Author profiles

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Mary McCarthy

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United States novelist MMC began publishing her critical essays and novels in the late nineteen thirties. She is best known for her novel The Group, 1963 (about the relations among a group of young...

Carson McCullers

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CMC 's four novels and one novella, published between 1940 and 1961, compose a startling picture of the American South, from which she came: a society in which people's behaviour is in part wholly predictable...
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Medbh McGuckian

MMG , who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored...

Candia McWilliam

CMW is a Scottish writer who has lived for most of her adult life in London. She has published three novels, a volume of short stories, and a memoir. Her writing, family life, and...
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Margaret Mead

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MM was a United States anthropologist whose works, many of them concerned with sexuality or gender and full of comparisons between the customs of primitive societies and those of the contemporary USA, reached a...
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L. T. Meade

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LTM was phenomenal in her output and prided herself on her professionalism. Among her nearly 280 titles (published in the later nineteenth century), most are novels or stories for girls and young women. Others, however...
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Elizabeth Meeke

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EM , who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the...

Elizabeth Melvill

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EM was a staunch Scottish Presbyterian whose surviving poems and letters almost all relate to the efforts of James the Sixth and First to impose episcopacy and other changes on the Kirk. Their religious content...

Louisa Anne Meredith

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LAM began publishing in England during the 1830s. Motivated by a strong love of nature and later inspired by her surroundings in Tasmania (where she arrived in 1840), she produced a total of twenty-one books...
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Eliza Meteyard

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EM , who used the pseudonym Silverpen, was a self-supporting early Victorian writer who published prolifically in a wide range of periodicals, particularly those aimed at the lower-middle and working classes, in addition to...

Charlotte Mew

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Charlotte Mew is best known and regarded as an early twentieth century poet, though she also published a few short stories and essays. Her poems, often dramatic monologues, are haunted by unrequited love, the renunciation...

Alice Meynell

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AM was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during...
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Viola Meynell

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VM wrote during the earlier part of the twentieth century. Her fairly slender output includes religiousnovels, poetry, essays, short stories, and book reviews. Her richly emotional and subtle style is often structured by Christian diction...

Jean Middlemass

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JM 's Times obituary said it would be difficult to state exactly how many books she wrote.
“Obituary: Miss Jean Middlemass”. Times, 7 Nov. 1919, p. 15e.
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In fact it seems that she authored about forty-one popular novels. She also contributed stories to periodicals...

Grace Lady Mildmay

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GLM , an amateur medical practitioner with unusual depth of skill and range of clients, left a mass of medical notes and recipes dating from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She also wrote...

Susan Miles

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SM (who began publishing under her birth name of Ursula Roberts) was a poet and novelist of the earlier twentieth century, who also published a suffrage pamphlet, an admiring biography of her Christian-socialist husband, and...

John Stuart Mill

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JSM was a leader in the intellectual life of the nineteenth century and of liberal or progressive thought. He wrote numerous philosophical works, publishing essays, newspaper articles, reviews, letters, and pamphlets over approximately sixty years...
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Edna St Vincent Millay

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ESVM was a charismatic American poet of the earlier twentieth century, who through her lifestyle came to stand for the sexually and economically liberated woman of the 1920s. She wrote particularly sonnets, love lyrics, and...
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