Author profiles

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Sir Richard Steele

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Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein concerned herself with problems of identity, knowledge, consciousness, and language. In a period of modernist experiment, she became famous as a radically innovative avant-gardist. Her experimental imagination played around with the generic requirements...
Gertrude Stein Black and white photo of Gertude Stein taken by Carl Van Vechten in early 1935. She is standing in front of an American flag, wearing a dark jacket and pale scarf.

G. B. Stern

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GBS , who was writing through a large stretch of the twentieth century, published over forty novels of a middle-brow character, as well as light plays, short stories, informal criticism, and haphazard autobiographical memoirs. Her...
G. B. Stern Colour, head-and-shoulders drawing of G. B. Stern, wearing a white cap and a black scarf. The edges of her image fade into the white background. The image was likely used on a pre-war cigarette card.

Laurence Sterne

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Anne Stevenson

AS is an important contemporary poet, an heir to both the US and the British traditions. She experimented with drama and fiction early in her career. She writes fine criticism, and has edited the poems...
Anne Stevenson Photograph of Anne Stevenson, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a collared shirt, made of multicoloured velvet fabric that blends dark blue, red, and green. She is wearing wire rimmed glasses and a necklace made of copper-coloured metal, and large red stones. Her hair is jaw length and grey.

Mary Stewart

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MS , who began publishing in the mid 1950s, won great success as an author of popular romance thrillers (a genre whose invention her Guardian obituary chalks up to her)
Hore, Rachel. “Mary Stewart obituary”. theguardian.com, 15 May 2014.
and of Arthurian historical novels...

Elizabeth Stirredge

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ES was one of the best-known Quaker pamphleteers and religious autobiographers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. She was also known in her own localities as an outstanding preacher.

Mary Stockdale

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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century MS (daughter and sister of publishers, and a publisher herself) issued two collections of poetry (one including a short autobiography), besides individual poems, and several books for...

Elizabeth Stone

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Elizabeth Stone published several novels during the 1840s and 50s, including early Condition of England novels. She continued to publish in her other chosen genres (social history and religious books) for another two decades. Despite...

Sarah Stone

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SS , a practising midwife who wrote and published in 1737, late in her career, is also a fine writer of polemic (her preface is a tirade against the theoretically educated young men who were...

Charlotte Stopes

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CS was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare . In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely...
Charlotte Stopes Black-and-white photo of Charlotte Stopes, 1953. Looking off-camera, she is against a tree fabric background and has her arms crossed over what could be a table top. She wears a hat with a feather in it.

Marie Stopes

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MS was best known for her early-twentieth-century writing on motherhood and birth control, and for her strong commitment to educating women in the practice of contraception. In order to communicate detailed instructions on topics that...
Marie Stopes Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Marie Stopes, c. 1918. She has short curly hair, and wears a dress with dark sleeves and broad white collar, a necklace of large beads, and a white Panama-style hat with a dark bow.

Lesley Storm

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In a writing career that spanned forty-three years of the twentieth century, LS produced seventeen plays, eleven novels, seven film-scripts, and a volume of short stories. Many of her plays turn on the subjects of...

Mary Stott

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MS is best known as a later twentieth-century feminist journalist and specifically as editor of The Guardian women's page. She is also worthy of notice for her own various non-fiction writing, in essays, monographs, and...

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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HBS is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a...
Harriet Beecher Stowe Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She is seated, wearing a dark dress with long, wide sleeves, buttons up the front, and a high, ruffled collar. She holds a pair of small spectacles in her hands and her fair, short, curly hair looks unbrushed.

Julia Strachey

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JS published two novels and several pieces of short fiction during her lifetime, in the mid twentieth century. Frances Partridge writes in her introduction to JS 's memoir that when she died, after a long...

Ray Strachey

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Though RS published three novels between 1907 and 1927 (and a volume of history in collaboration with her husband ), most of her writing is non-fictional and reflects her deep commitment to women's suffrage, women's...

Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore

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MEBCS , an upper-class eighteenth-century eccentric, has been famous chiefly as a marital victim. But her writings (both her tragedy and her highly imaginative autobiography) reflect some literary skill, as well as a highly unusual...
Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of an oval painting of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, by an unknown artist. She has a large, folded white collar with black fringes, and her powderedhair is in high, tight curls.

Noel Streatfeild

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NS published over five decades of the twentieth century, from the 1930s. Arguably all but seventeen of her sixty-four books were aimed at children. (Some books are classified both ways.) Her adult novels are notable...
Noel Streatfeild Black-and-white photo of Noel Streatfeild, November 1972. Smiling and looking directly at the camera, she is wearing a floral top, standing against a bookshelf, and holding copy of her book Ballet Shoes.

Hesba Stretton

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HS was a prolific writer, who during the later nineteenth century produced nearly sixty works of fiction for children and adults, several works of non-fiction, and numerous contributions to a variety of different periodicals. Renowned...
Hesba Stretton Black and white photograph of Hesba Stretton, seated, with her arm resting on the ornately tasseled arm of her chair. She is plainly dressed in a floor-length dark dress, with buttons up the front and long puff sleeves. Her dark hair is parted in the centre and pulled back tightly; her gaze is straight ahead.