Mary Anne Jevons
came from a literary family and was encouraged to write from an early age. Having begun by editing a collection of her family's poetry, she went on during the early and mid...
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Active during the latter part of the nineteenth century, United States author SOJ
wrote fiction in the form of short stories, novels, and novellas. Her interest in experimentation, and a particular skill in delineating character...
During her life, Geraldine Jewsbury
wrote six novels and two books for children. Widely published in Victorian periodicals, she was a respected reviewer, editor, and translator. Her periodical publications ranged from theatre reviews, short fiction...
MJJ
, born in 1800, was a poet, novelist, reviewer, travel writer, children's writer, and essayist. Before her death at the age of thirty-three, she published a two-volume collection of fiction, essays, and poetry, as...
In a society that valued modesty, where women refrained from seeking treatment from male doctors for some medical problems, SJB
saw a need for women doctors. Through extensive conflict, she became the third woman to...
RPJ
has been successful in two careers: as a novelist (a dozen titles) and short-story writer (eight collections), and as an author of film scripts (twenty-three), many of them adaptations from published fiction.
A poet, children's writer, and short-story writer , MJ
is known for her her trenchant autobiographical approaches to social issues. As well as writing poetry and short stories, she is also a radio broadcaster and a...
Jane Johnson
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JJ
, an eighteenth-century country clergyman's wife, published nothing, but she used her writing to examine the meaning of her life and to confront its problems.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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She left letters (which incorporate poetry, fiction, and...
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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PHJ
had a long and prolific writing career, from before the second world war until late twentieth century. She is remembered primarily as a novelist (with twenty-seven titles),
Hadley, Tessa. “He wants me no more”. London Review of Books, Vol.
PJ
is best remembered for the poemThe Song My Paddle Sings, published in 1892, which has been memorized by generations of Canadian school children, but she also wrote short stories and journalism, and...
Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ
achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...
EJ
is one of the few working-class Victorian women whose poetry made it into print in volume form. Along with her autobiography, her poems provide invaluable evidence of the limited opportunities—material, social, and discursive—available to...
Jennifer Johnston
JJ
, a twentieth-century Irish novelist and playwright, often focuses on Irish historical and political themes in the fourteen novels she had published by 2007.
Moloney, Caitriona et al. Irish Women Writers Speak Out: Voices From the Field. Syracuse University Press, 2003.
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She writes about coming-of-age themes, issues of loyalty and...
CIJ
is remarkable both for her pioneering of the Scottish national tale (in the early nineteenth century, neck and neck with Sir Walter Scott
) and for her long-continuing career in journalism, as contributor and...
EJ
, writing in the later twentieth century, was called the most comical and disturbing writer working in Australia today.
Bird, Delys, and Brenda Walker, editors. Elizabeth Jolley: New Critical Essays. Angus and Robertson, 1991.
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The author of some fifteen novels as well as plays, poetry, and short stories...
E. B. C. Jones
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EBCJ
was a modernist writer, author of two books of poetry, editor of a modernist poetry anthology, and author of five novels, besides reviews. She almost entirely stopped publishing more than thirty years before she...
Mary Jones
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MJ
, writing in the mid and later eighteenth century, is remarkable for publishing her work, although it was written in a private context. She is still under-rated both as a poet and as a letter-writer.
The most learned as well as the most self-deprecating of the seventeenth-century writers of mother's legacies, EJ
composed her deeply religious text when pregnant with her first child, in the belief (accurate, as it...
James Joyce
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Irish exile JJ
, hailed by Yeats
as a new kind of novelist even before his first novel was published, became one of the leading practitioners of modernism. As well as poems, a play, and...
