AF
was both a scholar and a poet. Her four poetry volumes, published during the 1780s, are closely and ambitiously related to the traditions of classical, biblical, and English literature. Her collected volume shows that...
JF
, whose career spanned the closing years of the nineteenth century and the Edwardian period, produced fifteen novels and four books of art history, three of which take biographical form. It is surprising that...
PF
had a dazzling success with her first novel in 1927. She went on to publish more than thirty novels, as well as plays for stage and radio, short stories, autobiography, and an important anti-nuclear...
The writing of AF
, who published her first book in 1954 and remains active in the early twenty-first century, falls into several distinct categories. She engaged first in children's writing, then in historical scholarship...
CFT
was a Scottish-born novelist and poet with a taste for melodramatic plots and working-class protagonists. In the later decades of the nineteenth century, she published at least six novels, three poetry volumes, a collection...
Sir James George Frazer
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SJGF
was a late Victorian academic, anthropologist and investigator of aboriginal peoples' religious beliefs and practices. His book The Golden Bough made a huge impact on writers as well as scientists.
Elizabeth Freke
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The early-eighteenth-century remembrances of EF
were edited in 1913 as a diary, but are regarded by their latest editor as a heterogenous group of two commonplace-books and other papers, together making up a life-story dominated...
Mary Frere
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MF
, a studious late Victorian of wide interests, was a largely private writer, who won fame with her re-telling in English of South Indian folktales, fairy stories, and fables. These have been generally treated...
James Anthony Froude
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Roger Fry
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RF
was an art critic and art historian who during the earlier part of the twentieth century was deeply influential in turning British art towards modernism.
Kate Parry Frye
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KPF
wrote prolifically throughout her life. Her most significant work was her diary, in which she meticulousy recorded her daily life from the age of nine until only four months before her death in 1959...
Margaret Fuller
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An important social and cultural critic in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, MF
published in a variety of forms, including travel literature, translations from German (notably Goethe
, about whom she also published...
Publishing all through the 1840s and the 1880s, GF
worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, drama, and most notably the novel. While many of her eleven novels adopt tropes from sensation fiction...
MF
was a Christian feminist who began as a journalist and went on to a prolific late-twentieth-century output of books. She published poetry, a couple of novels, stories for children, biographies of remarkable Christians, collected...
Sarah Fyge
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SF
's career as a feminist poet began when she was very young, in the late seventeenth century, and continued into the eighteenth century. Her letters, although they were printed, seem not to have been...
Mavis Gallant
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Canadian-born Mavis Gallant
lived most of her life in Paris, where she wrote hundreds of short stories, two novels, essays, diaries, and a play during the mid to late twentieth century. Her work, which often...
JG
was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since...
JG
is a prolific, much respected, and still (in 2010) highly productive writer of fiction for children and adolescents, and novels and stories for adults, besides journalism and reviews.
SG
, a stage performer during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, wrote two comedies (one highly original, the other the reverse), one farce, a number of poems, and a couple of short prose...
Constance Garnett
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During the first half of the twentieth century, CG
translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy
, Gorky
, and others, and...
