Author profiles

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Jeni Couzyn

JC , poet of the twentieth century and later, calls herself a blend of several nationalities (South African, British, and Canadian) and of many identities. She is a feminist anthologist as well as a poet...

Rosalind Coward

RC is the author or co-author of nine books and many articles, ranging in subject from critical and feminist theory through cultural analysis to biography. Her important works of the late 1970s and the 1980s...

Abraham Cowley

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Hannah Cowley

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HC , who is said to have become a dramatist by accident and who probably persevered out of necessity, achieved in time great stage success during the late eighteenth century. She was well acquainted with...
Hannah Cowley Print of the young Hannah Cowley. She sits on a chair in front of a heavy curtain pulled back. Her body is turned to her right, while she looks to the left in semi-profile. She holds a book on her lap, and wears a gown with short sleeves and low neckline, and long gloves. Her hair is styled in a mass of curls on her head and falling down her back.

Mary Countess Cowper

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Most of MCC 's extant writings were produced with some immediate political purpose. Even her loving letters to her husband are attentive to the state of the nation and to his career within it. Other...
Mary, Countess Cowper Portrait of Mary, Countess Cowper, by Godfrey Kneller or one of his school, 1709. She sits facing the viewer, head a little turned to her right, on a stone bench, by a fountain in front of a stone column and landscape. She wears a voluminous golden gown with white lace showing at the wrist and deep neckline, and holds a book in her right hand. A piece of paper with writing on it lies beside her.

Sarah Lady Cowper

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SLC is best remembered for the diaries which she kept between 1700 and 1716 and for the eleven volumes of commonplace-books in which, from 1670 till 1700, she recorded excerpts from her voracious and highly...
Sarah, Lady Cowper Photograph of a half-length painting probably of Sarah, Lady Cowper, by one of the circle of Enoch Seeman. She wears an ivory gown with a lace-filled décolleté, and a contrasting blue band at waist and sleeves. Her dark hair is piled on top of her head.

William Cowper

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Edith Craig

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EC was primarily a theatre practitioner, known chiefly for her Pioneer Players , the women's theatre company she founded in 1911. Her literary output was scant. She published a handful of articles on stagecraft, and...
Edith Craig Black and white photograph of Edith Craig, shown from the shoulders up. Her head is leaning against one hand, her light hair is cut short, and she is wearing a black jacket with a white collar and cuffs, over a white shirt with ruffles at the front.

Isa Craig

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Isa Craig was a poet, journalist, editor, and novelist whose literary work was informed by the concerns of the mid-Victorian feminist movement. Her verse appeared in several periodicals, including the feminist English Woman's Journal...

Dinah Mulock Craik

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A prolific mid-Victorian professional writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and travel writing, DMC published twenty novels whose commitment to Christian ideals of self-sacrifice and Victorian middle-class values joins with trenchant feminist critique and narrative innovation....
Dinah Mulock Craik Oil portrait of Dinah Mulock Craik, by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, 1887. She sits in a wooden chair, her full-figured torso facing to her left but her face turned to look directly at the viewer and hands folded in her lap. She wears a dark dress which merges with the dark background, and a white high-collared blouse with embroidery at the sleeves and lacing in front. She wears a lace headpiece hanging from her grey hair, and her expression is stern. National Portrait Gallery.

Georgiana Craik

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GC wrote over thirty novels, works for children, and contributions for periodical publications, between the mid and the late nineteenth century. Her novels frequently use sensational scenarios, and often feature self-sufficient heroines who prove to...

Helen Craik

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During the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth, HC wrote both poetry and novels. Her fiction included some historical and some contemporary works.
Helen Craik Photograph of the ten-line, unsigned poem that Helen Craik wrote in her own hand to celebrate Robert Burns, at the head of the Glenriddell Manuscript of his work. National Library of Scotland.

Ann Batten Cristall

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ABC 's single book of poems is a remarkable text of women's Romanticism.

B. M. Croker

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BMC was a sharp-eyed observer of people and places. Her nearly fifty novels (published between 1881 and 1917), and her stories in periodicals and collections, are often set either in her native Ireland or in...
B. M. Croker Black-and-white photograph portrait of B. M. Croker, wearing a blouse or dress with puff sleeves and a star brooch.

John Wilson Croker

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Margaret Croker

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MC , publishing in the early nineteenth century, is a competent poet (best when least formal) but an outstanding novelist, even on the evidence of her one identified work of fiction (among at least three published).

May Crommelin

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In the fifty years following 1874 MC published an average of over a book a year, besides contributions, mostly fictional, to magazines. Most of her books are novels and most of those are romances. Some...

Richmal Crompton

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Richmal Crompton 's great popularity during her lifetime and her later enduring fame rest on her extraordinary outpouring of William stories for children, published between 1922 and 1970. There were thirty-eight books of William stories...
Richmal Crompton Black-and-white portrait of Richmal Crompton, wears a dark, velvety hat and tweed blazer.

Camilla Crosland

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Though most prolific as a poet, CC also published short stories, novels, music lyrics, translations, essays, and memoirs in a career that spanned the last sixty years of the nineteenth century. Her work was frequently...

Victoria Cross

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In the course of a forty-year career that began in the final decade of the nineteenth century, the pseudonymous Victoria Cross published nearly two dozen novels, three collections of short stories, and several plays, and...