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Writers with Entries
Initial Release The 1,077 writers listed below—as British women, men and other women—had their own entries in the initial release of Orlando in June 2006. More entries are added twice yearly and are listed under their dates of release.
British Women Writers with Entries
Maria Abdy
Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
Valentine Ackland
Sarah Flower Adams
Fleur Adcock
Grace Aguilar
Joan Aiken
Lucy Aikin
Cecil Frances Alexander
Mrs Alexander
Hannah Allen
Margery Allingham
Laurence Alma-Tadema
Jane Anger
Ariadne
Pat Arrowsmith
Elizabeth Ashbridge
Anne Askew
Mary Astell
Anna Atkins
Penelope Aubin
Anne Audland
Jane Austen
Sarah Austin
Elizabeth Avery
Anne Bacon
Mary Bailey
Joanna Baillie
Beryl Bainbridge
Elizabeth Baker
Ella Baker
Louisa Baldwin
Clara Balfour
Isabella Banks
Anne Bannerman
Helen Bannerman
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Mary Barber
Jane Barker
Pat Barker
Lady Anne Barnard
Maria Barrell
Emilie Barrington
Mary Basset
Henrietta Battier
Nina Bawden
Amelia Beauclerc
Agnes Beaumont
Lydia Becker
Sybille Bedford
Patricia Beer
Isabella Beeton
Aphra Behn
Gertrude Bell
Frances Bellerby
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
Anna Maria Bennett
Stella Benson
Theodora Benson
Inez Bensusan
Elizabeth Bentley
Phyllis Bentley
Annie Besant
Mary Matilda Betham
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Elizabeth Beverley
Hester Biddle
Clementina Black
Helen Blackburn
E. Owens Blackburne
Caroline Blackwood
Isa Blagden
Barbara Blaugdone
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Mathilde Blind
Enid Blyton
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Elizabeth Bonhote
Frances Boothby
Lucy Boston
Phyllis Bottome
Jessie Boucherett
Dorothy Boulger
Elizabeth Bowen
Marjorie Bowen
Lilian Bowes Lyon
Caroline Bowles
Elizabeth Boyd
Mary Boyle
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Anne Bradstreet
Hannah Brand
Anna Brassey
Anna Eliza Bray
Angela Brazil
Jane Brereton
Ann Bridge
Amelia Bristow
Vera Brittain
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brooke
Frances Brooke
Christine Brooke-Rose
Anita Brookner
Brigid Brophy
Rhoda Broughton
Mary Ann Browne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mary Brunton
Margaret Bryan
Mary Bryan
Bryher
Cicely Bulstrode
Anne Burke
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Burney
Sarah Harriet Burney
Catharine Burton
Lady Charlotte Bury
Dorothy Bussy
Josephine Butler
Lady Eleanor Butler
Sarah Butler
A. S. Byatt
Augusta Ada Byron
Catherine Byron
Medora Gordon Byron
Mildred Cable
Kathleen Caffyn
Mona Caird
Elizabeth Cairns
Maria Callcott
Dorothea Primrose Campbell
Ann Candler
Joanna Cannan
May Cannan
Mary Carey
Mary Carleton
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Dora Carrington
Catherine Carswell
Angela Carter
Elizabeth Carter
Barbara Cartland
Lucy Cary
Mary Cary
Margaret Catchpole
Jane Cave
Margaret Cavendish
Elizabeth Cellier
Susanna Centlivre
Marianne Chambers
Mary Chandler
Charlotte Chanter
Hester Mulso Chapone
Sarah Chapone
Charlotte Charke
Elizabeth Charles
Mary Charlton
Georgiana Chatterton
Katherine Chidley
Caroline Chisholm
Agatha Christie
Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Caryl Churchill
Gillian Clarke
Mary Cowden Clarke
Olivia Clarke
Agnes Mary Clerke
Ellen Mary Clerke
Lady Anne Clifford
Caroline Clive
Frances Power Cobbe
Elizabeth Cobbold
Frances Colenso
Christabel Coleridge
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Sara Coleridge
Jane Collier
Mary Collier
Mary Maria Colling
An Collins
Mary Collyer
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Anne Conway
Ann Cook
Eliza Cook
Catherine Cookson
Elizabeth Cooper, d. 1761
Lettice Cooper
Wendy Cope
Marie Corelli
Frances Cornford
Harriet Corp
Louisa Stuart Costello
Rosalind Coward
Hannah Cowley
Edith Craig
Isa Craig
Dinah Mulock Craik
Georgiana Craik
Ann Batten Cristall
Margaret Croker
Richmal Crompton
Camilla Crosland
Catherine Crowe
Hannah Cullwick
Nancy Cunard
Lady Margaret Cunningham
Alicia D'Anvers
Charlotte Dacre
Anne Damer
Clemence Dane
Mary Whateley Darwall
Elizabeth Daryush
Emily Davies
Sarah Davy
Mary Davys
Elizabeth De la Pasture
E. M. Delafield
Shelagh Delaney
Mary Delany
Ethel M. Dell
Charlotte Dempster
Charlotte Despard
Mary Deverell
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Monica Dickens
E. A. Dillwyn
Florence Dixie
Ella Hepworth Dixon
Sarah Dixon
Susannah Dobson
Anne Docwra
George Douglas
Lady Eleanor Douglas
Harriet Downing
Anne Dowriche
Margaret Drabble
Judith Drake
Dorothea Du Bois
Daphne Du Maurier
Susan Du Verger
Lucie Duff Gordon
Carol Ann Duffy
Maureen Duffy
Helen Dunmore
Nell Dunn
Toru Dutt
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Emily Eden
Maria Edgeworth
May Edginton
Amelia B. Edwards
George Eliot
Queen Elizabeth I
Grace Elliott
Sarah Stickney Ellis
Elizabeth Elstob
Buchi Emecheta
Ephelia
Eugenia
Katharine Evans
Juliana Horatia Ewing
Mary Fage
Emily Faithfull
Anna Maria Falconbridge
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Violet Fane
Ann, Lady Fanshawe
Catherine Fanshawe
U. A. Fanthorpe
Eleanor Farjeon
Florence Farr
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Eliza Fay
Elaine Feinstein
Margaret Fell
Eliza Fenwick
Mary Ferrar
Susan Ferrier
Fidelia
Michael Field
Sarah Fielding
Celia Fiennes
Eva Figes
Anne Finch
Penelope Fitzgerald
Eliza Fletcher
Charlotte Forman
Margaret Forster
Jessie Fothergill
Martha Fowke
Julia Frankau
Pamela Frankau
Elizabeth Freke
Mary Frere
Sarah Fyge
Sarah Gardner
Constance Garnett
Elizabeth Gaskell
Margaret Gatty
Maggie Gee
Pam Gems
Dorothea Gerard
Emily Gerard
Karen Gershon
Phebe Gibbes
Stella Gibbons
Agnes Giberne
Ann Taylor Gilbert
Hélène Gingold
Hannah Glasse
Evelyn Glover
Elinor Glyn
Rumer Godden
Ann Gomersall
Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Catherine Gore
Eva Gore-Booth
Elizabeth Goudge
Sarah Grand
Elizabeth Grant
Clotilde Graves
Christian Gray
Sarah Green
Dora Greenwell
Germaine Greer
Augusta Gregory
Maria Grey
Constantia Grierson
Elizabeth Griffith
Elizabeth Gunning
Susannah Gunning
H. D.
Martha Hale
Anne Halkett
Anna Maria Hall
Radclyffe Hall
Elizabeth Ham
Cicely Hamilton
Eliza Mary Hamilton
Elizabeth Hamilton
Janet Hamilton
Irene Handl
Iza Duffus Hardy
Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
Margaret Harkness
Brilliana, Lady Harley
Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Harvey
Ann Hatton
Frances Ridley Havergal
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
Mary Hays
Matilda Hays
Eliza Haywood
Felicia Hemans
Mary Herberts
Georgette Heyer
Elizabeth Heyrick
Emily Hickey
Patricia Highsmith
Isabel Hill
Selima Hill
Susan Hill
Elizabeth Hincks
Margaret Hoby
Frances Sarah Hoey
Barbara Hofland
Catherine Holland
Constance Holme
Winifred Holtby
Elizabeth Hooton
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
Anna Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt
Catherine Hubback
E. M. Hull
Mary Catherine Hume
Sophia Hume
Violet Hunt
Rachel Hunter
Lucy Hutchinson
Catherine Hutton
Lucy Hutton
Elspeth Huxley
Elizabeth Inchbald
Jean Ingelow
Kathleen E. Innes
Anne Irwin
Elinor James
P. D. James
Anna Brownell Jameson
Storm Jameson
Kathleen Jamie
Ann Jebb
Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
Elizabeth Jennings
F. Tennyson Jesse
Mary Anne Jevons, the elder
Geraldine Jewsbury
Maria Jane Jewsbury
Meiling Jin
Pamela Hansford Johnson
Ellen Johnston
Christian Isobel Johnstone
E. B. C. Jones
Mary Jones
Elizabeth Joscelin
Julian of Norwich
Sarah Kane
Sylvia Kantaris
Anna Kavan
Julia Kavanagh
Jackie Kay
Sheila Kaye-Smith
Molly Keane
Annie Keary
Isabella Kelly
Adelaide Kemble
Fanny Kemble
Maria Theresa Kemble
Margery Kempe
Margaret Kennedy
Hannah Kilham
Anne Killigrew
Jemima Kindersley
Harriet Hamilton King
Sophia King
Mary Kingsley
Flora Klickmann
Lucy Knox
Fanny Aikin Kortright
L. E. L.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Aemilia Lanyer
Bryony Lavery
Mary Lavin
Margery Lawrence
Jane Lead
Mary Leadbeater
Caroline Leakey
Mary Leapor
Q. D. Leavis
Harriet Lee
Sophia Lee
Vernon Lee
Rosamond Lehmann
Dorothy Leigh
Charlotte Lennox
Anna Leonowens
Doris Lessing
Elizabeth B. Lester
Ada Leverson
Amy Levy
Deborah Levy
Sarah Lewis
Isabella Lickbarrow
Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln
Mary Linskill
Eliza Lynn Linton
Anne Lister
Janet Little
Penelope Lively
Liz Lochhead
Norah Lofts
Maria Theresa Longworth
Mina Loy
Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan
Lady Jane Lumley
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Catharine Macaulay
Rose Macaulay
Shena Mackay
Anna Maria Mackenzie
Katharine S. Macquoid
Sara Maitland
Elizabeth Major
Bathsua Makin
Lucas Malet
Judith Man
Delarivier Manley
Ethel Mannin
Anne Manning
Olivia Manning
Katherine Mansfield
Hilary Mantel
Jane Marcet
Marie de France
Jessie White Mario
Jean Marishall
Constance, Countess Markievicz
Florence Marryat
Dora Marsden
Anne Marsh
Emma Marshall
M. Marsin
Mary Martin
Mrs Martin
Harriet Martineau
Damaris Masham
Mary Masters
Medbh McGuckian
L. T. Meade
Mary Meeke
Louisa Anne Meredith
Eliza Meteyard
Charlotte Mew
Alice Meynell
Viola Meynell
Jean Middlemass
Grace, Lady Mildmay
Susan Miles
Betty Miller
Christian Milne
Margaret Minifie
Hope Mirrlees
Naomi Mitchison
Mary Russell Mitford
Nancy Mitford
Deborah Moggach
Mary Louisa Molesworth
Mary Mollineux
Elizabeth Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Seymour Montague
Charlotte Montefiore
Susanna Moodie
Elinor Mordaunt
Hannah More
Mary More
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Celia Moss
Marion Moss
Martha Moulsworth
Anne Mozley
Harriett Mozley
Georgina Munro
Iris Murdoch
Eunice Guthrie Murray
Constance Naden
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne
Elma Napier
E. Nesbit
Grace Nichols
Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth Nihell
Charlotte Nooth
Caroline Norton
Frances, Lady Norton
Frances Notley
Kathleen Nott
Charlotte Grace O'Brien
Kate O'Brien
Frances O'Neill
Ann Oakley
Eliza Ogilvy
Anne Ogle
Margaret Oliphant
Carola Oman
Amelia Opie
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Dorothy Osborne
Ouida
Jane Owen
Isabel Pagan
Alicia Tyndal Palmer
Christabel Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst
Julia Pardoe
Elizabeth Mary Parker
Emma Parker
Mary Ann Parker
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Katherine Parr
Susanna Parr
Mrs F. C. Patrick
Frances Mary Peard
Winifred Peck
Mary Peisley
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Mary Penington
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Katherine Philips
Catherine Phillips
Teresia Constantia Phillips
Laetitia Pilkington
Hester Lynch Piozzi
Ruth Pitter
Mary Pix
Sylvia Plath
Annabella Plumptre
Anne Plumptre
C. E. Plumptre
Elizabeth Polwhele
Eleanor Anne Porden
Anna Maria Porter
Jane Porter
Beatrix Potter
Diana Primrose
Adelaide Procter
Sheenagh Pugh
Barbara Pym
Ann Quin
Ann Radcliffe
Mary Ann Radcliffe
Kathleen Raine
Hannah Mary Rathbone
Clara Reeve
Amber Reeves
Marion Reid
Mary Renault
Ruth Rendell
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Jean Rhys
Dorothy Richardson
Elizabeth Richardson
Charlotte Riddell
Anne Ridler
Elizabeth Rigby
Joan Riley
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Jane Robe
Emma Roberts
Margaret Roberts
E. Arnot Robertson
Elizabeth Robins
A. Mary F. Robinson
Emma Robinson
F. Mabel Robinson
Mary Robinson
Regina Maria Roche
Amanda McKittrick Ros
Catharine Colace Ross
Martin Ross
Mrs Ross
Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Susanna Haswell Rowson
Naomi Royde-Smith
Maude Royden
Bernice Rubens
Berta Ruck
Carol Rumens
Dora Russell
Jessie Russell
Lady Rachel Russell
Lady Margaret Sackville
Vita Sackville-West
Margaret Sandbach
Mary Savage
Ethel Savi
Dorothy L. Sayers
Olive Schreiner
Caroline Scott
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Mary Scott
Sarah Scott
E. J. Scovell
Mary Seacole
Anna Seward
Anna Sewell
Elizabeth Sewell
Mary Sewell
Kamila Shamsie
Evelyn Sharp
Jane Sharp
Flora Shaw
Hester Shaw
Mary Shelley
Frances Sheridan
Mary Martha Sherwood
Emily Shirreff
Arabella Shore
Louisa Catherine Shore
Margaret Emily Shore
Mrs Showes
Elizabeth Siddal
Ethel Sidgwick
Dora Sigerson
Edith J. Simcox
Catherine Sinclair
May Sinclair
Edith Sitwell
Felicia Skene
Ann Masterman Skinn
Eleanor Sleath
Menella Bute Smedley
Ali Smith
Charlotte Smith
Dodie Smith
Stevie Smith
Ethel Smyth
Edith Somerville
Mary Somerville
Joanna Southcott
Githa Sowerby
Muriel Spark
Rachel Speght
Emily Spender
Jane Squire
Christopher St John
Freya Stark
Mariana Starke
Flora Annie Steel
Anne Steele
G. B. Stern
Anne Stevenson
Elizabeth Stirredge
Mary Stockdale
Elizabeth Stone
Sarah Stone
Charlotte Stopes
Marie Stopes
Lesley Storm
Mary Stott
Julia Strachey
Ray Strachey
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Noel Streatfeild
Hesba Stretton
Julia Stretton
Agnes Strickland
Elizabeth Strickland
Jan Struther
Elizabeth Strutt
Lady Arbella Stuart
Lady Louisa Stuart
Maud Sulter
Annie S. Swan
Anna Swanwick
Henrietta Sykes
Catherine Talbot
Eleanor Tatlock
Jemima Tautphoeus
Ann Martin Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Harriet Taylor
Helen Taylor
Jane Taylor
Mary Taylor
Elizabeth Teft
Edith Templeton
Emma Tennant
Josephine Tey
Gertrude Thimelby
Winefrid Thimelby
Angela Thirkell
Elizabeth Thomas
Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1771
Flora Thompson
Mary Tighe
Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
Annie Tinsley
Elizabeth Tipper
Elizabeth Tollet
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Catharine Parr Traill
Anna Trapnel
P. L. Travers
Rebecca Travers
Iris Tree
Viola Tree
Violet Trefusis
Melesina Trench
Sarah Trimmer
Frances Trollope
Frances Eleanor Trollope
Catharine Trotter
Una Troubridge
Charlotte Maria Tucker
Susan Tweedsmuir
Margaret Tyler
Harriet Tytler
Alison Uttley
Margaret Veley
Queen Victoria
Joan Vokins
Elizabeth von Arnim
Helen Waddell
Priscilla Wakefield
Lady Mary Walker
Ann Wall
Mary Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Anna Letitia Waring
Marina Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Jane Warton
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
Rosamund Marriott Watson
Susanna Watts
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Beatrice Webb
Mary Webb
Augusta Webster
Julia Wedgwood
Ellen Weeton
Fay Weldon
Dorothy Wellesley
Helena Wells
Agnes Wenman
Patricia Wentworth
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Mary Wesley
Susanna Wesley
Jane West
Rebecca West
Anne Wharton
Anne Wheathill
Agnes Wheeler
Anna Wheeler
Dorothy Whipple
Antonia White
Dorothy White
Elizabeth White
Anne Whitehead
Isabella Whitney
Joan Whitrow
Anna Wickham
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Helen Maria Williams
Sarah Williams
Amabel Williams-Ellis
Harriette Wilson
Jeanette Winterson
Jane Wiseman
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
Hannah Wolley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Ellen Wood
Emma Caroline Wood
Sophia Woodfall
A. Woodfin
Virginia Woolf
Emma Jane Worboise
Dorothy Wordsworth
Frances Wright
Mehetabel Wright
Lady Mary Wroth
Ann Yearsley
Charlotte Yonge
E. H. Young
Other Women Writers
Male Writers
Summary of Content (initial release)
1,077 entries (844 British women writers, 164 male writers, 113 other women writers—listed twice if their nationality shifted); 12,739 free-standing chronology entries; 19,555 bibliographical listings; 1,893,280 tags; 5,950,855 words (exclusive of tags).
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