| NORTHANGERABBEY | Jane Austen novel published soon after her death; her brother paid £10 for the rights |
| PERSUASION | Last novel fully completed by Jane Austen, published after her death (10) |
| VIRGINIAWOOLF | Her final novel, "Between the Acts," was published shortly after her death in 1941 |
| EMMA | Last Jane Austen novel published while she was alive |
| LADYSUSAN | Epistolary Jane Austen novel published posthumously in 1871 (4,5) |
| MANSFIELDPARK | Jane Austen novel published in 1814 (9,4) |
| ABBEY | Northanger ---, Jane Austen novel published posthumously (5) |
| CAREER | Author Miles Franklin banned her semi-autobiographical novel, My Brilliant ..., from being re-issued for ten years after her death in 1954 |
| ORPHEUS | In Greek myths, a poet and lyre player who married Eurydice and sought her in Hades after her death (7) |
| EMILYDICKINSON | Amherst poet who requested that her correspondence be burned after her death: 2 wds. |
| WHITNEYHOUSTON | Her 1992 song I Will Always Love You hit the top 10 in 2012 after her death: 2 wds. |
| ANDROMEDA | Wife of Perseus who became a constellation after her death (9) |
| ARACHNE | In classical myth, ____ became a spider after her death |
| EDISON | After her death, Margaret Knight was called a "woman" version of him |
| HILDEGARDOFBINGEN | German Benedictine abbess, whose musical compositions only became well-known 800 years after her death |
| DIANE | American photographer who was the first to be included in the Venice Biennale, a year after her death (5,5) |
| ARBUS | American photographer who was the first to be included in the Venice Biennale, a year after her death (5,5) |
| PEARL | Album by Janis Joplin released in February 1971, four months after her death |
| SARATOGA | Jean Harlow's last and highest-grossing film, which was released in 1937 just months after her death (8) |
| MARILYN | ____ Monroe, U.S. actress who featured in a series of silkscreen paintings by Andy Warhol after her death (7) |
