SLP
published advice books covering the social and personal behaviour of young women, childraising, and running an extensive household. Her second book is epistolary, and covers philosophical, religious, and moral topics as well as incorporating...
Mid-Victorian feminist EJP
published during the latter half of the nineteenth century. She composed three lengthy narrative poems, six volumes of other poetry, a work documenting her travels, a play, a work of prose fantasy...
In a prolific output filling the latter part of the nineteenth century, United States author ESP
explored a range of interests in her more than fifty fiction and non-fiction books and hundreds of magazine stories...
KP
, who wrote during the mid seventeenth century, may herself have valued her public more highly than her private ones. But she won lasting importance as a poet of passionate female friendship and as...
Writing in the late eighteenth century, CP
centred all her literary work on her Quaker
religion, yet both her poetry and prose also deal with secular politics. She wrote pamphlets, sermons, personal letters and formal...
Teresia Constantia Phillips
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TCP
is one of the best-known of the courtesan memoirists of the eighteenth century, though it is still not unanimously agreed that she wrote her own text. Her letter to Chesterfield
qualifies her as a...
Sarah, Lady Piers,
authored five known poems between 1698 and 1714. They include verses prefixed to another's work, an elegy, and two occasional celebrations: one of some admirable ladies and one a Whiggish poem celebrating...
Laetitia Pilkington
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The fame of the eighteenth-century Irishwoman LP
as a memoirist—often thought of as a courtesan memoirist and writer of secret history—has obscured her very considerable merit as a poet and satirist.
Winsome Pinnock
WP
is a contemporary Black British playwright, who writes for television and radio as well as the stage, and a teacher of creative writing. Her first play was produced in 1987.
Harold Pinter
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Best-known as one of the leading British playwrights of the later twentieth century and as a Nobel Prize winner, HP
was also a poet, actor, theatre director, and writer of radio plays and screenplays both...
Hester Lynch Piozzi
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Hester Lynch Thrale, later Hester Lynch Piozzi
, was by inclination and practice a woman of letters as well as a woman of the world. She loved recording facts and details; she was an incisive...
During a career that spanned the greater part of the twentieth century, RP
published eighteen collections of poetry. She left letters and a journal, and occasionally spoke or wrote on literary topics. Her admirers have...
Mary Pix
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MP
, writing and publishing at the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth, was the most prolific female playwright since Behn
. Her comedies, full of fun and acute observation...
Twentieth-century popular writer JP
wrote over 200 novels under seven different pseudonyms: some eighty-seven historical novels as Jean Plaidy, at least thirty-one gothic romances as Victoria Holt, and another nineteen historical romances as Philippa Carr...
Sylvia Plath
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SP
was primarily a poet, and most famously a confessional poet, although she also wrote a novel, a radio play, short stories and a book for children. She is best known for the poems she...
Romantic-era writer AP
's career shadowed that of her probably better-known sister Anne
; but after novels and translations she turned to domestic and children's literature instead of to travel and political writing.
Anne Plumptre
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AP
, Romantic-era writer, a radical in politics, produced four novels (one of them a tour de force, an epistolary novel of great power and subtlety), much translation (particularly radical plays), travel writings (including political...
CEP
wrote during the later nineteenth century on religious and philosophical issues. She authored five books and many periodical essays. She was especially interested in Pantheist philosophers, deliberately seeking out and championing persecuted and obscure...
