Author profiles

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Sylvia Pankhurst

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SP , socialist feminist, was a prodigiously energetic writer, battling in print for most of the first half of the twentieth century for causes like the struggle for women's emancipation, the improvement of work and...
Sylvia Pankhurst Black and white, half-length photograph of Sylvia Pankhurst, standing looking into the camera, holding a thin book. Her hair is centre-parted and loosely pulled back; she wear a long skirt and a top with long sleeves and embossed detail.

Mollie Panter-Downes

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Mollie Panter-Downes specialized in wartime journalism for the New Yorker magazine, but she also wrote travel articles, reviews, poetry, novels, short stories, and children's literature. From 1938 to 1987, her contributions to the New Yorker...

Julia Pardoe

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The most common topics of Julia Pardoe 's writings were: Turkey, Hungary, French royalty, and fiction featuring women and marriage. Her prolific output in the early and middle years of Victoria's reign includes: three historical...
Julia Pardoe Photo of a sketch of Julia Pardoe by John Lilley, 1849. Only her face is drawn in detail, with her neck and shoulders merely suggested. She is in semi-profile, with her hair in dark gleaming ringlets.

Elizabeth Mary Parker

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EMP is among the few working-class women writers of the Victorian period to have reached print in volume form, with a romance novel.

Emma Parker

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EP is a skilled though obscure novelist and essayist publishing in the 1810s, whose works were well received and have much to offer today's reader. She was articulately concerned about the craft of novel-writing, and...
Emma Parker Title-page of Emma Parker's novel "The Guerilla Chief", 1815, vol. 1, with quote from Mary Russell Mitford.

Mary Ann Parker

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MAP 's single publication is a travel book of 1795, remarkable for being the only early female account of circumnavigating the globe, and the earliest reporting by a woman on the new English colony in Australia.

Bessie Rayner Parkes

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Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc) , a late nineteenth-century feminist, focused her writings especially on issues relating to women's work. During her life she published a collection of miscellaneous essays, a collection of vignettes, numerous...
Bessie Rayner Parkes Sepia toned photograph of Bessie Rayner Parkes, seated on an upholstered chair, with an ornate table next to her. Her hands are clasped in her lap, she is wearing a dark dress with a voluminous skirt and long sleeves. She has dark, wavy, shoulder-length hair.

Katherine Parr

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KP 's interventions in national and ecclesiastical history in the earlier sixteenth century, at the time of the Reformation (which were more far-reaching than has often been recognised), rested on her skill in writing and...
Katherine Parr Photograph of half-length portrait of Katherine Parr, painted on wood by an unknown artist. shown from the waist up. She wears a red dress with full sleeves, lavish gold stitching, and white frills at the cuff and standing collar. With this go three gold rings and a heavy gold necklace with pearls and gems. Her brown hair is covered by a white, pearl-edged headpiece and a soft black hat with gold stitching, a tassel, and a white feather. Her name is written in gold next to her face: "Katherine Parre". Natio

Susanna Parr

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SP was a religious apologist and polemicist: that is, once only, in 1659, when provoked by personal controversy within her former Independent congregation, she put an assertive self-defence in print.

Eliza Parsons

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Writing for money in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, EP produced about twenty novels comprising (she said) sixty-five volumes, which may have been reckoned to include her play and six volumes of novels...
Eliza Parsons Title-page of Eliza Parsons's novel "Woman as She Should Be, or Memoirs of Mrs. Menville", 1793, vol. 1 (of 4).

George Paston

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George Paston (Emily Morse Symonds) began her writing career as a novelist in the 1890s, but from 1900 turned her attention to writing biographies, histories, and drama, many of which reflect her fascination with the...

Walter Pater

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Mrs F. C. Patrick

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Mrs. F. C. Patrick appears to have been an Irishwoman living in England. She published three novels—each unusual in itself and markedly different from the other two—in three successive years during the 1790s.

Frances Mary Peard

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FMP published more than forty books between 1867 and 1909, mostly domestic novels and short-story volumes. Much of her fiction is historical and much is set abroad; some is specifically aimed at younger readers. Many...

Sarah Pearson

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SP began placing poetry in magazines in the late 1780s, and went on to publish two collections, the first political-reformist and sentimental, and the second lighter in tone. She was also the author of a...

Winifred Peck

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During her extended career in the earlier half of the twentieth century, WP published twenty-five books—mainly novels, with history, biography, a children's book, and two volumes of memoirs—as well as individual stories and girls' school...

Mary Peisley

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MP was less of an author, either in spirit or practice, than her friend and associate Catherine Phillips , yet writing was an important part of her brief but highly successful career in the mid...

Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

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Mary Sidney wrote with a generation of Protestant women models behind her.
Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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But her reputation, even her literary existence, has been eclipsed by the almost mythic fame of her brother Philip. He was older...
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Circular watercolour miniature of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1590. She is wearing a black gown with roses and honeysuckle embroidered on the bodice, multiple necklaces, and a fashionable cartwheel ruff which almost fills the frame. Her short blonde curls are topped with honeysuckle and lace. National Portrait Gallery.

Mary Penington

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Written expression in connection with her religious life was vital to MP from her childhood. She wrote prayers and letters, and began amassing by stages a series of autobiographical writings in the Quaker tradition. She...