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Claire Luckham

Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays...

Lady Jane Lumley

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LJL was a Renaissance translator who distinguished herself by producing the earliest extant English version of a tragedy by Euripides , which is also the earliest play by a woman in English. She also translated...
Lady Jane Lumley Black and white photograph of a painting of Lady Jane Lumley by Sieuwert van der Meulen, 1563, companion piece to a portrait of her husband. She stands in formal pose, wearing a long dark skirt and bodice with embroidered decoration. Her tight sleeves are puffed at the shoulders and the gold under-sleeves have small slashes. She has two rows of blue stones below a small ruff, and a circlet head ornament. In one hand she holds a pomander, in the other what might be the household purse.A small label is not le

Edna Lyall

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A highly popular writer, EL published eighteen novels or novellas between 1879 and 1902, as well as a play, an account of her childhood which she designed for young readers, and shorter pieces. Several of...
Edna Lyall Black and white photograph of Edna Lyall by the firm of G. P. Abraham of Keswick. She is shown from the shoulders up, wearing a black and white feather boa over a dress which apparently has a white and black pattern on the body and stripes on the sleeves, She has dark, wavy hair.

Hannah Lynch

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HL was a journalist, novelist, and translator from the 1880s until her death in 1904. She became notorious for her anonymous, fictionalized, early memoir Autobiography of a Child. As an Irish nationalist living in...

Edith Lyttelton

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Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality...
Edith Lyttelton Black and white photograph of Edith Lyttelton, wearing a dark velvet dress with a fur trimmed collar and sleeves, with buttons on the shoulders. She is wearing a choker necklace with a black ribbon, and she has a bow in her light hair, which is pulled back. She has an elbow propped on a table and her head rests on that hand.

Constance Lytton

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Apart from her warm and witty private correspondence, CL is remembered as a writer solely in connection with her early-twentieth-century suffrage involvement, particularly her one-woman campaign to prove that the British government was treating political...
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton

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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton , who began his prolific career as Edward Bulwer, wrote many kinds of novels—from the silver-fork genre (whose name derived from a derisive reference to Bulwer himself as a silver fork polisher...

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton

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Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton

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RBLBL wrote prolifically after her separation from her husband in 1836, penning sixteen novels, as well as a collection of essays and an autobiography. A vein of polemic runs through her work regarding the treatment...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton Stipple engraving of the head of Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, by John Jewell Penstone after Alfred Edward Chalon, 1852. Her face is framed by dark hair and a light gauzy scarf wrapped around her head. Her signature, "Rosina Lytton", appears below. National Portrait Gallery.

Catharine Macaulay

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CM is best known as a radical historian (the only historian of England from a republican point of view for almost two centuries after she wrote). The eight volumes of her History of England took...
Catharine Macaulay Portrait of Catharine Macaulay by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1776. Pine had already done a full-length painting which renders Macaulay's head and shoulders very similarly, but clearly shows her dressed as a Roman matron with the sash of a Roman senator. (The dress was blue and the sash purple; now the colours are reversed.) Macaulay, still rests an arm on a volume of her monumental "History of England", but now within a painted oval, without the classical backdrop of the larger, more political picture. There she

Rose Macaulay

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RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...
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Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay

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Agnes Maule Machar

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Canadian writer AMM wrote eight novels, many dealing with Canadian themes.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
She also published poetry, journalism, biographies, travel guides, and children's literature, often with a didactic tone, and most on social issues such as temperance...
Agnes Maule Machar Black and white photograph of Agnes Maule Machar, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a dark dress with a lace collar and buttons up the front, and her dark hair is pulled back. Below her photograph is the caption, "Agnes Maule Machar: Author of 'Lays of the True North,' etc."

Shena Mackay

SM had published by the close of the twentieth century ten novels and several short-story collections. She has also edited anthologies and written poetry, and she reviews for newspapers. She is highly popular as well...
Shena Mackay Portrait of Shena Mackay. She has cropped white hair with bangs, and wears an orange cardigan. Her arms are crossed in front of her, and she holds her glasses in her left hand. The background is a dark teal.

Anna Maria Mackenzie

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AMM published sixteen novels between 1782 and 1809: anonymously, under her second and third married names and under a pseudonym. She also published (under her first married name) a biblical paraphrase, and she claimed (not...

Cecily Mackworth

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CM , an Anglo-Welsh writer who lived most of her life in France, whose publishing career stretched from the 1930s into the twenty-first century, was described in an obituary as a poet, critic, novelist, biographer...

Sarah Macnaughtan

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Sarah Macnaughtan began her writing career in 1894 with a short story in the London magazine Temple Bar, and published her first novel in 1898. She went on to publish further short stories and...

Katharine S. Macquoid

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Katharine S. Macquoid 's prolific writing career (over sixty books, as well as contributions to periodicals) spanned the last four decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. She was chiefly...
Katharine S. Macquoid Faded black and white studio photograph of Katharine S. Macquoid by H. I. Mendelsohn of London. She is seen from the waist up against a backdrop of vegetation, turning with her face in profile. She wears a dark dress with a high collar closed with a brooch. Her smooth grey hair is pulled back and part covered by a black cap; she has a pearl stud in each ear. Her signature is written across the bottom of the picture.

Judith Cowper Madan

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JCM (formerly Judith Cowper), like almost all of her relations, was a frequent writer of occasional poetry. Most of her surviving poems, and all the major ones, date from about 1720-8, that is from either...

Ella K. Maillart

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EKM was a Swiss traveller whose website calls her [w]riter and journalist through necessity, photographer by predilection.
Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php.
She published five books about her journeys, three books of reminiscence, and numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Collections...
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