List of early-modern British women novelists

This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800.

"Beauty in search of knowledge" — "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library , where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century. Mezzotint, printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett, London, 1782.)