SB
(if she existed) was an obscure Irish writer who died in the early eighteenth century, before the publication of her collections of national history under the guise of fiction or romance. Someone of this...
MB
published five novels, three collections of short stories, some poems, a memoir, and several essays (one of which denounces the Bloomsbury Group). Her subjects ranged from the Great War and war trauma to history...
ASB
, publishing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is predominantly a novelist of ideas. Her works (stories and criticism as well as novels) are intellectually demanding, typically spinning a complex web of literary and...
AAB
's sole publication is A Sketch of the Analytical Engine, her highly praised explication and illustration of Charles Babbage
's Analytical Engine. Many now claim that her Sketch constitutes the first example of...
A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB
has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...
George Gordon sixth Baron Byron
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Medora Gordon Byron
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Miss Byron, or Medora Gordon Byron, or Julia Maria Byron, whose identity is still a mystery, published either five or eight early-nineteenth-century novels with the Minerva Press, depending on whether or not they...
China provided a centre not only for MC
's life but also for her writing. Of her nineteen works, published in the first half of the twentieth century, most describe her experiences as a traveller...
Jessie Ellen Cadell
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The publishing career of JEC
, scholar and novelist, opened in 1876, less than a decade before the end of her short life. Her single identified critical essay and one of her novels appeared during...
Mary Caesar
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Despite shaky spelling and punctuation, MC
wrote during the early eighteenth century a unique, highly partisan, Jacobite diary or journal, which partakes also of the nature of a memoir, elegy, family history, or commonplace-book. In...
Kathleen Caffyn
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KC
was a New Woman novelist and short-story writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who, throughout her career, worked under the pseudonym Iota. She was best known for her first novel,...
Mona Caird
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MC
, until recently very little remembered, caused a sensation in 1888 with her articles calling for reform in marriage practices. She was already at that date a published novelist, and went on issuing novels...
Elizabeth Cairns
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EC
was a preacher in the earlier eighteenth century. What survives from her life of writing is not her sermons but her religious autobiography.
Margaret Calderwood
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MC
, living and writing in the eighteenth century, is remembered for her travel journal (which grew out of letters to her daughter). As a Scotswoman she reports on the foreign country of England as...
MC
did much of her early-nineteenth-century writing and publication under her first married name of Maria Graham. She is important both as a travel writer and as an art historian. Her writing of Europe and...
AC
was a prolific and well-known author of fiction (more than twenty novels), poetry (three volumes), and autobiography (two volumes) in the final four decades of the nineteenth century and the first few years of...
DPC
, a Shetlander who wrote and published during the early nineteenth century, is remarkable both as poet and novelist. She had poems and short fiction printed in London periodicals, and she deserves to be...
Lady Colin Campbell was a journalist and editor from the mid-1870s until the turn of the twentieth century. Despite the notoriety resulting from being accused of adultery in a divorce case, she won success as...
AC
, labouring-class poet of the late eighteenth century, was first noticed as a writer when her local clergyman gave charity to her needy family at Christmas and she wrote him a poem of thanks...
Joanna Cannan
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JC
published nearly twenty novels (as well as detective novels), and is generally reckoned to be the inventor of the pony story for girls, which turned out to have a bright future, much of it...
