Statistics for Influential Women Writers

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Work(s)	Author	% Correct
Jane Eyre, Villette	Charlotte Brontë	94%
Frankenstein, The Last Man	Mary Shelley	93%
Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie	88%
Northanger Abbey, Persuasion	Jane Austen	83%
Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	76%
Ariel, The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	69%
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	59%
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck	Beatrix Potter	54%
The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	54%
The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch	George Eliot	49%
only fragments of her lyric poetry survive (mostly passionate homages to the charms of attractive young women)	Sappho	44%
North and South, Wives and Daughters	Elizabeth Gaskell	31%
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	25%
Gaudy Night, The Nine Tailors	Dorothy L. Sayers	11%
The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu	11%
The Pillow Book	Sei Shōnagon	9%
Scivias, Liber Vitae Meritorum	Hildegard of Bingen	7%
Lanval, Bisclavret, Laüstic	Marie de France	7%
The Interior Castle, The Way of Perfection	Saint Teresa of Ávila	7%
The Dream; Loa to Divine Narcissus; poetry in Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	6%
My Brilliant Career, All That Swagger	Miles Franklin	4%
The Restlessness of the Rose, World of Seven Wells	Alfonsina Storni	2%
Gods and Fighting Men (translation), A Book of Saints and Wonders	Lady Gregory	2%

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