MDF
was a Baptist—and anti-Catholic—religious, theological, and political polemicist active during the 1780s and 1790s who wrote with force and imagination, especially in her verse. She published one more private poem, an elegiac ode.
Elizabeth De la Pasture
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EDP
had a successful career as a popular playwright (few of whose dramas reached print) and novelist. She also wrote short stories for periodicals, and a single story for children which had great success a...
TD
was an Irish playwright of the earlier twentieth century, who also wrote stories, radio plays, and a children's book. A select bibliography lists fourteen stage plays (in three acts or one), and nine radio...
Daniel Defoe
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E. M. Delafield
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EMD
's charming, witty novels are characterized by acute observation and good-humoured social satire. Her stories often draw from her own experiences—as an Edwardian débutante, a novice in a religious order, a war worker, and...
In the late 1950s Shelagh Delaney
enjoyed a shortlived burst of success when her first play, A Taste of Honey, was produced by Joan Littlewood
's Theatre Workshop
. She was then considered one...
MD
's writing was unpublished in her lifetime during the eighteenth century, but letters, occasional poems, and other writings (a libretto, a romance) were as much part of her daily life as her art works...
ED
is remembered for her manuscript book about her own early life, drafted in 1663-72, during her teens and early twenties (sometimes called either a diary or a commonplace-book). Its obvious motive was religious self-examination...
Ethel M. Dell
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EMD
, the author of twenty best-selling novels published before and after the first world war, also produced eight volumes of short stories. Each novel features an introductory poem.
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Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
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When she began writing for...
Charlotte Dempster
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In a writing career that lasted almost thirty years of the later nineteenth century, CD
published six novels, numerous essays (some of which she re-issued in a collection), a travel-narrative, a cookbook, and a devotional...
Anita Desai
AD
, an Indian writer of partly European descent who has lived in both England and the USA (where she is now settled), focuses her psychologically-oriented novels on the predicaments of women, immigrants and displaced...
CD
, who wrote and published during almost sixty years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, began with romantic novels, then allowed her already existent interest in political issues to percolate into her...
MD
is a remarkably interesting and talented miscellaneous writer of lower-class background and strong feminist views. Her essays and short poems (published in the later eighteenth century) are delightful, her longer narrative poem and tragic...
Anne Devlin
AD
, a playwright and screenwriter born in Northern Ireland, often writes about the impact of nationalist and Republican politics on women's private lives. Dream and memory also figure prominently in her work.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
, best-known as an aristocrat of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who made herself a centre of sexual scandal, also published her own travel-book, and left rich unpublished diaries and...
An occasional or amateur author during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, wrote in a number of genres: poetry, diaries, travel writings, letters, and possibly two novels. Much of...
A prolific novelist, journalist, and editor of periodicals such as Household Words and All the Year Round, CD
crucially shaped Victorian fiction both by developing it as a dialogical, multi-plotted, and socially aware form...
Mary Angela Dickens
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Between the late 1880s and mid-1920s MAD
produced writing that was, like her life, shaped by her relationships with family members and her roles in the literary venues they established. Her body of work is...
MD
was a popular memoirist, novelist, journalist, and writer for children who was active from just before the Second World War until late in the twentieth century. Her fiction is usually closely bound up with...