KS
is best known for her novels, which engage with political and aesthetic complexities of Pakistani culture. She also contributes short stories to anthologies of both British and Pakistani fiction. Her writing frequently examines topics...
JS
is a poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, who has also published anthologies, verse for music, and a book of critical prose based on a lecture series.
Evelyn Sharp
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ES
, whose career occupied the end of the nineteenth century and the first several decades of the twentieth, wrote books for children, journalism, polemic (on behalf of suffragist, internationalist, pacifist, and other movements), novels...
JS
, who published in 1671, stands in a line of militant midwife-writers, close to Elizabeth Cellier
before her and followed after a longer lapse of time by Elizabeth Nihell
. Like theirs, her text is proto-feminist.
FS
is best known as a journalist with strong views on imperialism, who influenced both official policy and the British public through her position as colonial editor for the Times. She believed that journalism...
GBS
was a drama critic who called for reform of theatrical practice, and a dramatist who attached to his plays on publication, lengthy prefaces expounding the social and dramatic issues opened by the play itself...
Hester Shaw
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HS
, a wealthy London businesswoman (midwife and moneylender) in the mid-sixteenth century, published either two or three pamphlets attacking the minister of her church: not on religious grounds but in a quarrel over property.
Mary Shelley
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MS
, long known almost exclusively for Frankenstein, is now being read for her later novels and her plays, as well as for her journals and letters. Her editing, reviewing, biographical, and journalistic work...
PBS
is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
Nan Shepherd
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NS
, a Scotswoman, published between 1928 and 1934 three novels and a volume of poems. A volume of nature-writing or memoir about her relationship with the Cairngorm mountains proved unacceptable during the 1940s, and...
Frances Sheridan
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FS
was a novelist and dramatist whose adult writing career was cut short after less than seven years. She was a leading practitioner of the eighteenth-century sentimental novel. She also wrote poetry.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Mary Martha Sherwood
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MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
CS
, an American-born Canadian novelist of the twentieth century, a low-key but passionate feminist, published a collection of poetry as her first book. Her earliest novel features as minor character a novelist whose stock-in-trade...
ES
wrote but did not publish what seems to be the earliest female biography in English to be written as a memoir of someone known and loved, although it is also, as the life of...
Emily Shirreff
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ES
lived and wrote during the mid-nineteenth century. She was a keen educationalist, and many of her writings were essays, tracts, and pamphlets in which she argued the need for an improved education system. These...
Arabella Shore
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AS
was a poet, translator, and occasional critic who died at the end of the nineteenth century. Like her sister Louisa Catherine
, she was chiefly interested in public and national topics.
Louisa Catherine Shore
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LCS
was a poet writing primarily on public and national topics during the later nineteenth century. She published mostly in company with her sister Arabella
, though her one verse-drama appeared alone.
Margaret Emily Shore
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MES
, who died in her twentieth year in 1839, became known for precocious writing in several genres: poetry, short fiction, science writing, and—the best-known of her works and almost all that survives—the diary of...