EOB
, a writer of the Romantic period, remains best-known for her precocious yet astonishingly mature Female Geniad (a poem celebrating women writers); but her other works in poetry, fiction, history, and memoirs show a...
Anna Maria Bennett
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AMB
's novels are remarkably bold for the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century (as well as skilful) in their handling of controversial sexual and social themes (like class issues, and sexual abuse). Her works...
Arnold Bennett
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An extraordinarily prolific English writer of both literary-realist and mass-interest novels, short stories, pocket philosophy self-help manuals, plays, journal articles and book reviews, AB
was acclaimed as an artist in his own time and was...
Stella Benson
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SB
's fiction and travel-writing, and also her poetry and diaries, are rich in visual impact and imaginative oddity. She is an acute observer of material and emotional reality of the earlier twentieth century, into...
Theodora Benson
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TB
published over a thirty-year span in the earlier twentieth century. Most immediately successful among her works in terms of sales were books of the currently fashionable flippant humour, most of them in collaboration with...
Inez Bensusan
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Inez Bensusan was an Australian-born actress who played a prominent role in the Actresses' Franchise League
in London. Although she wrote only three one-act plays herself, as head of the AFL Play Department she...
Elizabeth Bentley
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EB
was a labouring-class poet of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, who provided with her poems an account of her life designed to raise patrons. Her work was sufficiently religious and submissive in...
Phyllis Bentley
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Phyllis Bentley
was a prolific and successful novelist, literary critic, short-story writer, children's writer, and journalist, who was productive over a broad span of the twentieth century. Almost all her twenty-eight novels and numerous short...
Annie Besant
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AB
is known primarily for two streams of non-fiction writing, one concerning birth control and the other the Theosophist movement. However, this omits much of the remarkable output whose topics ranged from women's rights and...
Sir Walter Besant
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Mary Matilda Betham
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MMB
, writing during the Romantic period, had a vocation as a poet which she took very seriously and which was recognised during her lifetime by positive reviews and the respect of more famous poets...
Matilda Betham-Edwards
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Over the course of a career spanning the later nineteenth century and the opening decades of the twentieth, MBE
maintained a phenomenally high publishing output and covered most viable genres. She was best known for...
John Betjeman
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JB
was a writer of popular, plangent, often nostalgic poems, who served as Poet Laureate from 1969. He also published an autobiography in blank verse, a novel about a teddy bear, and books and articles...
Elizabeth Beverley
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EB
's works, all opportunistic money-raisers, are pamphlets of many different kinds, dating from the early nineteenth century. Their production was closely connected with her career as a stage performer. Some are in verse, while...
L. S. Bevington
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LSB
was an essayist, philosopher and poet, one of a very small handful of publishing anarcho-communist women. She issued three collections of poetry, over thirty essays, and a small number of translations in the latter...
Hester Biddle
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HB
is one of the most powerful as well as one of the more prolific seventeenth-century Quaker
writers of polemical prophecies or tracts. She depicts in hypnotic, biblical language the imminent end of the world...
Mary Frances Billington
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MFB
established her reputation as a journalist by holding a number of prominent posts on English newspapers and reporting on major social concerns and events, roles that were typically unavailable to women at the turn...
Mabel Birchenough
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MB
published three novels and a guide book between 1885 and 1901. She also frequently contributed literary articles to Nineteenth Century.
Isabella Bird
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IB
, well-known Victorian lady traveller, is remembered primarily for her adventures in Canada, America, the Near East, and Asia. During her many travels she kept diaries and wrote letters to her sister Henrietta...
