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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. What kinds of literary examples are available for women authors in Hungary today? What position do Hungarian woman authors occupy in the country‘s literary canon? How should we read their works from the past and from the present? What should we base the differentiation between serious works of literature and pulp fiction by women authors? Does an andocentric view influence the reception of women authors ‘ works today? How and why? Are there more works by women authors yet to be discovered? These and other similar questions have been raised by Hungarian literary scholars over the past few years with the intent of bringing forth research about women‘s literature (Nyitott műhely[Public workshop], 2010). Nő, tükör, írás: Értelmezések a 20. század első felének női irodalmáról [Woman, Mirror, Writing: Interpretations of Early 20 t