CS
was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare
. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely...
MS
was best known for her early-twentieth-century writing on motherhood and birth control, and for her strong commitment to educating women in the practice of contraception. In order to communicate detailed instructions on topics that...
In a writing career that spanned forty-three years of the twentieth century, LS
produced seventeen plays, eleven novels, seven film-scripts, and a volume of short stories. Many of her plays turn on the subjects of...
Mary Stott
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MS
is best known as a later twentieth-century feminist journalist and specifically as editor of The Guardian women's page. She is also worthy of notice for her own various non-fiction writing, in essays, monographs, and...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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HBS
is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a...
JS
published two novels and several pieces of short fiction during her lifetime, in the mid twentieth century. Frances Partridge
writes in her introduction to JS
's memoir that when she died, after a long...
Though RS
published three novels between 1907 and 1927 (and a volume of history in collaboration with her husband
), most of her writing is non-fictional and reflects her deep commitment to women's suffrage, women's...
MEBCS
, an upper-class eighteenth-century eccentric, has been famous chiefly as a marital victim. But her writings (both her tragedy and her highly imaginative autobiography) reflect some literary skill, as well as a highly unusual...
NS
published over five decades of the twentieth century, from the 1930s. Arguably all but seventeen of her sixty-four books were aimed at children. (Some books are classified both ways.) Her adult novels are notable...
HS
was a prolific writer, who during the later nineteenth century produced nearly sixty works of fiction for children and adults, several works of non-fiction, and numerous contributions to a variety of different periodicals. Renowned...
JS
published both children's books and adult novels during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Her final novel comments amusingly and astutely on gender relations and the writing of novels.
Agnes Strickland
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AS
, writing in the middle nineteenth century, won renown as a historian and biographer, particularly of the British royal family and particularly of its female members. In fact all of these books were co-authored...
ES
published her earliest children's book under her name, though her periodical editing was anonymous. But although a number of women writers in various generations have chosen anonymity or obscurity, she is extraordinary in seeking...
Jan Struther
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JS
began to write during the 1920s as a contributor of poems and sketches to journals. She also wrote some still-popular hymns, and edited and wrote for children. She hit the jackpot with her Mrs...
As a novelist and travel-writer and in one book of at least semi-feminist debate, ES
seems to be addressing women; but when she writes on religion she takes men as her subject. With only one...
Lady Arbella Stuart
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LAS
, writing in the dangerous years of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, was a remarkable letter-writer and also a poet.
LLS
, writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, published almost nothing deliberately. It was mostly after her death that her writings filtered into print. Her poems show an acute and original mind...
MS
was a Black British poet, journalist, artist and political activist; she often produced visual and written works in linked pairs. In her poetry, her photographs, her artworks, and her essays, novel, and play, she...
Leah Sumbel
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LS
, an actress of the later eighteenth century, became a remarkable memoirist as well as a journalist and a dabbler in writing for the stage. Her account of her life may be grouped with...
While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland
, has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller
's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her...