CG
, who published from the late nineteenth through the first decades of the twentieth century, wrote short stories, an estimated sixteen plays, and novels. Among her fiction, some of the earlier titles concern themselves...
CG
, a labouring-class Scottish poet of the early nineteenth century, wrote in a wide range of genres, from political to religious and autobiographical. Many of her poems are written in Scots, and some are...
Thomas Gray
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Henry Green
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HG
's unusually spare novels, which experiment with a steadily increasing proportion of dialogue to narrative, appeared during the mid twentieth century. He also published an autobiography.
Besides a conduct book, a translation, and a pamphlet, SG
wrote most fictional forms available to her: novels in several modes, stories, romances, and most notably mock-romances. She was one of the ten most prolific...
Kate Greenaway
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KG
was a writer and artist who worked primarily at illustrating books for children during the Victorian era. Her career took off with the publication of Under the Window, a children's book of verse...
An English novelist of exceptional energy, Graham Greene
built a career spanning a dozen genres—most notably more than twenty novels or thrillers, as well as short stories, film reviews, travel books, plays, screenplays, and autobiography...
Dora Greenwell
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A mid-Victorian writer of great versatility, DG
published four books of religious discourse, nine collections of poetry, two volumes of essays, and two biographies. She occasionally contributed to periodicals, both her own prose as well...
Germaine Greer
GG
, scholar and media person, was one of the early and most important voices in the explosion of feminist theory and action in the 1970s. She also worked in journalism and published a satirical...
Augusta Gregory
was a highly energetic and creative force in the Irish Literary Revival, which began in the late nineteenth century. Material from her collections and translations of Irish folklore, epics, and oral poetry inspired...
CMG
was a popular silver-fork novelist, most commonly known as Mrs. Grey to her readers. Her works are often misattributed to her daughter Anna Maria Grey
, or to the unrelated Maria Georgina Grey
(1816-1906)...
Maria Grey
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MG
wrote during the second half of the nineteenth century. Her early productions were literary: she collaborated with her sister
on a narrative and a novel, and then produced a second novel independently. Her later...
The Irishwoman CG
(who apparently came from the lower classes but is never reckoned among the eighteenth-century labouring-class poets) was well-known as a scholar in her lifetime, and might be better known as a poet...
Elizabeth Griffith
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EG
is now best-known as an eighteenth-century novelist and dramatist. But she was best-known in her own lifetime as a writer of fictional letters; and her output as a professional author included translation, short stories...
HG
was a remarkably forceful and plangent Philadelphia lyric poet. Her life spans the time of the American war of independence. More than two hundred of her surviving poems and a large body of letters...
Elizabeth Grymeston
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EG
's single printed book was published as Miscelanea. Meditations. Memoratives in 1604, shortly after her death. It has been seen as a conduct or religious advice book, a collection of essays, or a mother's...
Charlotte Guest
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Lady CG
is remembered as an amateur scholar: her editions (with translation and annotation) of Middle Welsh tales which she called the Mabinogion remained a standard text for almost a century. She was also a...
EG
published, mostly during the later eighteenth century, a number of novels (including the one of her late mother
's which she finished), translations, a children's book, and two unacted plays. Many appeared before her...
SG
began in the mid eighteenth century, at an early age, as a mediocre sentimental novelist: snobbish, stylistically over-elaborate, centring her plots on wished-for ascent to the nobility, and addressing the reader with girlish coyness...
H. D.
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HD, born American, who took British nationality after a marriage which lasted longer on paper than in practice, was a key figure in the international Imagist movement of the early twentieth century and in modernism...
