The writings of TD
(who was born in Bengal, India, where her family originated) reveal the powerful influences both of Bengali culture and of a British colonial education. Writing for only a brief period...
KKD
(poet, novelist, playwright, translator, scholar, and critic of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) grew up and was educated in Calcutta, but has lived in or near Oxford for most of her adult life...
Emily Eden
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Shortly after the middle of the nineteenth century, EE
published two novels (one of them begun during the 1830s) and a volume of her letters from India. She also published a collection of her...
ME
wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as...
ME
was a novelist popular in her day who published more than fifty romances between 1909 and 1955, besides serials, short stories, and plays. Several of her plays did well on stage. One of her...
Amelia B. Edwards
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ABE
sustained a moderately successful authorial career, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century when she made the choice of writing as a profession—something she needed in order to earn a living. She was a periodical contributor...
GE
(born Mary Chavelita Dunne), writer of New Womanshort stories, has been called the first English writer to present female sexual drives explicitly as existing independently of and differently from male sexuality.
Bjørhovde, Gerd. Rebellious Structures. Norwegian University Press, 1987.
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Her stories...
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian feminist author NES
wrote hard-hitting polemic on social and political topics (unjust legal systems, interrogation, censorship, misuse of political power) and especially women's topics—clitoridectomy, prostitution, forced marriage, rape, honour killing, the hijab, and other...
LE
, born in Denmark in 1882, was an artist rather than an author. She wrote one major work: her life narrative about her years as a man, her embrace of her female identity, and...
GE
, one of the major novelists of the nineteenth century and a leading practitioner of fictional realism, was a professional woman of letters who also worked as an editor and journalist, and left a...
TSE
, an American settled in England, was the dominant voice in English poetry during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as an immensely influential critic. His early experimental poems excel at...
Queen Elizabeth I
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QEI
was a scholar by training and inclination (who wrote translations both as learning exercises and for recreation), as well as a writer in many genres and several languages. As monarch she wrote speeches, and...
Author of three volumes of poetry published in the second half of the nineteenth century, LCE
frequently saw her work linked to that of other Scottish writers. Her poems draw on religious and mythological themes...
Charlotte Elliott
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CE
was a prolific author in the mid nineteenth century of religious lyrics, many of them hymns, which circulated in periodicals, annuals, and collections. Her enduring reputation rests on the hymn Just as I am—without...
GE
is not a courtesan memoirist in the usual sense, since her one surviving work, her published journal, is silent on the topic of her love-affairs. It covers exclusively her experience, mostly in Paris...
The prolific SSE
, author of thirty-four books, was the most popular writer of Victorian conduct literature. Her four advice books addressed women in the burgeoning middle class; she also wrote novels, poems, and didactic...
EE
is noteworthy as the first female scholar in the newly opening field of the Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) language. She was also a translator, a biographer, and a promoter of learning for women and...
Anne Katharine Elwood
published two books in the mid-nineteenth century: one a narrative of her travels to India, and the other a collection of biographies of English women writers.
Buchi Emecheta
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BE
was an African writer settled in England and writing about life in London from the point of view of a foreigner or immigrant trying to make her way. Looking back from afar at her...
