Writing during the early Restoration period, EP
left in manuscript two plays (a tragedy and a comedy), another work whose genre is unidentified but which may have been a masque, and probably a eulogistic poem.
Alexander Pope
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As well as being a translator, critic, and letter-writer, AP
was the major poetic voice of the earlier eighteenth century, an influence on almost everyone who wrote poetry during his lifetime or for some years...
EAP
is that rare thing, an early nineteenth-century woman writer of Romantic epic poems. Her personal letters are also outstanding.
Anna Maria Porter
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Though she also wrote poetry and other genres, AMP
's name rests on her almost thirty historical romances (totalling 54 volumes). Many had US editions and French translations. She tends to focus on male rather...
JP
was largely an early nineteenth-century author: though she reached print before the end of the previous century, she let her younger and more prolific sister get the start of her in publishing. She wrote...
BP
gained fame as a writer of little books for children, about animals which to some degree resemble humans, illustrated in watercolour by herself. Some of them draw on fable, riddles, and fairy stories. She...
EP
, American poet, critic, editor, translator, and key figure in the literary modernist movement, lived in London from 1908 to 1921, in Paris from 1921 to 1924, and then in Italy until the end...
Diana Primrose
DP
is an unidentified early seventeenth-century poet who calls herself a Noble Lady;
Primrose, Diana. “A Chaine of Pearle”. The Poets I, edited by Susanne Woods et al., Facsimile, Ashgate, 2001.
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she has royalist and some feminist ideas.
Mary Prince
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MP
, whose text was published in 1831 after she came to London from the Caribbean, became well-known as an early nineteenth-century writer of detailed slave autobiography.
AP
's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the...
French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.
SP
is a Welsh contemporary poet who has published nine volumes of poetry and translation, as well as two novels. Her poetry has a wide thematic reach both historical and geographical, and succeeds in making...
LHP
was a seventeenth-century poet of great skill and subtlety, whose work (transcribed into a handsome manuscript volume) remained unknown until recently because she published none of it. Her writing includes verse emblems and a...
Sally Purcell
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SP
was a twentieth-century poet of distinction (whose scholarly bent showed itself in an astonishing range of esoteric allusion) and a translator (mostly of poetry) from a virtuoso range of languages. She also edited books...
Barbara Pym
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BP
was a distinguished, understatedly comic novelist of the twentieth century, whose autobiographical writings (diaries, letters, and notebooks) were published only after her death.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
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Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
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Having achieved moderate success during her early career...
AR
is well known as the mistress par excellence of eighteenth-century Gothic fiction, the continuing tradition of which she strongly marked with the characteristics of her individual style. She also produced poetry, travel writing, and...
MAR
wrote her feminist tract The Female Advocate from personal indignation at women's inferior earning opportunities, and her Memoirs from a wish to tell the tale of her woes and struggles. The two are not...
Kathleen Raine
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KR
's lengthy, successful career as twentieth-century poet, autobiographer, essayist, critic, and translator, won her many awards in England and other countries. She called the writing of words (especially poetry) her greatest joy. Paradoxically, it...
