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.
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...
Doreen Wallace
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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.
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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...
Mary Ward
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MW
, seventeenth-century religious reformer and founder of a religious Order, used her writings (letters, autobiography, prayers, notes, and speeches) as a means to forward her radical ecclesiastical administration. She also wrote devotional works for...
Best known for her influential loss-of-faith novel Robert Elsmere, MAW
was among the more prolific and popular novelists of the later Victorian and Edwardian periods. Her fifty-year career spanned an era of enormous transformation...
Anna Letitia Waring
, who published throughout the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth, was a hymn-writer, who also produced instructional tracts and poetry. Although she wrote from an early age right up until...
Marina Warner
MW
has produced countless articles, book introductions and reviews, twelve non-fictional monographs, two volumes of short stories, half-a dozen children's books, and five novels. She has also written books about artists, art exhibition catalogues, opera...
STW
once commented that her career in writing was an accidental one, as her initial career was in musicology. However, she was very prolific for more than fifty years of the twentieth century over a...
Elizabeth Warren
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EW
, active at the mid seventeenth century, is a learned writer who fills her three Puritan
theological pamphlets with strongly structured argument and with Latin notes and references in the margins. Her polemic has...
Mercy Otis Warren
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MOW
has been called First Lady of the American Revolution. She was its historian—the only writer to fill this role at an early date from anything like a revolutionary point of view—but she was also...
JW
tried her hand at various genres of literature during the later eighteenth century, without making any one her own. She published poetry, essays, conduct books, and a remarkable novel. She may have been an...
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
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Mary Rich
, writing during the later seventeenth century, is an introspective religious diarist and autobiographer, who uses words to make sense of her experiences.
EW
was a Scottish religious writer of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whose account of her spiritual struggles was not published until after her death.