HA
was a diarist and spiritual autobiographer (of the Presbyterian
sect) of the later seventeenth century.
Margery Allingham
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MA
, best-known as a detective writer of the earlier twentieth century, was highly professional in her reliance on her craft to make her an income. Though she called herself a slow worker, her exceptional...
William Allingham
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Gillian Allnutt
Recognized as one of the most original and thought-provoking poets writing in the North-East of England, Gillian Allnutt has published ten collections of poetry to date. With a writing career spanning nearly four decades...
Laurence Alma-Tadema
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LAT
wrote in many genres during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. She contributed to various periodicals (including The Yellow Book) and published her own collections of stories and poems, as well...
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Maya Angelou
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MA
overcame the unpromising circumstances of her birth and upbringing to become an African-American poet, song-writer, autobiographer, and political activist, a talented Renaissance woman of the twentieth-century United States.
Younge, Gary. “Maya Angelou: a titan who lived as though there were no tomorrow”. The Guardian.
Jane Anger
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JA
may have been an actual woman; or the text that was published in this name in 1589 may have been written by a man. There is no doubt of the interest and value of...
Anna Livia
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Beginning in the later twentieth century, Anna Livia
has written, compiled, and translated short stories and novels, as well as social and literary criticism and theory. In her fiction and non-fiction she is concerned with...
Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
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As Lady Craven in the late eighteenth century, EMA
, wrote plays in many genres (from comedy, tragedy, and farce, through pastoral to opera and pantomime), as well as poetry and an unusual novel. Some...
Hannah Arendt
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HA
trained as a philosopher and spoke of philosophy as her first love. She became better known for her writings on modern history and political theory, in essays, monographs, and her famous or notorious reporting...
Ariadne
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The unidentified, seventeenth-century playwright Ariadne
is notable for writing—and getting staged—at least one delightful, feminist-inflected comedy.
Matthew Arnold
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Pat Arrowsmith
PA
's writing—novels, poetry, memoirs and non-fiction, spanning much of the later twentieth century—reflects her lifelong commitment to militant political activism. Her work firmly expresses her socialist, pacifist, and feminist politics and often contains a...
Elizabeth Ashbridge
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EA
was an early eighteenth-century Quaker
minister whose preaching was highly valued and who wrote her life-story for the edification of others.
Daisy Ashford
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Daisy Ashford
was an avid writer as a child. She became famous when she rediscovered a novella she wrote at the age of nine, The Young Visiters, and it was published with a preface...
Anne Askew
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AA
's fame as a Prostestant martyr was in origin dependent on her own testimony. Her accounts of her legal trials in 1545 and 1546, with torture—part debate, part autobiography, part reporting—are unique texts. Her...
Lady Cynthia Asquith
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LCA
is chiefly remembered as a diarist of the First World War, who gives a unique picture on its impact, both detailed and profound, on the lives of the English governing class. She also published...
Mary Astell
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Best known as a feminist theorist and polemicist, MA
is also a fine poet and an energetic and funny controversialist on the political affairs of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. A High Anglican...
