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...
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...
Emily Dickinson
is primarily known for her poems; she was also a letter writer. She published very little during her lifetime and the full scope of her output—some 1,775 poems—was discovered only after her death....
EAD
published six novels between 1880 and 1892: these novels combine murders and melodrama with serious treatment of the need for social reform and of the intelligent woman's search for a meaningful place in society...
Wilhelm Dilthey
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Isak Dinesen
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ID
, cosmopolitan fiction-writer of the mid twentieth century writing in Danish and English, produced short stories in periodicals and collections, a couple of novels, and two highly unusual books about Africa in which the...
A highly unusual personality, Lady Florence Dixie
was also a highly unusual late-Victorian writer. She was a precocious poet: the verses she claimed to have written in childhood awoke an extraordinary chorus of praise. She...
As a suffragist writing at the turn of the century, EHD
often deals with the question of female independence, while critiquing fin de siècle society. Along with her extraordinary New Woman novel, she produced a...
SD
, who began writing poems by 1703, seems from the late appearance of her poetry volume as if she belonged to a later generation than she did. The book is notable for her writing...
SD
was a later eighteenth-century medieval scholar, translator, and populariser of historical knowledge.
Anne Docwra
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As an elderly woman in the late seventeenth century, AD
published at least seven polemical tracts, most of them defending the Quakers. Her work shows her to have been a leader of local public opinion...
Lady Gertrude Georgina Douglas (later Stock) wrote during the later nineteenth century under the name of George Douglas
. She used the novel both as a means of earning money and as a vehicle for...
Lady Eleanor Douglas
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The known tracts and prophecies of LED
(formerly Davies), published during the long political crisis of the mid seventeenth century, numbered at last count 69 extant texts and 77 including those which have apparently not...
