Janet Margaret Todd, a British academic and author, founded the journal around the 1970s while she was teaching at Rutgers University.

[3] Issues included articles on women writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Mary Leadbeater.

Adrienne Rich, an influential American feminist poet, praised the publication after one of its issues, "Women and Film": “No one who pretends to a sound, broad, genuinely human scholarship can afford to remain ignorant of the work Women & Literature is now making available”.

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