RS
, historical novelist, overcame disability to publish, over a span of forty years from 1950, more than fifty titles. Most are books for the young (billed for those of eleven and upwards, but having...
Alice Sutcliffe
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AS
was an early seventeenth-century religious writer in prose (meditations, a more private form of sermons) and poetry who, unusually for her rank and gender, allowed her work to be printed bearing her own name...
Annie S. Swan
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By the age of forty, just before the twentieth century began, ASS
had published probably over thirty books.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode.
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She claimed not to know her lifetime total, but it must have been approaching two hundred...
Publishing in the mid and later nineteenth century, AS
won fame firstly as a scholar and translator from German and then from ancient Greek. Her work for social causes (especially for the cause of women)...
HS
published two novels and a collection of shorter fictions with the Minerva Press
during the early nineteenth century. She did not put her name on title-pages. A volume of poems and songs has been...
John Millington Synge
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JMS
began publishing early in the twentieth century under the influence of the Irish revival. During his short life he wrote several plays that have remained in the repertoire, while his study of the Aran...
Catherine Talbot
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CT
was a member of the eighteenth-century Bluestocking group. Most remarkable among her poetry and prose (essays and other non-fiction pieces, a fairy story and letters) are the poems of love and loss which have...
ET
is an earnestly religious poet of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, with some humour and some feminist consciousness. She writes narrative poems, hymns, odes, and fables.
Jemima Tautphoeus
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JT
, an Irish-born, mid-Victorian writer who lived most of her life in Bavaria, wrote four novels. Her work was often praised for its descriptions of the Bavarian landscape and people—both upper-class and peasant—who inhabited it.
Having borne and educated a remarkable family of precocious authors, AMT
followed her daughters Ann
and Jane
and her son Isaac
into print in 1814, and produced a series of conduct books and a volume...
ET
published, during the mid to late twentieth century, twelve novels, four collections of short stories, and a handful of essays. As a writer of high calibre whose favourite effects are built on understatement and...
Harriet Taylor
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HT
wrote a number of essays, reviews, poems, and articles on a wide range of subjects, but is most remembered for her contributions to Victorian liberal feminist debate. She also collaborated with John Stuart Mill
HT
wrote essays on suffrage and other feminist issues in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She also edited several volumes of work by others, often providing biographical sketches and introductions.
JT
, a writer of poems for children when she was little more than a child herself, saw herself in adulthood as first and foremost a Christian writer, seeking to change the lives of her...
A committed proponent of female economic independence, MT
was the author of some twenty articles on this and other feminist topics for Emily Faithfull
's Victoria Magazine during the 1860s and 1870s. Many of these...
Elizabeth Teft
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ET
was a poet of the earlier eighteenth century whose work suggests considerable independence of mind. Many of her poems are social or occasional; some are political.
Edith Templeton
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The fiction of ET
, novelist, short-story writer, and travel writer, acquired a high reputation for its force and distinctive style and tone, and notoriety for a degree of sexual explicitness rare in serious women...