Author profiles

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Ann Fisher

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AF was remarkable first for getting herself an education above the expectations of her class, and then for publishing (from her position within the later eighteenth-century provincial book trade) an English grammar and dictionary (both...
Ann Fisher Fleuron or printer's ornament from Ann Fisher's pedagogical anthology of poems and extracts, "The Pleasing Instructor. or Entertaining Moralist", 1756.

Mary Fisher

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MF , one of the Valiant Sixty (that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...
Mary Fisher Photograph of 1699 drawing of York Castle, where Mary Fisher was imprisoned.

Penelope Fitzgerald

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PF was the author of three biographies, a short-story writer, and much admired novelist of the later twentieth century, who began publishing at almost sixty. Apart from one mystery, her eight novels fall into two...

Gustave Flaubert

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Eliza Fletcher

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Writing during the later eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, EG was an early poet and occasional travel diarist, a lifelong letter-writer, habitual family memoirist, and eventually an autobiographer. Her involvement in...

Julia Constance Fletcher

JCF, or George Fleming, a US national, lived a cosmopolitan life in which her literary activity was largely centred in England during the period 1875-1908. She began with short fiction for magazines, and moved...
Julia Constance Fletcher Black and white photograph of Julia Constance Fletcher

Mary Bosanquet Fletcher

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The devotional diaries kept by MBS during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries constitute her claim to fame. She also published pamphlets, often in the form of letters, and her actual letters of advice...
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher Wood engraving of Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, published 1873. She is wearing a dark cloak with a loose hood over a white cap that encircles her face.

Rosita Forbes

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RF was a popular travel writer of the earlier twentieth century. Her travel books are often flavoured with adventure, and she also published books of biography, essays, stories, political and social commentary, and memoirs, all...
Rosita Forbes Black and white, three-quarter-length photo of Rosita Forbes by Mendoza. She is seated, gazing at the viewer, in a dark hat with wide brim and large artificial flowers, and a fur wrap thrown over an open jacket and light dress with a full, gauzy or lacy skirt. Library of Congress.

Ford Madox Ford

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FMF (who began publishing as Ford Madox Hueffer) was a significant figure in British and international modernism, and a prolific writer during the 1890s and the earlier part of the twentieth century. He produced fiction...

Isabella Ormston Ford

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Isabella Ormston Ford was a dedicated labour activist, suffragette, and anti-war advocate at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advocates her socialist-feminist ideals. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels, all...
Isabella Ormston Ford Black and white photo of Isabella Ford in 1924, sitting reading a book with a telephone beside her. Her body is in profile but she turns her head to face the camera. Her dark hair is parted in the middle and pulled back.

Charlotte Forman

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Writing in the later eighteenth century, CF was a major contributor to the periodical press, with a total that may have reached about 375 of political essays in letter form, averaging something like 1,300 words...

E. M. Forster

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EMF was a major novelist of the early twentieth century (despite his slender lifetime output of five novels). He was also a short-story writer, an influential critic of fiction, and the author of travel writing...
E. M. Forster Painting of E. M. Forster by Roger Fry, 1911. Forster looks straight at the viewer, wearing a greenish suit with handkerchief in breast pocket, seated in a soft chair with patterned and floral cushions.

John Forster

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Margaret Forster

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Margaret Forster 's tally of books, which began to appear in the later twentieth century, neared forty. They run the gamut from novels at one end to history and biography at the other, emphasising the...
Margaret Forster Black-and-white portrait photo of Margaret Forster, looking at the camera and leaning on what could be the back of a couch, 30 January 1964.

Mary Fortune

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MF , publishing under the pseudonyms Waif Wander, M. H. F., and W. W., wrote in a range of genres for the Australian periodical market in the second half of the nineteeth...

Hannah Webster Foster

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HWF published a landmark sentimental novel and a fictional-didactic text at Boston, Massachusetts, in the final decade of the eighteenth century. She also wrote for periodicals.
Hannah Webster Foster Black and white head-and-shoulders reproduction of a portrait of Hannah Webster Foster before 1840. She is wearing a large. stylish hat adorned with ostrich feathers, and a large lacy collar. Her dark hair is in curls.

Mrs E. M. Foster

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Nothing is known about the life of Foster (MEMF ), whose works were published with very limited information about the author. Authorship was indicated sometimes by initials (E.M.F) but mainly via chains...

Jessie Fothergill

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During her relatively short career in the later nineteenth century, Jessie Fothergill produced fourteen novels, many of which ran to several editions and appeared in Indian and Australian journals,
Jane Crisp refers to JF 's...
Jessie Fothergill Black and white photo of Jessie Fothergill. Her hair is short and brushed back. She is wearing a dress with frilly collar, a waistcoat over it, and a brooch on her collar. Her expression is stern.

Martha Fowke

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Apart from her unidentified periodical contributions, most of the early eighteenth-century MF 's writings in prose (epistolary and autobiographical) and poetry have a strongly erotic tone. She has been described as a poet whose writing...