JT
, an Irish-born, mid-Victorian writer who lived most of her life in Bavaria, wrote four novels. Her work was often praised for its descriptions of the Bavarian landscape and people—both upper-class and peasant—who inhabited it.
Having borne and educated a remarkable family of precocious authors, AMT
followed her daughters Ann
and Jane
and her son Isaac
into print in 1814, and produced a series of conduct books and a volume...
ET
published, during the mid to late twentieth century, twelve novels, four collections of short stories, and a handful of essays. As a writer of high calibre whose favourite effects are built on understatement and...
Harriet Taylor
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HT
wrote a number of essays, reviews, poems, and articles on a wide range of subjects, but is most remembered for her contributions to Victorian liberal feminist debate. She also collaborated with John Stuart Mill
HT
wrote essays on suffrage and other feminist issues in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She also edited several volumes of work by others, often providing biographical sketches and introductions.
JT
, a writer of poems for children when she was little more than a child herself, saw herself in adulthood as first and foremost a Christian writer, seeking to change the lives of her...
A committed proponent of female economic independence, MT
was the author of some twenty articles on this and other feminist topics for Emily Faithfull
's Victoria Magazine during the 1860s and 1870s. Many of these...
Elizabeth Teft
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ET
was a poet of the earlier eighteenth century whose work suggests considerable independence of mind. Many of her poems are social or occasional; some are political.
Edith Templeton
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The fiction of ET
, novelist, short-story writer, and travel writer, acquired a high reputation for its force and distinctive style and tone, and notoriety for a degree of sexual explicitness rare in serious women...
At first a novelist (who later became a specialist in the...
Tabitha Tenney
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TT
, who lived in New England through the time of the American Revolution, published in 1799 (perhaps) and 1801, and lived for another thirty-six years apparently without further writerly activity, was the certain author...
Josephine Tey
was the pseudonym that Scottish writer Elizabeth Mackintosh used for her detective fiction, the genre for which she is now best known. Her other pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, was usually reserved for what she...
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Ann Thicknesse
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AT
was, it seems, an opportunistic writer. Already accustomed to earning money from publicly performing music, she published five titles in four decades from 1761 to 1800: a self-justifying scandal memoir, two music manuals, a...
GT
was a Roman Catholic poet of the mid seventeenth century with a powerful individual voice, dealing with the themes of family love, bereavement, and religious devotion. Her surviving poems number only nineteen.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Winefrid Thimelby
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Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century WT
expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of...
Angela Thirkell
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AT
, having already published journalism (some of it literary) and a family memoir, launched her career as a novelist in the 1930s (her own early forties) and continued publishing for nearly thirty years at...
DT
acquired instant fame as a very young man in the 1930s when his earliest poems were published. Throughout his short life he turned out journalistic hack work and reviews; as well as poetry he...
Elizabeth Thomas
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ET (dubbed Corinna by Dryden
and writing mostly in the early eighteenth century) was a poet of real stature and an interesting letter-writer. Her few authentic works have been upstaged by the many miscellaneous writings...
