Author profiles

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Elizabeth Rigby

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As an art historian, journalist, and public figure, ER played a major role in shaping modern art criticism. Many of her publications introduced readers and artists to new influences from German art, while others confirmed...
Elizabeth Rigby Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Rigby, seated, with her hands clasped in her lap. She is wearing a simple light dress with a long, full skirt, and a dark scarf wrapped around her shoulders. She is wearing small dark gloves with white trim at the wrists, and her dark hair is pulled back, with a braid pulled across the top of her head and another braid wrapped at the side of head.

Joan Riley

JR , born in Jamaica and living from her student days in England, began publishing in the 1980s. She has dealt with the experience of uprooting and resettlement in four novels, a number of short...
Joan Riley Black-and-white close-up portrait of Joan Riley, in which she wears dreadlocks and a dark shirt, 11 February 1997.

Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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ATR produced, mostly during the later nineteenth century, twenty-one books of fiction, essays, and literary memoirs.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
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Her biographical prefaces to her famous father 's novels are best known, but she was also a major...
Anne Thackeray Ritchie Black and white photograph of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, seated and staring peacefully off into the distance. She is wearing a white dress with puffed shoulders, long sleeves, details of lace, ruffles, and a flower at the neckline, and a pearl button fastening the waistband. She has a stack of pearl necklaces around her neck, her dark hair is pulled into a bun and fastened with a metal pin, and she holds flowers in her hands.

Jane Robe

JR , about whom nothing is known, was the author of a single tragedy, translated from the French, performed and published in 1723.

Emma Roberts

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Emma Roberts , a professional writer of the earlier nineteenth century, launched her career with history and contributions to periodicals. Travelling to India provided her with the unusual opportunity to become a specialist on that...

Margaret Roberts

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MR wrote from youth until old age, mostly during the later nineteenth century. She usually remained anonymous, though she did eventually give permission to the firm of Tauchnitz to put her name on some of...

Michèle Roberts

MR began to write during the later twentieth century: diaries, journalism, and collaborative scenarios and improvisations, for street theatre in connection with the burgeoning women's movement of the 1970s. She has had a few plays...

Radagunda Roberts

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In the twenty years from 1763, RR published four significant translations from French (all but one of them fiction). She contributed tales in both prose and poetry to The Lady's Magazine, and issued a...

E. Arnot Robertson

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During the middle decades of the twentieth century, EAR published nine novels (the last one posthumously), as well as shorter fiction, a work of topography and one of naval history, and a book for children...

Elizabeth Robins

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ER 's political commitment to feminism is evident throughout her plays, novels, travel writing, and essays, in which she addresses issues ranging from women's suffrage to the rest cure and white slave trade. Through much...
Elizabeth Robins Black and white photograph of Elizabeth Robins, seated, with one arm resting on the arm of her chair and the other in her lap. She is wearing a dark dress with a high collar and long sleeves, both of which are trimmed with fur, a tall, spreading dark hat probably of feathers, and a long silver chain.

A. Mary F. Robinson

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AMFR 's long career occupied the late decades of nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. It spanned two countries, England and France, and two languages, English and French. Robinson was generally...

Emma Robinson

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Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, ER published anonymously a series of historical novels (which she called romances, but which deliberately blur the boundary between history and fiction) and two plays. She also published short stories...

F. Mabel Robinson

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FMR published six novels during the 1880s and 1890s that are daring both in subject-matter and handling, broaching such topics as women's status, seduction, and illegitimacy. She also produced a political history of Ireland and...

Isabella Hamilton Robinson

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IHR 's diary acquired notoriety after it was found to contain details of her relationship with a younger, married doctor and after it was made public in the Divorce Court (at a moment when divorce...

Mary Robinson

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MR , scandalous woman and Romantic poet, was also a forceful and emotional, radical writer in many other genres: novels, scholarship, memoirs, drama, periodical essays, and translation. During the last two years of her life...
Mary Robinson Glamorous painting of Mary Robinson, attributed to John Hoppner. She wears a black hat with wide drooping brim, adorned with white ostrich feathers which echo her big-style powdered hair. Her gown is black with lace at the low neckline and a red rose on the sleeve, echoing red drapery behind her.

Regina Maria Roche

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RMR had great success as a popular Irish novelist and leading Minerva Press author, using her own name and often listing her previous titles. She also published a couple of novellas, though most of the...

Margaret Roper

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MR , though she is still known to history primarily as her father's daughter, was celebrated during her early-sixteenth-century lifetime for her letters and her translation of a theological treatise by Desiderius Erasmus .
Margaret Roper Head and shoulders of Margaret Roper, part of a More family-group painting commissioned by a later generation from Rowland Lockey, based on an original by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1593, which does not survive. Roper wears a dark red and black gown, several strings of beads, and a gable hood decorated with pearl trim and gold stitching. National Portrait Gallery.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

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AMKR 's characteristic style is one of finely tooled alliteration. She meant this style to be taken seriously, but it has led to her being anthologised frequently in books of bad writing. Active at the...

Catharine Colace Ross

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CCR , who flourished in Scotland during the late seventeenth century, is known as a spiritual autobiographer; in fact the contents of her Memoirs show that throughout her lifetime she used writing as a tool...