Katharine Bruce Glasier
was a socialist-feminist writer and activist at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advances her ideas for social reform. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels all in...
HG
is the most famous of all eighteenth-century cookery writers—that is, her best-known text became almost universally known, while the facts about her life remained until recently unknown.
EG
began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War...
Elinor Glyn
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, a highly prolific and popular twentieth-century romancenovelist, also wrote comedies of manners, and screenplays (mostly for silent films). The sexual candour of her novels shocked her Edwardian public: she became particularly known for...
RG
was a popular writer for much of the twentieth century, author of about seventy books: more than twenty novels for adults (some drawing on her own experiences), as well as about the same number...
CG
is remembered for her only book: a posthumously published collection of travel letters about the early (mid-nineteenth-century) social life and landscape of New Zealand. Brief excerpts from her journals also survive.
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's known publications comprise eighteenth-century novels of an unusually bourgeois tendency, and a long nineteenth-century poem. She wrote because she needed money. Bibliographer James Raven
points out that some of her characters change their...
Maud Gonne
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English-born MG
subjected almost all the writing as well as all the activity in her life to her Irish nationalism. From a highly effective and dramatic orator she became a polemical journalist, first in French...
ESG
's writing career began in the later eighteenth century with a sizeable pamphlet justifying her role in the quarrel with her estranged husband which had landed her in debtors' prison. From this she moved...
NG
was a South African novelist and short-story writer who bore witness in her work first to the struggle against apartheid, then to the problems and challenges of building an interracial nation. She is widely...
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, later Mrs Brown of Falkirk, was known even in her lifetime as a collector and performer of ballads and traditional Scottish songs. She was the earliest performer from whom unprinted ballads were collected...
Catherine Gore
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wrote during the earlier nineteenth century, for needed cash to help support her family.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. Dissertation Thesis, University of Arkansas, May 1992.
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Her publications over more than three decades totalled above 70 titles running to 200 volumes:
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB
wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan
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EG
, a popular writer of the mid-twentieth century, published about forty titles: fifteen novels (many of them historical) and some stories for children, as well as early plays, religious non-fiction, anthologies. and an autobiography.
Françoise de Graffigny
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, novelist, dramatist, and writer of stories, fables, and especially letters,
DeJean, Joan E. et al. “Introduction and Note on Text”. Lettres d’une Péruvienne, Modern Language Assocation of America, 1993, p. ix - xxvi.
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is chiefly remembered, especially in relation to English literature, for her single novel, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, 1747.
SG
is known as a late nineteenth-century women's rights campaigner and social reformer. She claimed to have coined the term New Woman in her articleThe New Aspect of the Woman Question, which appeared...
AG
's life as woman of letters, which had its foundations in a bookish, colonial American childhood and isolated, late-eighteenth-century married years in the Scottish Highlands, was constructed during her residence in Edinburgh during the...
EG
(both under that name and her later one of Elizabeth Smith) was a talented autobiographer, an essayist, and a diarist. Selections from her memoirs and journals were edited and published subsequent to her death...
