| STOWE | "The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war," as Lincoln supposedly said |
| DOLLS | Pulp writer Jackie Susann wrote the book that 67's Valley of the _____ was based on. |
| COSTA | - - - Rica, central American country that started this year in 100th position in the men's world rankings (5) |
| ABBESS | Babes played with small woman who runs a retreat (6) |
| DIES | "John ___ at the End" (book that started as a webseries) |
| THEFEMININEMYSTIQUE | 1963 book that started a movement |
| EBB | Initials of the woman who wrote, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" |
| AUSTERE | Grim woman who wrote endlessly about monarch |
| ALCOTT | Woman who wrote about four sisters inhabiting rural cottage (6) |
| ORR | "Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved" poet Gregory |
| HARPERLEE | Author of the book that Times readers voted the best of the last hundred and twenty-five years |
| IMMORAL | "The books that the world calls _ are books that show the world its own shame": Oscar Wide (7) |
| AIRRAID | Tube stations were used during the war as shelters in the event of this sort of attack (3, 4) |
| PLATO | Philosopher who supposedly said, "Writing is the geometry of the soul" |
| PTBARNUM | Showman who supposedly said "There's no such thing as bad publicity" |
| NAMEOF | What's the ___ the book that you're reading? (title): 2 wds. |
| SWASH | The book that the ghostly captain writes for Mrs. Muir, "Blood and ___" |
| ROSE | Flower such as the apple-scented sweetbrier or any other wild variety whose berry-like hips were collected during the Second World War as a source of vitamin C for children (4) |
| OVERHEAR | Catch report of GIs in Britain during the war, as the saying goes (8) |
| LUDENDORFF | Erich ___, German general who served in the First World War as chief of staff to Field Marshal Hindenburg (10) |
