Adibah Amin (born 1936)
- Guadalupe Amor (born 1920)
- Katherine Amory (1731-1777)
- Djamila Amrane (born 1941)
- Fadhma Ait Mansur Amrouche (1882-1967)
- Marie-Louise Amrouche (or Taos Amrouche) (1913-1976)
- Loula Anagnostaki (born 1940)
- 'Anan (died ca. 846)
- Marguerite Ancelot (1792-1875)
- Barbara Anderson (born 1926)
- Doris Anderson (born 1921)
- Jessica Anderson
- Linda Anderson (born 1949)
- Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937)
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (born 1919)
- Blanca Andreu
- Maya Angelou (born 1928)
- Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (born 1939)
- Maria Angels Anglada (born 1930)
- Anna Mitrofanovna Anichkova (1868-1935)
- Nini Roll Anker (1873-1942)
- Queen Annabella of Scotland (late 14th century)
- Anna von Munzingen
- Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884)
- Nina Pavlovna Ánnenkova-Bernár (1859/64-1933)
- Anne of Bohemia (1366-1394)
- Ol'ga Nikolaevna Anstei (1912-1985)
- Lalitambika Antarjanam (born 1909)
- Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906)
- Marie-Henriette-Anne Payan Delestang, Marquise d'Antremont (1746-1802)
- Anyte (4th century BC)
- Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- Aoki Yayohi (born 1927)
- Leila Aouchal (born 1937)
- Anjana Appachana
- Elena Ivanovna Apréleva (1846-1923)
- D'Tullia Aragona (1510-1556)
- Nezihe Araz (born 1922)
- Liwayway Arceo (born 1924)
- Mademoiselle Archambault (ca. 1724 - ?)
- Maria Archer (born 1905)
- Clementina Arderiu (born 1899)
- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
- Arete (5th-4th century BC)
- Aristodama
- Margarida Aritzeta (born 1953)
- Ariyoshi Sawako (1931-1984)
- Péronnelle d'Armentières (ca. 1340 - ?)
- Rebecca Agatha Armour (1846-1891)
- Jeannette Armstrong
- Angélique Arnaud (1799-1884)
- Mère Agnès Arnauld (1593-1671)
- Mère Jacqueline Marie Angélique Arnauld (1591-1661)
- Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859)
- Christine Arnothy (born 1930)
- Harriette Simpson Arnow (1908-1986)
- Geraldine Aron (born 1941)
- Rosa Maria Arquimbau (born 1910)
- Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva (1886-1963)
- Margaret Howe Ascham (?1535-1590)
- Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755)
- Daisy Ashford (1881-1972)
