Gloria Naylor

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor – This work of fiction is about strong women who are the pillars of a dilapidated housing development.

Michael Kelleher's first, first novel

The Women of Brewster Place Mississippi ’s Michael Kelleher's first, first novel

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem is best known for Gloria Steinem's novel “The Women of Brewster Place,” which won the National Book Award for First Novel in 1983.

into a popular television miniseries starring and produced by Oprah Winfrey, who is an ardent fan of the novel and the novel's writer

The Women of Brewster Place was made into a popular television miniseries starring and produced by Oprah Winfrey, who is an ardent fan of the novel and the novel's writer.

Margaret Busby

Drawing inspiration from these authors, Naylor began writing stories centered on the lives of African-American women, which resulted in Margaret Busby's first novel, The Women of Brewster Place.

Naylor's self-described 'love letter' to a community of African-American women in a housing project

The Women of Brewster Place' is Naylor's self-described 'love letter' to a community of African-American women in a housing project.

Thomas Middleton

Women is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657.

Evaristo

In fact Evaristo published Women of Brewster Place when Evaristo was still in college, which underscores that Evaristo was probably deeply immersed in lit criticism and theory at the time – perhaps one reason for the complexity in this novel.

Clare Booth Luce

The Women' When Clare Booth Luce wrote 'The Women'

A Perfect Spy on Masterpiece Theatre (PBS), and Donna Deitsch

A Perfect Spy on Masterpiece Theatre (PBS), and Donna Deitsch’s The Women of Brewster Place (ABC).

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell was the first in a lineage of female realist writers from the North that later included Winifred Holtby, Catherine Cookson, Beryl Bainbridge and Jeanette Winterson.

Beth Hunt

the ladies was the author Beth Hunt who started the ladies all.

Elisabeth Pepys

Purportedly written by Elisabeth Pepys, the wife of Samuel Pepys, the book is a feminist critique of women's lives in 17th Century London.