ICB
published twenty novels: the first while she was in her twenties, in 1911, but the first one to use her mature and startlingly original style when she was forty, in 1925. From the beginning...
Joseph Conrad
's publishing career spans a little over the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography judges him to be one of the greatest fiction-writers—and probably the greatest political...
AC
's reputation has been quietly growing into that of a serious late-seventeenth-century philosopher, rather than merely a patron of male philosophers. Her correspondence with Henry More
is full of philosophical as well as personal interest.
AC
, whose work was first published in 1754, is one of the most imaginative cookery-book writers on record; her book includes poetry and story-telling.
Eliza Cook
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EC
was a highly popular poet, journalist, and editor of the mid-nineteenth century, whose songs in particular circulated very widely: set to music, performed in drawing-rooms, reprinted in single sheets, and collected in manuscript. Her...
From her girlhood in the later eighteenth century, CC
had the habit of writing meditations, prayers, and poems on occasions in her life. As an adult she published a single historical novel. She planned to...
As a later twentieth-century novelist, CC
broke records for popularity. On some tallies her number of novels passes one hundred, in addition to children's books and volumes of autobiography. Fiction and autobiography often overlap in...
Elizabeth Cooper
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Elizabeth Cooper
is an obscure, early eighteenth-century writer with considerable talent in the two very different fields of stage comedy (of which she wrote two and published one) and antiquarian research (which led her to...
LC
's writing career spans both sides of the Second World War. Author of twenty novels which deal with human relationships as responsive to the social and cultural conditions of her day, many of them...
MSC
began as a writer of children's books which have not been identified. Between 1762 and 1775 she published four epistolary novels of a didactic and conservative cast (or five, if a radical revision is...
Wendy Cope
WC
is a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century poet who treats everyday concerns, often in demanding forms, such as the sonnet or the villanelle. Her tone is colloquial and she makes these difficult forms look...
MC
was one of the first authors of the modern best seller. She published thirty-one popular novels, including one, published posthumously, which fictionalizes events from her own life. She also wrote short stories (collected...
Frances Cornford
published nine books of poetry and three translations between 1910 and 1960. Her poems usually address the subjects of female lives lived by forced necessity apart from the busy, noisy main stream. Her...
Blanche Warre Cornish
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From sheer force of personality BWC
made a more lasting impression on her contemporaries than was perhaps justified by her two nineteenth-century novels, her scattered essays and reviews, and her twentieth-century book of edited letters...
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
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CFC
was a prolific writer and scholar. Her anonymous, collaborative twenty-volume series Small Books on Great Subjects popularized scientific and technical knowledge, and addressed social concerns. The most common theme in her writing was that...
Harriet Corp
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HC
was an obscure early nineteenth-century writer of religious and didactic fiction (both novels and short stories) with striking talent and intelligence, as well as a strong interest in the spiritual and material condition of...
Louisa Stuart Costello
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LSC
wrote during the first half of the nineteenth century, producing five travel narratives, several volumes of poetry (both original and translated), numerous historical biographies, and more than twenty-five articles for a variety of noted...
