Author profiles

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

David Garrick

-

Elizabeth Gaskell

-
Elizabeth Gaskell , one of the foremost fiction-writers of the mid-Victorian period, produced a corpus of seven novels, numerous short stories, and a controversial biography of Charlotte Brontë . She wrote extensively for periodicals, as...
Elizabeth Gaskell Photograph of a well-known head-and shoulders drawing of Elizabeth Gaskell by George Richmond, 1851. She looks calmly at the viewer, her smooth hair parted in the middle, with a ribbon or scarf hanging from her head and a bow at her neckline. She thought the drawing on the whole a good likeness. National Portrait Gallery.

Margaret Gatty

-
MG was a popular and influential children's writer (of fiction and a famous periodical) and scientific writer in the mid-nineteenth century. She began by publishing a biography of her father. Apart from her writings she...
Margaret Gatty Faded sepia head-and-shoulders photo of Margaret Gatty in profile. Her smooth hair is gathered at the nape of her neck and her eyes cast down. Her dress is dark, with lace at the collar and bust, and she wears drop earrings.

Mary Gawthorpe

-
MG , from a working-class family with a tradition of self-education, became a remarkable speaker and writer on behalf of women's suffrage. She co-edited The Freewoman, working somewhat uneasily with Dora Marsden . Her...
Mary Gawthorpe: Biography Sepia photograph of a young Mary Gawthorpe leaning sideways in an armchair with her head propped on one hand. She wears a blouse with full sleeves and a waistcoat over it. Her short, curly hair is centre-parted and brushed back. An inscription in capitals reads "Miss Mary Gawthorpe. National Women's Social and Political Union, 4 Clements Inn London W. C."

Maggie Gee

MG 's novels are deeply marked by the various threats that dominated the late twentieth century: nuclear damage, global warming, urban disintegration. They often centre on the particular difficulties and dilemmas of women's lives and...
Maggie Gee Head-to-toe colour photo portrait of Maggie Gee at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 9 October 2010. She is wearing a black and red outfit, complete with red-laced shoes, a red coat, and red rings on her fingers. The photo is taken outside.

Pam Gems

-
PG launched her playwrighting career in 1972 at the age of forty-seven. She went on to create a number of strong female roles, often recasting historical figures in unromanticized terms. In addition to her own...
Pam Gems Black-and-white photo of Pam Gems, December 1979. She looks caught in a candid laugh, as if mid-sentence. She holds a cigarette in her right hand and is leaning forward behind the back of a chair.

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis

-
SFG , French aristocrat, royal mistress, and later a political refugee in England, made her mark as an educational theorist and writer for children (plays, stories, and good advice) during the decade leading up to...
Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis Painting of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1790. She is seated in a green upholstered chair, her arms folded on her lap, one hand holding a small fan. She wears light green gloves, a blue silk dress with layers of neckerchiefs and a lacy bow at the neck. Her curly, powdered hair is partly covered by a lace bonnet with huge silvery bows.

Dorothea Gerard

-
DG was a novelist and romance-writer whose general conservatism co-existed with a piercing eye for relations across national and ethnic divides, for antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. She was the author, too, of an...

Emily Gerard

-
EG wrote and published novels, short stories, reviews, and a travel book during the late nineteenth and very early twentieth centuries. Her earliest novels were produced in collaboration with her more prolific younger sister, Dorothea

Karen Gershon

-
Primarily a poet, and by force of circumstances a poet of the Holocaust and the Kindertransport, KG also published collective biography, autobiography, social history, novels, and translation.
Karen Gershon Black and white photograph of Karen Gershon, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark turtle neck and her hair is short, white, and wavy.

Phebe Gibbes

-
PG was an eighteenth-century novelist (of great gifts but extreme obscurity), who also wrote (from financial need) drama and periodical essays, and projected a sociological study of the lower classes. Her canon is, like most...

Stella Gibbons

-
SG was a gifted comic writer whose lively, parodic first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, was such a success that it has tended to eclipse her later achievements. Much of her writing was inspired by...
Stella Gibbons Black-and-white photo of Stella Gibbons, 28 November 1977. She is posing in front of bookshelves, looking off into the distance from behind tortoise-shell glasses.

Agnes Giberne

-
In a publishing career that spanned nearly forty years of the nineteenth century and a couple of decades of the twentieth, AG issued more than 108 books. Her bibliography is still not properly elucidated, since...

André Gide

-
AG was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth...

Ann Taylor Gilbert

-
ATG , her next sister and two brothers, wrote and published seventy-three books. The first and most famous title appeared in 1804-5. Most of these works were collaboratively authored in various combinations. They were mainly...
Ann Taylor Gilbert Black and white illustration from pastel of Ann Taylor Gilbert by her son Josiah Gilbert, which he used in editing her Autobiography in 1874. She is sitting in a chair upholstered in patterned material. She is wearing a white bonnet tied in a bow under her chin, circular glasses, and a black dress. She is sitting with her head slightly inclined, with her hands together and her fingers laced.

Anne Hart Gilbert

-
AHG , a woman of colour, is remarkable not only for the leadership role she took in her Caribbean community during the early nineteenth century, but also for her writings. These (unpublished during her lifetime)...

Elizabeth Gilding

-
EG was primarily a magazine poet of the 1770s and 1780s, who also published a collected volume of her poems. Her writing deals in rapture both spiritual and erotic, in marital and maternal devotion, in...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

-
CPG , a prolific early twentieth-century American writer and feminist social critic, published satirical poems and nationalist verse, newspaper articles, short stories, serialized novels, and a vast amount of non-fiction. She was unapologetically didactic, and...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Black and white photograph of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, shown in profile, from the torso up, with one hand resting on a fur wrap. She wears a dark jacket over a white shirt and her wavy hair is done in a loose bun.

Hélène Gingold

-
HG dabbled in many genres. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she wrote four books of poetry, three novels, two short story collections, two plays, and two volumes of satirical sketches of persons...