Anna, Lady Miller, is best-known as a patron of poetry during the later eighteenth century. She published a travel book, and a serial collection of the poems entered for the performance-oriented contests at which...
Betty Miller
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During the earlier half of the twentieth century, BM
published seven novels (with a hiatus after her fourth and most controversial was initially rejected), essays, short stories, and book reviews, and wrote plays for both...
Christian Milne
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CM
was a labouring-class Scottish poet of the early nineteenth century, who also wrote an autobiographical letter.
MM
was a minor eighteenth-century sentimental novelist. Her literary career was bound up with that of her sister, and the account reflected in standard reference books has rendered her nearly invisible by assimilating a number...
Hope Mirrlees
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Much of the sparse information currently available on HM
focuses on her lasting personal relationship with eminent scholar Jane Harrison
rather than her own body of writing, which includes poetry, novels, and biographies (published and...
Naomi Mitchison
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During her life of over a century (she narrowly missed living from the nineteenth into the twenty-first) NM
averaged almost a book a year. She published novels, short stories, diaries, poetry, travel books, essays, and...
MRM
, poet, playwright, editor, letter-writer, memoirist, and—in just one work—novelist, is best known for her sketches of rural life, especially those in the successive volumes of Our Village (whose first appeared in 1824). Her...
NM
is best-known for her novels, witty comedies of twentieth-century manners which draw on her own privileged background. Her accounts of love and disappointment among the upper classes frequently include political references (fascism, communism) or...
Writing from before until after the second half of the twentieth century, GM
has covered a huge span of genres. Having written poetry in youth, she turned to journalism (on outdoor subjects) when short of...
Deborah Moggach
DM
's literary career dates from the 1970s. By 2004 she had produced fifteen novels, a number of television screenplays, and two volumes of short stories, besides her journalistic output (reviews, essays, interviews). Her novels...
MLM
, writing in the later nineteenth century, was immensely prolific and successful as a writer for children. Of her publications (just over a hundred titles) only a few novels and volumes of stories are...
Mary Mollineux
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MM
, a Quaker
of the later seventeenth century, wrote in prose and poetry all her life. Her surviving prose consists of religious meditations and letters; her poetry, also centred on God and her faith...
Elizabeth Montagu
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EM
, eighteenth-century Bluestocking leader, is known on the one hand as an informal letter-writer, and on the other hand for ambitious critical intervention in canonicity and cultural debates, with her critical study of Shakespeare
MSM
is the almost certainly pseudonymous author of an eighteenth-century essay in four verse epistles in praise and defence of women.
Charlotte Montefiore
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CM
published her works during the 1840s and 1850s, largely in anonymity. Though she began her literary career by editing, funding, and contributing to a series of short stories, her belief that literature should be...
L. M. Montgomery
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LMM
is known around the world as the creator of the Anne of Green Gables books, an enormously popular series of novels written primarily for children about a red-headed girl growing up in Prince Edward...
SM
is best remembered for her first-person narrative of pioneer life in Canada, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852, considered a foundational work of Canadian literature. She was a prolific author who wrote...
Elizabeth Moody
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EM
was a talented and independent-minded poet of the later eighteenth century, who also worked professionally as a reviewer into the early years of the nineteenth. She was said to be a remarkable letter-writer. She...
