SV
, a Scotswoman who lived the early part of her life abroad, was a varied and prolific author. Between the 1860s and 1890s she produced ten novels, a travel book, many journal articles (including...
Margaret Veley
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MV
's writing ranged from short and long fiction to poetry. During the 1870s and 1880s she published short stories for magazines, three novels, and a two-volume collection of stories. After her early death a...
Queen Victoria
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From a young age, Queen Victoria
wrote extensive journals, two of which were published with great success during her lifetime. Other selections from her journals, collections of her letters, and drawings and watercolours from her...
Linda Villari
's writing career spans the period from the early 1870s to the early 1900s. (She began it after the death of her first husband, Vincenzo Mazini
, in 1869.) She wrote novels, short...
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
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MCV
was one of the very few women to earn her living by her pen in France as early as the seventeenth century. She was productive in many genres, held a significant place in the...
JV
, a late-seventeenth-century Quaker
preacher, is best known for her autobiography; she also left letters addressed to individuals and epistles officially addressed to Quaker
communities.
Over the course of her career EA
wrote over twenty popular novels, some of which she adapted for the stage, and published her memoirs. Her bestselling first novel, Elizabeth and her German Garden (1898), brought...
Ethel Lilian Voynich
, née Boole, was an Irish-born musician, novelist, translator and revolutionary, publishing in the 1890s and the first half of the twentieth century. She is renowned for her first novel, The Gadfly...
HW
, an early twentieth-century scholar in the field of medieval studies and especially Latin verse, was the author of scholarly monographs and translations (from Chinese as well as Latin), and of plays, articles, reviews...
Priscilla Wakefield
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PW
's sixteen titles, begun at a time when she was past forty and spanning the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, were all published with the aim of improving the state of the world...
Lucy Walford
published more than forty-five books, primarily fiction (novels and short stories), as well as biographies and journalism over the final three decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. She...
AW
is an African-American writer and activist, who began publishing in the late 1960s and is best known for her novel The Color Purple. As well as other novels, she publishes or has published...
Writing in the late nineteenth century at first in Canada and later in England, ALW
produced six novels, two books of poetry, a volume of plays for children and several short stories. She was...
Elizabeth Walker
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EW
's writings, dating from the later seventeenth century, comprise diary entries, prayers, meditations, letters, memoirs of early life, writings about her husband, her children and herself, and religious advice designed for them.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Lady Mary Walker
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Writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, LMW
was a didactic novelist who cared for social issues and for personal morality, privileging the discussion of such issues and the communication of information over...
AW
, evidently a writer of some ability, is remarkable chiefly for the sensational nature of her single known text, which is the apparently autobiographical (though just possibly fictional) record of her survival of physical...
DW
published fifty-four books spanning 1918 to the 1970s, of which forty-five were novels,
Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989, 254 p.
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nearly all set in East Anglia and so sometimes ranked as regional. They contain enough romance to make them in...
Eglinton Wallace
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EW
's career in print spanned less than a decade. She began in 1787, with a published comedy and a contribution to the controversy over Goethe
's sentimental novel Werter a poem and a statement...
Horace Walpole
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Michelene Wandor
MW
is a prolific twentieth-century and contemporary writer of stage plays, radio drama, short stories, poetry, reviews, theatre criticism, and a co-authored novel. A passionate feminist, she became an energetic force in alternative theatre in...
