This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.

1 - The Top Ten - 20th Century Women

2 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

3 - Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

4 - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

5 - A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Gaspell

6 - Here We Are by Dorothy Parker

7 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

8 - The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railroad by Baroness Orczy

9 - Rooms by Gertrude Stein

10 - White Bread by Zona Gale

11 - The Stones of the Village by Alice Dunbar Nelson