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Queen Elizabeth I

Arts and Riches

Charlotte Elliott

At the behest of her friend Harriet Kiernan , CE took over as editor of—and frequent contributor to—the Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book in 1824. She continued this work until 1859.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing Life

William Empson

WE was an enthusiast for Basic English (a simplified form of the language which he favoured not only for exchanges among scientists and others from different language groups, but also as an introduction to the study of fully matured, complex, literary English). He also involved himself, with Humphrey Jennings , Kathleen Raine , Naomi Mitchison , and others, in Mass-Observation .

Anne Enright

As an undergraduate at TCD, AE had already worked in theatre, with companies like the Abbey and Rough Magic Theatre . After her MA degree she found work as a television producer with RTÉ , the Irish national broadcaster. For four of her six years there she produced and directed the popular series Nighthawks.
Moloney, Caitriona. “Anne Enright (11 October 1962-)”. Twenty-first-Century British and Irish Novelists, Gale, 2003.
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Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “Introduction”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp. 1-12.
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She gave up her very good job, with a car and a lot of freedom to become a full-time writer embarking on her first novel.
Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “An Interview with Anne Enright, August 2009”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, 2011, pp. 13-32.
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Ephelia

She was by all accounts an outstanding courtier, admired not only for her beauty but also for her style and wit (Freda Hast in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography quotes the word for her of a French visitor: rejouissante).
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Back in England after the Restoration, the duchess was employed as a lady of the bedchamber by the queen dowager, Henrietta Maria . For the whole of her adult life she was deeply involved in Court politics, working for this or that dynastic marriage or personal alliance, disgrace, or rehabilitation. She seems to have been in effect an intelligence agent and courier. Maureen E. Mulvihill , the premier Ephelia scholar, calls her a clandestine character,
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “The Eureka! Piece in the Ephelia Puzzle: Book Ornaments in Attribution Research and a New Location for Rahir Fleuron 203 (Elzevier, 1896)”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1 June 1999– 2025, pp. 23-34.
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a quiet player in court machinations, as well as an amusing cross-dresser and gentlewoman duellist.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “’Butterfly’ of the Restoration Court: A Preview of Lady Mary Villiers, the New ’Ephelia’ Candidate”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1996, pp. 25-39.
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Margiad Evans

Teaching and Domestic

Zoë Fairbairns

After early success as a novelist, it began to seem impossible for ZF to combine her three passions—feminism, left-wing politics . . . and novel-writing. She settled for work in journalism instead.
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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She has also worked as a teacher and an editor, and served as poetry editor of Spare Rib from 1978 to 1982.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
In this capacity, she wrote, she returned 1,500 submitted manuscripts, which she says she did not reject but rather decided not to shortlist,
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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and hoped they would be published somewhere else.
Fairbairns, Zoë et al., editors. More Tales I Tell My Mother. Journeyman, 1987.
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She taught in adult education classes, in schools, and in prisons. Places where she has taught creative writing include London (at the City Lit and Morley College ), Surrey and Kent (for the borough of Bromley), County Durham (at the then Sunderland Polytechnic ), and Cuba (at the University of Havana ). She has also taught at Deakin University at Geelong in Australia, and the University of Minnesota in the USA.
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Small Press Poetry”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, 1 June–30 Nov. 2001, pp. 46-7.
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British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Fairbairns, Zoë. Closing. Methuen, 1987.
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Fairbairns, Zoë. “Poetry and Drama”. Zoë Fairbairns.

Anna Maria Falconbridge

Teaching an African Prince

Violet Fane

Mary Montgomerie Lamb (later known as VF ) made her professional entry into the world of literature under her birth name as the creator of etchings to illustrate a leaflet reprint at Worthing of Tennyson 's Mariana.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Catherine Fanshawe

Like her sisters, CF was a skilled painter and artist. She produced attractive character studies of people of the lower classes who were willing to sit for her, as well as socio-political caricature and a large romantic drawing titled The Genius of the Storm.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
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Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson

She also began collecting a remarkable library of more than four hundred books, lavishly bound and bearing her bookplate. These are now mostly at the Library Company of Philadelphia , though some are scattered.

Fanny Fern

The lack of support from her family forced her to seek an income elsewhere, and instead of returning to the badly-paid occupation of needlework, she began writing columns (for which she was paid a pittance) for Boston papers the True Flag and The Olive Branch.
Walker, Nancy A. Fanny Fern. Twayne, 1993.
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Susan Ferrier

Until 1829, her social circle would have seen SF as primarily devoted to the care of her widowed father.

Henry Fielding

Having had his first play produced in February 1728 and gone on to achieve some success in the difficult metier of London playwright, HF became manager of the Little Theatre in the Haymarketbecause that was the only way he could get his work performed.
Hume, Robert D. Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737. Clarendon, 1988.
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This phase of his career (during which he employed Eliza Haywood and Charlotte Charke as performers) was brought to an abrupt end by the Licensing Act of 21 June 1737.

Sarah Fielding

SF declined an invitation to work as a governess to the young daughter of Anne Dewes (sister of Mary Delany ).
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
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Celia Fiennes

CF appears to have loved travelling for its own sake (for the movement, variety, and sense of freedom). She was also deeply interested in the world, particularly in human industry (in both senses of the word) and artefacts, in mining, in drainage projects and in manufacturing processes. She had a strong sense of the public good, and delighted in improvements and modern conveniences.
Fiennes, Celia. “Editorial Note and Introduction”. The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes, edited by Christopher Morris, Macdonald; Webb and Bower, 1982, pp. 8-31.
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Anne Finch

Anne Kingsmill (later AF ) became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena , wife of the future James II .
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
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Edward FitzGerald

EFG published his first poem anonymously in the Athenæum and another periodical in 1831. He wrote strictly as an amateur, appearing in print sparingly (though in a wide range of genres) and always anonymously, feeling that his critical standards were higher than the general level of his own achievement. I think unless a man can do better, he had best not do at all He was about fifty when he published the poem that in course of time was to make him famous, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Gustave Flaubert

One of the great practioners of literary realism, he shifted the European novel significantly towards naturalism. His influence ranged far, from literary friends such as Émile Zola to writers in English, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon (who published an adaptation of his Madame Bovary), and the US francophile Gertrude Stein .
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.

W. B. Yeats

In the first year of the Irish Free State (set up by the British parliament in March 1922), WBY became a member of the Irish Senate, a post he held until 1928.10

Charlotte Forman

She eked out a living by writing for periodicals: she said she earned less with her pen than she would if she had been a greengrocer, or a servant skilled with a mop. She considered seeking a job as a humble companion, but dropped this idea as soon as there was any prospect of writing work, no matter how unsatisfactory.
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
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, No. 1, Oct. 1982, pp. 28-45.
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Christina Fraser-Tytler

The marriage seems to have fostered CFT 's vocation as a writer. Her husband's connection with R. H. Hutton , editor of The Spectator, meant there was a steady stream of books for reviewing. As she records it: In our leisure hours at Wimpole we read and wrote a great deal, as well as giving each other some coveted book on birthdays and anniversaries.
Fraser-Tytler, Christina. A Shepherd of the Sheep. Longmans, Green, 1916.
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Sir James George Frazer

Frazer was a classicist and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (his own college) when his interest in anthropology and the study of ancient religions was first awakened.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Georgiana Fullerton

Charitable and Religious Works