Under two successive pseudonyms, Elizabeth Thomas
, was both novelist and poet. Late in life she explained that during her youth, in the days of the great Romantics, publishing poetry took more confidence than she...
Flora Thompson
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FT
, who wrote in the early to mid twentieth century, had limited education and lived outside the literary mainstream. She had little success as a poet or novelist, but built herself a career as...
Alice Thornton
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AT
is well known as a Restoration-period autobiographer whose several successive books of Meditations and Transactions of [her] life,
Anselment, Raymond A. “Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Sources of Alice Thornton’s Life”. SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol.
45
, No. 1, 2005, pp. 135-55.
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while predominantly and earnestly religious in tone, also give a vivid and often horrifying account...
KCT
, often forgotten today, was a highly popular and successful writer of short stories and novels at the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1904, she was propelled to literary fame and fortune with...
Among the oeuvre of MT
, Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, her long narrative allegory, Psyche, gives her a high place among the women Romantics. Her known oeuvre has excitingly expanded in...
HET
was a nineteenth-century poet of religious, historical, and domestic subjects; she also published a single novel.
Annie Tinsley
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AT
began as a poet and was forced by financial need to become a novelist and short-story writer. The antiquarian Henry Peet
lists thirteen principal works; others appeared in local periodicals, and some are untraced.
Elizabeth Tipper
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ET
, an obscure late-seventeenth-century writer, was an accomplished poet (as her single collection shows) and worked for John Dunton
as a regular periodical contributors: that is, a journalist.
Elizabeth Tollet
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ET
is an under-appreciated and versatile poet of the earlier eighteenth century, whose oeuvre occupies a substantial volume. Her poetic genres include epistles to friends, occasional verse, pastoral, religious and philosophical poetry, classical translation, metrical...
Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
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EST
published four novels and a (collaborative) book of poems during the last two decades of the eighteenth century. She was also said to have written translation and contributions to periodicals.
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
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CET
was a prolific writer of poems, novels, children's books and religious tracts during the early nineteenth century, as well as a periodical editor. She was extremely popular in her day as a didactic author...
Writing in the later twentieth century, ST
turned a satirical eye on social structures like the British class system, but her writing always had the aim of making people laugh. She began as a dramatist...
CPT
, sister of the writers Elizabeth
and Agnes Strickland
and Susanna Moodie
, is best known for her naturalist writing about nineteenth-century Upper Canada. She was a letter-writer widely respected and eventually rewarded for...
AT
was a mid-seventeenth-century prophetic writer who published six tracts having strong sectarian and political import: expressing and even shaping the views of her Fifth Monarchist
sect. Some of her printed works were taken down...
PLT
, poet, editor, essayist, critic, travel writer, and novelist, who was born in Australia but wrote mostly in England, is best known for her Mary Poppins books, generally classified as for children. All her...
RT
(with ten titles of her own, besides contributions to joint works) was said to be the most prolific Quaker pamphleteer, theologist, and polemicist of the Restoration period after Margaret Fell
.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
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Iris Tree
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Twentieth-century poet IT
published three volumes of poetry in her twenties and thirties and a long poem in her old age. Her poems also appeared in verse anthologies, most notably Edith Sitwell
's Wheels...
Viola Tree
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Best known for her acting career, which began in the early years of the twentieth century and ended in the thirties, VT
was also an opera singer and a theatre manager. She published an autobiography...
Though VT
is best known to literary history as a lover of English writer and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West
, she wrote and published in a range of genres throughout her life, which spanned much of...
RT
is a contemporary novelist and short-story writer whose first book was a history of the feminist movement in Britain. She teaches creative writing, and she has also published fiction for young people, plays for...
