Writers with Entries

• Anne Locke, c. 1533 - maybe c. 1593, probable author of earliest sonnet sequence in English
• Elizabeth Moody, perhaps early 1740s - 1814, poet and early periodical reviewer
• Henrietta Maria Bowdler, 1750 - 1830, the true inventor of bowdlerising Shakespeare
• Anne Grant, 1755 - 1838, Scottish woman of letters, huge networker, author of book on colonial New York province
• Selina Bunbury, 1802 - 82, whose "writings display a loving and respectful preoccupation with female characters and themes"
• Fanny Fern, 1811 - 72, one of the most popular US writers of the nineteenth century
• Sarah Tytler, 1827 - 1914, prolific Scottish author of domestic and often historical novels
• Isabella Bird, 1831 - 1904, prominent late-Victorian travel writer
• Kate Chopin, 1850 - 1904, US feminist writer particularly well-known for The Awakening
• John Strange Winter, 1856 - 1911, popular for her military novels, unusual for a woman
• Katharine Tynan, 1859 - 1931, leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival
• George Paston, 1860 - 1936, feminist novelist and playwright, biographer, and writer on women's literary history
• Victoria Cross, 1868 - 1952, whose writing rebels against the sexual and other conventions of her own day, yet has remained unfashionable in later generations
• Eleanor Rathbone, 1872 - 1946, conservative feminist, crucial proponent of family allowances, described as one of the leading politicians of the early twentieth century
• Enid Bagnold, 1889 - 1981, novelist and playwright
• Willa Muir, 1890 - 1970, Scottish writer and translator (most famously of Kafka), overshadowed by her poet husband
• Mary Butts, 1890 - 1937, modernist novelist, poet, and autobiographer
• Muriel Box, 1905 - 91, playwright, film-writer, first British woman film director, and author of a feminist post-nuclear science fiction
• Una Marson, 1905 - 65, Jamaican woman of letters and publicist in Britain of Caribbean culture, early proponent of global feminism and black female identity
• Jean Plaidy, 1906 - 93, immensely popular author of over 200 novels under seven pseudonyms, best-known for historical romance
• Mollie Panter-Downes, 1906 - 97, author of a novel which has been called one of the best in the twentieth century
• Marghanita Laski, 1915 - 88, woman of letters and public intellectual
• Penelope Mortimer, 1918 - 99, novelist and writer in many genres
• Elizabeth Jane Howard, born 1923, best-known as a novelist and autobiographer
• Ann Jellicoe, born 1927, innovative playwright and pioneer of huge-cast community theatre
• Nawal El Saadawi, born 1931, Egyptian feminist writer and voice for Islamic women
• Antonia Fraser, born 1932, historical biographer (particularly of women) and detective-story writer
• Rose Tremain, born 1943, novelist
• Anne Devlin, born 1951, Belfast-born playwright

• Margaret Tyler, first woman in England to publish a romance and the first English translator direct from Spanish romance, in the later sixteenth century
• Jane Owen, Roman Catholic religious writer of the seventeenth century
• Lady Margaret Cunningham, remarkable early seventeenth-century Scottish autobiographer and religious writer
• Mary Fage, earlier seventeenth-century author of anagrams and acrostics on the names of the British establishment
• Judith Man, who in 1640 translated, abridged, and published her version of a popular Latin heroic romance
• Elizabeth Avery, religious polemicist and autobiographer of the mid-seventeenth century
• Susanna Parr, mid-seventeenth-century religious apologist and polemicist
• Frances Boothby, the sole woman to have a play produced in a public theatre before Aphra Behn
• Elizabeth Tipper, late-seventeenth-century poet and journalist
• Sarah Davy, later-seventeenth-century Independent or Baptist autobiographer
• Barbara Blaugdone, later seventeenth-century Quaker minister and autobiographer
• Sarah Butler, Irish writer who produced, in the early eighteenth century, tales from legendary national history under the guise of fiction
• Ann Cook, mid-eighteenth-century author of an imaginative cookery-book which includes poetry, and story-telling
• Marianne Chambers, late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelist and dramatist
• Mrs. F. C. Patrick, Irish novelist of the 1790s
• Anne Burke, successful novelist who began publishing at the end of the eighteenth century
• Frances O'Neill, Irish poet of the later eighteenth and very early nineteenth century
• Charlotte Nooth, author during the early nineteenth century of poetry, a remarkable novel, and a translation of a text against racial prejudice

214 new free-standing chronology entries on such contextual matters as:

• the Iliad
• the Olympic Games
• the British national postal service
• bank notes
• the appointment of Maria Gaetana Agnesi as professor of mathematics in 1750
• street lighting
• Madame Tussaud's
• Reuter's news service
• the coinage of the word "allergy"
• Grace Annie Lockhart's attainment of the first university degree by a woman in the British Empire
• Annie Jump Cannon's receipt of the first honorary doctorate by a woman from Oxford University
• the British Socialist Party
• the Greenham Common women's peace camp
• the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Shirin Ebadi of Iran

138 existing author entries were also updated or enhanced. 143 existing free-standing chronology entries were also updated or enhanced

29 entries (26 British women writers, 3 other women writers—listed twice if their nationality shifted); 18 life screens; 198 free-standing chronology entries; 821 bibliographical listings; 83,282 tags; 289,619 words (exclusive of tags).

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