MH
is an obscure early-eighteenth-century fiction-writer. It seems that she (assuming that she really was a woman, since the name has been taken as a pseudonym) published just a single, highly unusual work, a novel...
During the later eighteenth century CH
perhaps surprised herself by adding to the role of a domestic family woman those of performer and then scientist. Her writings fall into two related groups: singularly self-effacing diaries...
Living an upper-class life in the eighteenth century, Lady Hertford
did not publish; her patronage activity was as important as her writing. But as well as letters, a fragmentary political journal, and commonplace-books, she wrote...
Elizabeth Hervey
was the author of six novels published between 1788 and 1814, besides one more, extant in a carefully-bound manuscript, which never reached print. They have something in them of sentiment and something of...
GH
was prolific in historical, mostly Regency, romances. She also wrote modern novels (which, however, she later suppressed as unsatisfactory to her), essays, and short stories, and published eleven detective novels written in collaboration with...
Though, as a woman, she worked behind the scenes (not in parliament but through print and private direct action) EH
of Leicester was a major, under-recognised figure in the campaign for the abolition of the...
Emily Hickey
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EH
was a poet of ideas who wrote during the mid to late nineteenth century, developing in her work both her feminist views about reforming social attitudes, and, later, her religious faith as she became...
RH
was an earnest and committed Protestant during the sixteenth century's religious conflicts. She is remembered for the account she wrote down (in 1610 at the age of eighty-four) of her life. It is personal...
PH
, writing from the mid-twentieth century, first in the USA and then in Europe and England, produced short stories and novels, the majority of them variously classifiable as thrillers or suspense fiction, a...
Hildegarde of Bingen
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Hildegarde of Bingen
was a wide-ranging medieval author. She wrote medical texts, a liturgical play, poetry, songs, biblical commentaries, and hagiographies. Her collected correspondence includes letters to many influential people of her time as well...
IH
is best known as a writer for annuals, to which she made at least thirty-four contributions of short stories and comic articles for both children and adults. She wrote six dramas, and also published...
SH
, a poet of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, has been described as a risk-taker, and her poetry as seriously comical. She deals with sexuality, erotic love, and disturbed mental states, all from...
Susan Hill
SH
began publishing very young, and has been extraordinarily prolific throughout the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. She started off as a novelist and short-story writer, and then branched out...
EH
, a Quaker widow about whose life nothing is known, wrote and published a single long poem in 1671.
John Oliver Hobbes
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Writing for a brief period at the turn of the twentieth century, the pseudonymous JOH
(whose actual married name was Pearl Craigie
) was the author of over a dozen novellas, novels, and several plays...
It is fair to say that the fame of MH
's diary rests less on its literary qualities than on its early date: no women's diary in English is known to precede it. It is...
Frances Sarah Hoey
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Published in the latter half of the nineteenth century, FSH
's oeuvre included sensation novels, journalism, translations of French and Italian works, and many reviews. She was actively involved in literary circles, and notable both...
In forty years of writing BH
produced nearly seventy titles, not all discussed here (besides doubtful attributions). They include books for children or young adults and adult novels, with some poems, plays, guidebooks, and handbooks...
For most of her life FC (who began publishing her poems in 1797) was driven in her writing by the urgent need for financial survival, but she shared fully in the hopes of the previous...
