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's Times obituary called him one of the most distinguished and widely influential English poets, critic[s] and university teachers of this century.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Though his output was relatively small (and a...
Anne Enright
AE
is a contemporary Irish writer, appointed in 2015 inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. She is best known for her novels, but she began by writing monologues and other material for the theatre, and has...
The Restoration user of the name Ephelia
was a remarkably assured, forceful, and accomplished poet (as well as a playwright), although she left, outside her single printed collection (1679), only four poems extant: politicalbroadsheets and...
OE
wrote, and published in 1789, the earliest known autobiography by a Black person. This book pioneered the genre of the slave narrative, and increased Equiano's opportunities for publishing other writing (public letters, petitions, and...
Eugenia
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Eugenia is the unidentified signature on a prose answer to a notorious misogynist sermon preached by the Rev. John Sprint
in 1699.
Anne Evans
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AE
was a witty poet and skilled composer of dance songs in the mid to late nineteenth century; she also wrote letters and epigrams. She is known for one posthumously published collection of verses and...
Katharine Evans
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KE
was a Quaker
minister and missionary who, together with her companion Sarah Chevers
, published in 1662 an important pamphlet detailing their experience in prison in Malta, together with their spiritual experiences, prophecies...
Margiad Evans
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ME
began writing both diaries and poetry in her youth. She began publishing in the 1930s with stories, then novels. Her first novel was historical and all are regional, set in the Border country between...
Since the late twentieth century, BE
has written novels both in prose and, unusually, in verse. Her topics range from the romantic history of her own family, to Roman London thousands of years in the...
JHE
, like her mother before her, was one of the best-loved children's writers of the nineteenth century. She published stories and novels for young people, ran (jointly with her sister Horatia Katherine Frances, later Eden
MF
shared her passion for anagrams with Lady Eleanor Douglas
and many others in the earlier seventeenth century. She was unique in publishing a book of verse incorporating anagrams and acrostics on the names of...
Ruth Fainlight
RF
is a poet active since the mid twentieth century who says she is always either writing a poem or waiting with a variety of emotions for the next poem to announce itself. Other forms...
Zoë Fairbairns
ZF
wrote and published her first novel before she went to university at the end of the 1960s. In a career closely linked to the feminist movement, she has published novels, short stories, poetry, plays...
Emily Faithfull
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EF
, Victorian feminist, was a publisher before she was an author. After years of intermittent journalistic writing and editing, she published a novel and a travel book. She also became well-known as a lecturer.
AMF
was the author of a single travel book about Africa, published in 1794. It is important not only as travel writing about an area not generally covered by women, but also as a history...
Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
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As an early seventeenth-century writer of tragedy Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, has an important place in literary history, though her play, like her first translation, was done when she was almost a child. She...
Writing under her pseudonym of VF
, Mary Montgomerie Singleton (later Mary Montgomerie Currie) produced during the later nineteenth and very early twentieth century five collections of poetry, a verse novel, a drama, three prose...
Ann Lady Fanshawe
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ALF
is one of a remarkable group of seventeenth-century memoirists, biographers, or autobiographers whose material was the English Civil War and its aftermath. She is part historian, part political or religious analyst, and part adventure...
CF
wrote mostly in the early nineteenth century, though she began before the end of the old century. She composed private poems and letters (of which only a tiny proportion survive); sophisticated, high-spirited, sharp-tongued parodies...
U. A. Fanthorpe
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The poetry of UAF
was hailed with some enthusiasm when it began to appear in print in the later twentieth century. She was a late starter but once started was consistently prolific. She published verse...
