Her legacy is nothing short of monumental. Austen pioneered a new, realistic style of novel focused on ordinary people in everyday life.
Her first novel changed everything. The God of Small Things, published in 1997, won the Booker Prize and catapulted her to international fame.
Wilde lives on as a symbol of wit and defiance. His words — “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” — still echo through time.
She worked as a nurse during the First World War. This experience gave her a practical knowledge of poisons and pharmaceuticals, which would become a
Virginia Woolf, in her seminal text, A Room of One's Own talked about equality, a literary career and financial freedom, thoughts which still influence feminist
