NRS
'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies...
Maude Royden
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Maude Royden
, famous as an early twentieth-century campaigner for women's status in the ministry of the Church of England
, was also a preacher, suffragist, feminist, and anti-war activist. She published at least fifty...
BR
was an immensely, steadily prolific later twentieth-century novelist (with a couple of dozen titles, the last published in 2003). She also wrote for the stage, film, and television. A vivid memoir appeared posthumously. She...
Primarily a romantic novelist, BR
produced nearly eighty novels over the course of her writing career as well as large numbers of short stories. Her fiction focuses on young girls and love. She also produced...
CR
is a leading poet of the later twentieth century and beyond. As well as a dozen poetry volumes she has published a novel, short stories, plays, translations, and reviews of literature and music. She...
John Ruskin
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Dora Russell
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DR
's publications, which span a large stretch of the twentieth century, are closely linked to her feminist, pacifist, and other political activisms. She wrote social criticism (books and essays), poetry, plays, and remarkable memoirs.
JR
was a Scottish working-class poet who published in periodicals and in a single volume, 1877. Her work evinces a strong sense of class identity and of incisive protest against the violence and hardship suffered...
Lady Rachel Russell
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The reputation of LRR
's letters sprang at first from her husband's political fame, but she was a letter-writer of high quality in her own right. Surviving letters probably represent only a fraction of those...
James Malcolm Rymer
was a prolific penny dreadfulist, novelist, and journal editor. Although he rarely published under his own name but instead employed a large number of pseudonyms, his works of fiction (which may have...
Lady Margaret Sackville
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Margaret Sackville
was a prolific poet of the earlier twentieth century, whose work spanned a range of poetic genres from dramatic verse to epigrams and fantasy for children. She also wrote fairy-tales, plays, and introductory...
VSW
wrote prolifically and almost obsessively from her childhood in the early twentieth century. She began with poems, plays, and fiction about her family's romantic links to English history. As an adult she used these...
French writer George Sand
(Aurore Dudevant) wrote over one hundred novels and plays. Her correspondence fills twenty-five volumes. She averaged two novels a year after 1831. British writers including Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and George Eliot
MS
's literary career was truncated after only eleven years by her battle with breast cancer. During the mid-nineteenth century she published six works, including poetry, fiction, and two verse dramas.
Sappho
, the female poet who stands at the head of the lyric tradition in Europe, has been a major figure of identification, of desire, of influence, of adulation, and of opprobrium in British women's...
MS
was a later eighteenth-century poet in the Augustan tradition, who says she also wrote a great deal of prose.
Sarah Savage
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SS
, a religious diarist and letter-writer of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, offers insight into women's roles in family and community and into the part played by writing and reading in those roles.
Ethel Savi
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ES
published over ninety novels during the first half of the twentieth century, the majority of them about India, as well as a collection of short stories and a memoir of life under the...
Dorothy L. Sayers
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DLS
is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...
JS
, whose fluent and polished style suggests that she was well accustomed to writing, was a late-eighteenth-century Scotswoman who left a single text: a letter-form journal of travels. With some relations she sailed from...