woman of letters
Americannoun
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a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.
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a woman of great learning; scholar.
Example Sentences
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A demimondaine with a shocking reputation, by the time of her death, in 1954, Colette was an institution, the first French woman of letters ever honored with a state funeral.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
His parents, Sir William Wilde, a distinguished eye surgeon, and his mother, a noted woman of letters nicknamed Speranza, hosted Dublin’s leading artistic salon.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021
But as a woman of letters, she is fascinated by Willy’s bustling literary fiefdom and soon finds her place in it, first as a proofer and then as one of his ghostwriters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2018
A proto-feminist woman of letters, impresario and poet in her own right, Morewood strikes us in Shelden’s account as a person of imagination and courage straining against the socially imposed constrictions of her time.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2016
She could get up a shirt to perfection, and made irreproachable chowder, but she was not a woman of letters.
From The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb
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