Author profiles

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Anna Hume

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AH was a Scotswoman who during the earlier seventeenth century edited work by her father, David Hume of Godscroft , for publication and herself translated Petrarch into English verse.

Mary Catherine Hume

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MCH , who following her marriage published as Mary Hume-Rothery, wrote in a number of genres from the mid-nineteenth century onwards Her works include a biography, several collections of poems (many of which reflect her...

Sophia Hume

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SH was a leading Quaker pamphleteer of the mid eighteenth century. She published religious and moral exhortations, an anthology, and a diatribe against smallpox inoculation, in England and America.

Charlotte Eliza Humphry

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Mrs C. E. Humphry , a journalist at a time when the field was just opening up to women, began her career with a popular newspaper column aimed at women. This chatty column appeared in...

Leigh Hunt

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Violet Hunt

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Known mainly as a popular novelist, VH also published book and theatre reviews, translations, short stories, non-fiction, memoirs, and a biography. Her publishing career covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though often initially...
Violet Hunt Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Violet Hunt with a tabby cat perched on her shoulder. She has short, curly hair, and is wearing a simple, dark shirt.

Anne Hunter

AH was admired during the Romantic period for her poetry, most of it songs and ballads. She wrote her own music for some; Haydn set many others. She also wrote occasional poetry of many kinds...
Anne Hunter Engraving by W. W. Ryland from a lost painting by Angellica Kauffman of Anne Hunter in 1767, before her marriage. She is shown with her forehead resting on an urn; the picture was titled "The Pensive Muse"..

Rachel Hunter

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RH , who published six novels and a conduct-book between 1801 and 1810, says that she began writing at an advanced age. Her novels are sprawling and over-crowded; but her ingenious, role-playing critical prefaces, and...

Zora Neale Hurston

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ZNH was an anthropologist who published articles on the subject of African-American folklore, and who also wrote plays, novels, short stories, political and cultural criticism, and an autobiography. She was a central contributor to the...
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Lucy Hutchinson

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LH has been long known as the author of memoirs of her husband which are also a significant historical account of the Englich Civil War. Her petitions and religious writings were also known, though less...
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Catherine Hutton

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CH was a woman of letters publishing in the early nineteenth century. She began early to write letters and journals; she edited her father's autobiography and his local history, as well as a book of...
Catherine Hutton Photograph of a stipple engraving of Catherine Hutton by William Read, published in 1824,. She is seen from the waist up, wearing a simple dark, high-waisted dress with white linen at the neckline, a light shawl with fringed edges, and a ruffled bonnet or cap, tied with a large ribbon on her dark curly hair. The background features a column and drapery. Below is inscribed as if in italic hand her name and the titles of her novels: "Author of Oakwood Hall, The Miser Married, and The Welsh Mountaineer." Natio

Lucy Hutton

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In her single extant, late eighteenth-century work, LH sounds like a trenchantly feminist theologian, a biblical and in some sense a literary critic. She chose the form of epistles for an earlier printed work which...
Lucy Hutton Colour photograph of St Michael's Church in Beetham, Cumbria, where Lucy Hutton's clergyman husband set up a memorial to her.

Aldous Huxley

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In addition to Brave New World, 1932, one of the most famous dystopian novels of the twentieth century, AH penned more than forty other novels, often satirical, frequently mystical, that confront the dogmas, idiosyncrasies...

Elspeth Huxley

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Most of EH 's writing reflects on her experiences growing up in Kenya and her continued interest in African development. Her output includes both novels and non-fiction: autobiography, travel writing, political exposition, biography, and journalism...

Henrik Ibsen

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The plays of Henrik Ibsen , nineteenth-century Norwegian poet and dramatist, were both controversial and enormously influential in Britain; their use of realist techniques to address contemporary social problems helped to bring about a revolution...
Henrik Ibsen Three-quarter-length painting of Henrik Ibsen by Eilif Peterssen, 1895. Ibsen sits looking straight at the viewer through rimless glasses. He has grey bushy hair and mutton-chop whiskers, and wears a black coat.

Elizabeth Inchbald

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EI was a diarist from her teens. Before and after her debut on as an actress on the London stage in 1780, she considered writing as a way to make a living. Before she had...
Elizabeth Inchbald Photograph of a painting of Elizabeth Inchbald by Thomas Lawrence, c. 1796. She is shown from the waist up, wearing a white cap atop light brown curls. Her dress is white, with a white collar, and the background is a rich brown. The bottom part of the picture is unfinished, only a few sketched lines on blank board.

Jean Ingelow

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JI 's writings spanned the second half of the nineteenth century and led to an immense popularity during her lifetime. She published five volumes of poetry, eighteen works for children, five novels, and a verse...
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Kathleen E. Innes

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Although KEI is today a little-known author, some of her works on literary criticism and Hampshire local history remained in print into the 1980s. During and beyond the first half of the twentieth century, she...

Lucille Iremonger

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LI published articles in periodicals, an exotic cookery book, travel and autobiographical works, novels, an anthology, and in particular historical biographies and studies of psychology. Having grown up in Jamaica, she sometimes wrote about...

Luce Irigaray

LI is a French feminist theorist who is by profession a psychoanalyst and a philosopher. Her writing is considered among the most dense and difficult produced by French feminism, as her language is often deconstructive...