During the early eighteenth century Winifred, Lady Nithsdale
, wrote family letters about business and relationships. She is remembered for the letter to her sister which tells, with a historian's narrative flair and command of...
CN
, whose life is extemely obscure, produced three published works: a poetry volume and a remarkable novel (both issued within two years during the early nineteenth century) and the translation of a French work...
John Norris
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Caroline Norton
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Publishing over forty years of the nineteenth century, professional woman of letters CN
produced poetry and songs, four novels, stories, and a few unsuccessful plays. She edited annuals and periodicals, where she also published work...
After the untimely death of her only daughter at the end of the seventeenth century, FLN
edited a memorial volume of the daughter's pious meditations, mostly transcribed from her extensive reading as a glorified common-place...
Frances Notley
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FN
wrote novels and short stories from the middle to the late nineteenth century, frequently combining sensational and supernatural elements. Many of her stories are set in her native Cornwall, and draw on the...
Kathleen Nott
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KN
was a philosophical writer, novelist, translator, poet, and critic of the mid twentieth century. Her importance for literary history lies in the position she took up in The Emperor's Clothes, 1953, which challenged...
Charlotte Grace O'Brien
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Irish nationalist CGOB
wrote poetry (through the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth, including many sonnets and a closet drama), a single novel about a Fenian
uprising, and a number of essays, some published...
Edna O'Brien
Throughout her career, contemporary Irish writer EOB
has published novels, short stories, drama, screen and teleplays, poetry, travel writing, and children's books. Her imaginative writing, in which she experiments with linguistic and narrative conventions, almost...
KOB
, twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield
said, Don't despise dance music...
FOC
's writing career began in the mid twentieth century and was interrupted far too soon by her illness and premature death. Her short stories (two volumes) and two novels or novellas spring from an...
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
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COCE
succeeded in earning a living as a journalist in Dublin (in the 1880s) and London (1890s and early twentieth century). She published books on social and political matters, household management, and male conduct, as...
Julia O'Faolain
JOF
, twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish novelist and short-story writer, also published translation, memoir, and women's history, and wrote an afterword to the memoirs of her writer father. Her fiction deals with the confrontation or...
AOK
was first heard of by name in 1804 as a writer of highly successful verse for children; she had already in all probability edited her father
's dramatic works. She went on to do...
Frances O'Neill
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FON
was an Irish poet of the later eighteenth and very early nineteenth century of whom almost nothing is known. She seems to have written both for fun and for much-needed money, and used a...
Ann Oakley
Ann Oakley is one of the most influential feminist voices of twentieth-century English sociology. She has worked primarily on the life-experiences which differentiate women from men, like housework, child-bearing, and the operation of gender in...
EO
is mainly recognized as a poet who wrote sometimes innovative lyrics on a wide range of topics from experiences of motherhood to contemporary politics. Beginning in the 1840s, she published five volumes of poetry...
Anne Ogle
published two novels and a short story. She was best known for her popular first novel, A Lost Love, published in 1855.
Margaret Oliphant
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As the breadwinner for her constantly extending family, MO
was astonishingly productive. She published (sometimes by name, sometimes anonymously, often with no name but with allusion to her previous works) ninety-eight novels, and three times...
