SW
made her high-profile literary debut in 1998 with her first lesbian historical novel, Tipping the Velvet (which had been rejected by many publishers before it reached print). Her novels since then have been all...
RMW
published under several names during the later nineteenth and early twentieth century seven volumes of poetry, one novel, some articles, and many literary reviews. She edited Sylvia's Journal, as well as several other...
Susanna Watts
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SW
wrote all her life (during the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries): mostly in unfashionable genres, to earn much-needed income and to forward good causes. She pictured herself as a slave to publishers, fagging...
Evelyn Waugh
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EW
was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He...
Harriet Shaw Weaver
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HSW
wrote reviews and leaders for the influential little magazine The Egoist while she was its editor. She wrote historical surveys of philosophical concepts of time and space, but neither of these was ever published...
Beatrice Webb
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An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society
and of the Labour Party
), BW
wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...
MW
became very well known in the early twentieth century as a poetic regional novelist. She also wrote poetry, essays, short stories, and reviews. Her subject-matter is a rural past of love, violence, beauty and...
AW
wrote poetry, two novels (one for children), drama, and journalism, including book reviews and criticism, in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Despite her translations from and imaginative interpretations of classical literature, her...
JW
began by publishing novels, but her father opposed it. She turned to writing about social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the day. Her private letters to Robert Browning
are notable for their literary and...
Ellen Weeton
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EW
is remarkable as a letter-writer, diarist, and autobiographer. She also wrote reviews, poems, and essays.
Fay Weldon
Internationally acclaimed as a novelist, playwright and essayist, FW
is a prolific writer whose work ranges over many genres and media, and in 2017 amounted to thirty-four novels, seven short-story volumes, three books for children...
DW
, writing in the earlier twentieth century, published a dozen volumes of poetry. She was also an editor of contemporary poetry, a letter-writer, critic, biographer and autobiographer. Her association first with the Hogarth Press
H. G. Wells
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HGW
began writing in his childhood and publishing just before the close of the nineteenth century. He was a journalist, novelist, historian and autobiographer, whose favourite fictional genres are science fiction on one hand and...
Helena Wells
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HW
, a late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century novelist and conduct-writer brought up in the slave-owning society of the American South, is a conservative with some feminist concerns.
Eudora Welty
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EW
published five novels or novellas, as well as essays, memoirs, poetry, and a book for children, but her short stories are her most admired works. Her work spans the last forty years of the...
Agnes, Lady Wenman
, a Catholic gentlewoman who married an Anglican in the later years of Queen Elizabeth
, left one identified text: a translation from French of a work of ancient history, written originally...
Anne Wentworth
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AW
, member of a Baptist
congregation, became a prophet in the 1670s. She addressed warnings of the wrath of God to the king and the Lord Mayor of London, and published two prophecies of...
Patricia Wentworth
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PW
began her writing career early in the twentieth century with half a dozen historical novels and romances and went on to achieve great popularity with between sixty and seventy thrillers, mysteries, and detective novels...
Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW
, an American-born European who writes for the British stage, is an experimental dramatist, adaptor, translator, and radio dramatist. Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking...
MW
won some notoriety by beginning her writing career proper at the age of seventy, when she published her first novel for adults. After this she kept up for some time the rate of one...