Most of MCC
's extant writings were produced with some immediate political purpose. Even her loving letters to her husband are attentive to the state of the nation and to his career within it. Other...
SLC
is best remembered for the diaries which she kept between 1700 and 1716 and for the eleven volumes of commonplace-books in which, from 1670 till 1700, she recorded excerpts from her voracious and highly...
EC
was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players
, the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and...
Isa Craig
was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal...
Dinah Mulock Craik
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A prolific mid-Victorian professional writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and travel writing, DMC
published twenty novels whose commitment to Christian ideals of self-sacrifice and Victorian middle-class values joins with trenchant feminist critique and narrative innovation....
GC
wrote over thirty novels, works for children, and contributions for periodical publications, between the mid and the late nineteenth century. Her novels frequently use sensational scenarios, and often feature self-sufficient heroines who prove to...
Helen Craik
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During the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth, HC
wrote both poetry and novels. Her fiction included some historical and some contemporary works.
Ann Batten Cristall
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ABC
's single book of poems is a remarkable text of women's Romanticism.
B. M. Croker
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BMC
was a sharp-eyed observer of people and places. Her nearly fifty novels (published between 1881 and 1917), and her stories in periodicals and collections, are often set either in her native Ireland or in...
MC
, publishing in the early nineteenth century, is a competent poet (best when least formal) but an outstanding novelist, even on the evidence of her one identified work of fiction (among at least three published).
May Crommelin
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In the fifty years following 1874 MC
published an average of over a book a year, besides contributions, mostly fictional, to magazines. Most of her books are novels and most of those are romances. Some...
Richmal Crompton
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Richmal Crompton
's great popularity during her lifetime and her later enduring fame rest on her extraordinary outpouring of William stories for children, published between 1922 and 1970. There were thirty-eight books of William stories...
Though most prolific as a poet, CC
also published short stories, novels, music lyrics, translations, essays, and memoirs in a career that spanned the last sixty years of the nineteenth century. Her work was frequently...
Victoria Cross
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In the course of a forty-year career that began in the final decade of the nineteenth century, the pseudonymous Victoria Cross
published nearly two dozen novels, three collections of short stories, and several plays, and...
Catherine Crowe
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Between 1838 and 1859, Catherine Crowe
produced five novels, two plays, a number of short stories (including ghost stories), a translation and several children's tales.
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett.
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Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
She was a pioneer of domestic realism who combined...
Hannah Cullwick
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HC
wrote seventeen diaries between the years 1854 and 1873, plus numerous letters chronicling in detail her life as a lower servant, as well as her long cross-class courtship and eventual marriage to Arthur Munby
NC
was an early twentieth-century modernist poet, journalist, anthologist, biographer, and political activist whose life and literary career were closely intertwined. She was significant as a publisher as well as in these other roles.
LMC
is remarkable as an early seventeenth-century Scottish autobiographer and religious writer. Though she left only a few manuscripts, she writes with confidence and panache, both of her marital wrongs and her spiritual experience.